Dr Katrina Long is a mixed-method early career researcher with a background in healthcare implementation and evaluation research. Her current work at the Department, the OPTIMISE and PRACTIS projects, focuses on improving access to quality healthcare for people from refugee and limited English proficiency background.

Dr Long is passionate about generating and translating high quality research to make a difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians. To achieve this, she favours mixed methods, co-design and pragmatic approaches to intervention design and implementation. She is particularly interested in exploring issues of quality, access and stigma in mental health and primary health care, for young people, refugees and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Dr Long is currently offering the following student projects:

• The provision of Translation and Interpreting Services in Residential Aged Care Facilities
• Medication management with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) residents in Residential Aged Care Facilities – what could go wrong!
• Examining the impact of staff language barriers in the provision of quality care in residential aged care facilities
• Improving the provision of Translation and Interpreting Services in community aged care