Ivers, Rowena

Research Areas

Research Overview

Ass Professor Ivers is a mid-career academic, who is an active clinician, working as a general practitioner in Aboriginal health. She has also trained as a public health physician. Her research interests includes tobacco, alcohol and cancer prevention, with a focus on Aboriginal health. She is also involved in health systems and medical education research.

Geographic Focus

Illawarra Shoalhaven region Geographic Region

Available as Research Supervisor

Available for Collaborative Projects

Member Of

Coordinare Primary Health Network Member, Clinical Council 2018 -
RACGP Member, National Research Ethics Committee 2018 -
RACGP Member, NSW Council 2018 -
RACGP Member, National Quality Committee 2018 -
AAAPC Member 2015 -
RACGP Member 1996 -

Clinical Activities

Visiting Medical Officer Forensics, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District 2016 -
General Practice/ Family Medicine Illawarra Aboriginal Medical Service 2003 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Development of a COVID-19 virtual community of practice in New South Wales Published In Australian Journal of General Practice
2022	Ethical considerations regarding the use of pooled data from electronic health records in general practice Published In Australian Journal of General Practice
2022	Factors that influence women's decision on infant feeding: An integrative review Published In Women and Birth
2022	Low back pain in people aged 60 years and over Published In The BMJ
2022	Ngununggula: The story of a cancer care team for aboriginal people Published In International Journal of Whole Person Care
2022	Systematic review of guidelines for managing physical health during treatment for substance use disorders: Implications for the alcohol and other drug workforce Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2021	A Delphi yarn: applying Indigenous knowledges to enhance the cultural utility of SMART Recovery Australia Published In Addiction Science and Clinical Practice
2021	A multi-methods yarn about SMART Recovery: First insights from Australian Aboriginal facilitators and group members Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2021	Facilitators and barriers to integrating physical health care during treatment for substance use: A socio-ecological analysis Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2021	Support can increase use of the AUDIT-C in Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: a cluster randomized trial Published In Addiction
2020	Review of online breastfeeding information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women Published In Women and Birth
2020	Substance Use and Co-occurring Physical Health Problems: File Review of a Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service Published In Journal of Dual Diagnosis
2020	What patients want to ask their doctors: Data analysis from Question Builder, an online question prompt list tool Published In Patient Education and Counseling
2019	Home to health care to hospital: Evaluation of a cancer care team based in Australian Aboriginal primary care Published In Australian Journal of Rural Health
2019	Supporting Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to deliver alcohol care: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial Published In BMJ Open
2019	Systematic review of addiction recovery mutual support groups and Indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States of America and Hawaii Published In Addictive Behaviors
2018	Managing your withdrawal from alcohol at home Published In Medicine Today
2018	Standardised alcohol screening in primary health care services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia Published In Addiction Science and Clinical Practice
2018	Treating alcohol dependence: Managing withdrawal and preventing relapse Published In Medicine Today
2017	Healing at Home: Developing a Model for Ambulatory Alcohol “Detox” in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service Published In International Journal of Indigenous Health
2017	Healing at home: Developing a model for ambulatory alcohol "detox" in an Aboriginal community controlled health service Published In International Journal of Indigenous Health
2017	Patients’ attitudes towards chaperone use for intimate physical examinations in general practice Published In Australian Family Physician
2016	A circle of silence: the attitudes of patients older than 65 years of age to ceasing long-term sleeping tablets Published In Sports Medicine
2016	Which direction should Australian health system reform be heading? Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2015	Lifting the burden: A coordinated approach to action on Aboriginal tobacco resistance and control in NSW Published In Public Health Research and Practice
2015	Should naltrexone be the first-line medicine to treat alcohol dependence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations? An Australian perspective Published In Australian Family Physician
2014	Outpatient alcohol withdrawal management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Published In Australian Family Physician
2013	Addressing high rates of smoking in remote aboriginal communities: new evidence for GPs Published In Australian Family Physician
2012	Translation of tobacco policy into practice in disadvantaged and marginalized subpopulations: A study of challenges and opportunities in remote Australian Indigenous communities Published In Health Research Policy and Systems
2011	Can we measure daily tobacco consumption in remote Indigenous communities? Comparing self-reported tobacco consumption with community-level estimates in an Arnhem Land study Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2011	Smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical activity interventions targeting Indigenous Australians: rigorous evaluations and new directions needed Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2010	Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? Published In Medical Journal of Australia
2010	Brief intervention resource kits for Indigenous Australians: generally evidence-based, but missing important components Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2010	Using breath carbon monoxide to validate self-reported tobacco smoking in remote Australian Indigenous communities Published In Population Health Metrics
2009	Disseminating best-evidence health-care to Indigenous health-care settings and programs in Australia: identifying the gaps Published In Health Promotion International
2008	Tobacco and aboriginal people in NSW. Published In New South Wales public health bulletin
2006	Evaluation of a multi-component community tobacco intervention in three remote Australian aboriginal communities Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2006	The role of remote community stores in reducing the harm resulting from tobacco to Aboriginal people Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2006	Where there's smoke, there's fire: High prevalence of smoking among some sub-populations and recommendations for intervention Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2005	Television and delivery of health promotion programs to remote Aboriginal communities. Published In Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
2004	An evidence-based approach to planning tobacco interventions for Aboriginal people Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2003	A review of tobacco interventions for indigenous Australians Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2003	A study of the use of free nicotine patches by Indigenous people Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2003	Aboriginal and torres strait islander Australians and tobacco Published In Tobacco Control
2002	An evaluation of tobacco brief intervention training in three Indigenous health care settings in north Queensland Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2002	Tobacco addiction and the process of colonisation Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2000	Cannabis: A trojan horse for nicotine? Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Chapter

Year	Title
2006	Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease Published In Comprehensive Management of High Risk Cardiovascular Patients Publisher Informa Healthcare
2006	Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease Published In Comprehensive Management of High Risk Cardiovascular Patients Publisher Taylor & Francis

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2014	Another pair of eyes in the room: do patients want a chaperone for intimate examinations? Published In 2014 Primary Health Care Research Conference: Program & Abstracts
2014	The attitude of patients over 65yrs to ceasing long term sleeping tablets Published In 2014 Primary Health Care Research Conference: Program & Abstracts
2013	Chaperones for Pap smears: do Australian GPs offer or use them? Published In 2013 PHC Research Conference Abstracts
2009	Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? Published In Proceedings of the Third International Clinical skills Conference
2009	Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? Published In 2009 General Practice Education and Training Convention

Other Publications

Year	Title
2015	Sleeping tablet study: The attitude of patients over 65 years to ceasing long term sleeping tablets
2013	Australian patients’ attitudes toward chaperone use for intimate physical examinations in general practice

Featured In

Illawarra Mercury News Story News Release

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Aboriginal people with cancer to access evidence based care: developing a manual and training package in use for workers in primary care to support cancer care Awarded by: Cancer Australia Funding Scheme: Supporting people with cancer
2021	COMFORT: Clinical Observation, Management, and Function Of low back pain Relief Therapies Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies
2008	Evaluation of the Timor Leste Tobacco Project Awarded by: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Funding Scheme: Grant
	Peer support for breastfeeding for Aboriginal women Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: Preventative and Public Health Research

Other Research Activities

UOW Continuity grant, Preventing reincarceration in Aboriginal people $8K Chief Investigator 2019 -
NHMRC Optimise Study Senior Research Fellow 2018 -
NHMRC Increasing uptake of evidence-based management of unhealthy alcohol use in Aboriginal primary health care services $2.3M Chief Investigator 2016 -
Cancer Australia Suporting People with Cancer $120K Chief Investigator 2019 - 2021
CRE Indigenous Health and Alcohol $2.5M Chief Investigator 2016 - 2021
NHMRC Indigenous community action for smoking cessation $1.2 Chief Investigator 2007 - 2012
AHMRC tobacco project BREATHE (ARC/ Cancer Council) $700K Chief Investigator 2003 - 2008
NHMRC Tobacco programs for indigenous people in the Northern Territory $49.6K Chief Investigator 1999 - 2001

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Aboriginal health
Alcohol
Tobacco
Primary Health Care
Prevention
Cancer care for Aboriginal people

Teaching Activities

Phase 3, Postgraduate Medicine, UOW Chair of Phase 2019 -

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Efficacy, Acceptability, Feasibility and Level of Person-centred Care of a Radiation Oncology Follow-up Model of Care in General Practice	Sandell, Tiffany
Doctor of Philosophy	Breastfeeding: what's stopping women and how can they be supported?	Thorne, Beck

Reviewer Of

ANZ J Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Journal Article) 2019 -
Drug and Alcohol Review (Journal Article) 2015 -
Australian Journal of Primary Health (Journal Article) 2010 -
Australian Journal of Rural Health (Journal Article) 2010 -
Medical Journal of Australia (Journal Article) 2010 -
Australian Journal Of General Practice (Journal) 2000 -
ANZJPH (Journal Article) 1999 -

Organizer Of Event

PHAA National Conference 1999, Darwin 1999

Education And Training

RANZCOG 1997 -
Institute of Company Directors 2016
Charles Darwin University 1999 - 2002
University of Sydney, School of Public Health 1997 - 1998
UNSW, School of Medicine 1985 - 1991
RACP-AFPHM 2002
RACGP, RACGP 1994 - 1997

Awards And Honors

RACGP Chris Silagy Award, conferred by RACGP

Teaching Overview

Ass Prof Rowena Ivers has been involved in the UOW Graduate Medicine program since its inception, as an honorary clinician, and since 2019, as a staff academic.
She has been involved in medical education for over 20 years, for medical students and medical registrars, and has previously worked as a medical educator for GP Synergy and Coast City Country and has been an examiner for both RACGP and RACP/AFPHM.
She is Chair of Phase 3 in the medical program, overseeing medical students based in primary care and ED across NSW. She supervises MD research projects, Honours research projects, MPH projects and at PhD level.

Keywords

Medical education
Aboriginal health

Full Name

Rowena Ivers

Research Areas

Research Overview

Ass Professor Ivers is a mid-career academic, who is an active clinician, working as a general practitioner in Aboriginal health. She has also trained as a public health physician. Her research interests includes tobacco, alcohol and cancer prevention, with a focus on Aboriginal health. She is also involved in health systems and medical education research.

Geographic Focus

Illawarra Shoalhaven region Geographic Region

Member Of

Coordinare Primary Health Network Member, Clinical Council 2018 -
RACGP Member, National Research Ethics Committee 2018 -
RACGP Member, NSW Council 2018 -
RACGP Member, National Quality Committee 2018 -
AAAPC Member 2015 -
RACGP Member 1996 -

Clinical Activities

Visiting Medical Officer Forensics, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District 2016 -
General Practice/ Family Medicine Illawarra Aboriginal Medical Service 2003 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Development of a COVID-19 virtual community of practice in New South Wales Published In Australian Journal of General Practice
2022	Ethical considerations regarding the use of pooled data from electronic health records in general practice Published In Australian Journal of General Practice
2022	Factors that influence women's decision on infant feeding: An integrative review Published In Women and Birth
2022	Low back pain in people aged 60 years and over Published In The BMJ
2022	Ngununggula: The story of a cancer care team for aboriginal people Published In International Journal of Whole Person Care
2022	Systematic review of guidelines for managing physical health during treatment for substance use disorders: Implications for the alcohol and other drug workforce Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2021	A Delphi yarn: applying Indigenous knowledges to enhance the cultural utility of SMART Recovery Australia Published In Addiction Science and Clinical Practice
2021	A multi-methods yarn about SMART Recovery: First insights from Australian Aboriginal facilitators and group members Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2021	Facilitators and barriers to integrating physical health care during treatment for substance use: A socio-ecological analysis Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2021	Support can increase use of the AUDIT-C in Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: a cluster randomized trial Published In Addiction
2020	Review of online breastfeeding information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women Published In Women and Birth
2020	Substance Use and Co-occurring Physical Health Problems: File Review of a Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service Published In Journal of Dual Diagnosis
2020	What patients want to ask their doctors: Data analysis from Question Builder, an online question prompt list tool Published In Patient Education and Counseling
2019	Home to health care to hospital: Evaluation of a cancer care team based in Australian Aboriginal primary care Published In Australian Journal of Rural Health
2019	Supporting Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to deliver alcohol care: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial Published In BMJ Open
2019	Systematic review of addiction recovery mutual support groups and Indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States of America and Hawaii Published In Addictive Behaviors
2018	Managing your withdrawal from alcohol at home Published In Medicine Today
2018	Standardised alcohol screening in primary health care services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia Published In Addiction Science and Clinical Practice
2018	Treating alcohol dependence: Managing withdrawal and preventing relapse Published In Medicine Today
2017	Healing at Home: Developing a Model for Ambulatory Alcohol “Detox” in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service Published In International Journal of Indigenous Health
2017	Healing at home: Developing a model for ambulatory alcohol "detox" in an Aboriginal community controlled health service Published In International Journal of Indigenous Health
2017	Patients’ attitudes towards chaperone use for intimate physical examinations in general practice Published In Australian Family Physician
2016	A circle of silence: the attitudes of patients older than 65 years of age to ceasing long-term sleeping tablets Published In Sports Medicine
2016	Which direction should Australian health system reform be heading? Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2015	Lifting the burden: A coordinated approach to action on Aboriginal tobacco resistance and control in NSW Published In Public Health Research and Practice
2015	Should naltrexone be the first-line medicine to treat alcohol dependence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations? An Australian perspective Published In Australian Family Physician
2014	Outpatient alcohol withdrawal management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Published In Australian Family Physician
2013	Addressing high rates of smoking in remote aboriginal communities: new evidence for GPs Published In Australian Family Physician
2012	Translation of tobacco policy into practice in disadvantaged and marginalized subpopulations: A study of challenges and opportunities in remote Australian Indigenous communities Published In Health Research Policy and Systems
2011	Can we measure daily tobacco consumption in remote Indigenous communities? Comparing self-reported tobacco consumption with community-level estimates in an Arnhem Land study Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2011	Smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical activity interventions targeting Indigenous Australians: rigorous evaluations and new directions needed Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2010	Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? Published In Medical Journal of Australia
2010	Brief intervention resource kits for Indigenous Australians: generally evidence-based, but missing important components Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2010	Using breath carbon monoxide to validate self-reported tobacco smoking in remote Australian Indigenous communities Published In Population Health Metrics
2009	Disseminating best-evidence health-care to Indigenous health-care settings and programs in Australia: identifying the gaps Published In Health Promotion International
2008	Tobacco and aboriginal people in NSW. Published In New South Wales public health bulletin
2006	Evaluation of a multi-component community tobacco intervention in three remote Australian aboriginal communities Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2006	The role of remote community stores in reducing the harm resulting from tobacco to Aboriginal people Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2006	Where there's smoke, there's fire: High prevalence of smoking among some sub-populations and recommendations for intervention Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2005	Television and delivery of health promotion programs to remote Aboriginal communities. Published In Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
2004	An evidence-based approach to planning tobacco interventions for Aboriginal people Published In Drug and Alcohol Review
2003	A review of tobacco interventions for indigenous Australians Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2003	A study of the use of free nicotine patches by Indigenous people Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2003	Aboriginal and torres strait islander Australians and tobacco Published In Tobacco Control
2002	An evaluation of tobacco brief intervention training in three Indigenous health care settings in north Queensland Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2002	Tobacco addiction and the process of colonisation Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2000	Cannabis: A trojan horse for nicotine? Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Chapter

Year	Title
2006	Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease Published In Comprehensive Management of High Risk Cardiovascular Patients Publisher Informa Healthcare
2006	Tobacco and Cardiovascular Disease Published In Comprehensive Management of High Risk Cardiovascular Patients Publisher Taylor & Francis

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2014	Another pair of eyes in the room: do patients want a chaperone for intimate examinations? Published In 2014 Primary Health Care Research Conference: Program & Abstracts
2014	The attitude of patients over 65yrs to ceasing long term sleeping tablets Published In 2014 Primary Health Care Research Conference: Program & Abstracts
2013	Chaperones for Pap smears: do Australian GPs offer or use them? Published In 2013 PHC Research Conference Abstracts
2009	Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? Published In Proceedings of the Third International Clinical skills Conference
2009	Are patients willing participants in the new wave of community-based medical education in regional and rural Australia? Published In 2009 General Practice Education and Training Convention

Other Publications

Year	Title
2015	Sleeping tablet study: The attitude of patients over 65 years to ceasing long term sleeping tablets
2013	Australian patients’ attitudes toward chaperone use for intimate physical examinations in general practice

Featured In

Illawarra Mercury News Story News Release

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Aboriginal people with cancer to access evidence based care: developing a manual and training package in use for workers in primary care to support cancer care Awarded by: Cancer Australia Funding Scheme: Supporting people with cancer
2021	COMFORT: Clinical Observation, Management, and Function Of low back pain Relief Therapies Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies
2008	Evaluation of the Timor Leste Tobacco Project Awarded by: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Funding Scheme: Grant
	Peer support for breastfeeding for Aboriginal women Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: Preventative and Public Health Research

Other Research Activities

UOW Continuity grant, Preventing reincarceration in Aboriginal people $8K Chief Investigator 2019 -
NHMRC Optimise Study Senior Research Fellow 2018 -
NHMRC Increasing uptake of evidence-based management of unhealthy alcohol use in Aboriginal primary health care services $2.3M Chief Investigator 2016 -
Cancer Australia Suporting People with Cancer $120K Chief Investigator 2019 - 2021
CRE Indigenous Health and Alcohol $2.5M Chief Investigator 2016 - 2021
NHMRC Indigenous community action for smoking cessation $1.2 Chief Investigator 2007 - 2012
AHMRC tobacco project BREATHE (ARC/ Cancer Council) $700K Chief Investigator 2003 - 2008
NHMRC Tobacco programs for indigenous people in the Northern Territory $49.6K Chief Investigator 1999 - 2001

Potential Supervision Topics

Aboriginal health
Alcohol
Tobacco
Primary Health Care
Prevention
Cancer care for Aboriginal people

Teaching Activities

Phase 3, Postgraduate Medicine, UOW Chair of Phase 2019 -

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Efficacy, Acceptability, Feasibility and Level of Person-centred Care of a Radiation Oncology Follow-up Model of Care in General Practice	Sandell, Tiffany
Doctor of Philosophy	Breastfeeding: what's stopping women and how can they be supported?	Thorne, Beck

Reviewer Of

ANZ J Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Journal Article) 2019 -
Drug and Alcohol Review (Journal Article) 2015 -
Australian Journal of Primary Health (Journal Article) 2010 -
Australian Journal of Rural Health (Journal Article) 2010 -
Medical Journal of Australia (Journal Article) 2010 -
Australian Journal Of General Practice (Journal) 2000 -
ANZJPH (Journal Article) 1999 -

Organizer Of Event

PHAA National Conference 1999, Darwin 1999

Education And Training

RANZCOG 1997 -
Institute of Company Directors 2016
Charles Darwin University 1999 - 2002
University of Sydney, School of Public Health 1997 - 1998
UNSW, School of Medicine 1985 - 1991
RACP-AFPHM 2002
RACGP, RACGP 1994 - 1997

Awards And Honors

RACGP Chris Silagy Award, conferred by RACGP

Teaching Overview

Ass Prof Rowena Ivers has been involved in the UOW Graduate Medicine program since its inception, as an honorary clinician, and since 2019, as a staff academic.
She has been involved in medical education for over 20 years, for medical students and medical registrars, and has previously worked as a medical educator for GP Synergy and Coast City Country and has been an examiner for both RACGP and RACP/AFPHM.
She is Chair of Phase 3 in the medical program, overseeing medical students based in primary care and ED across NSW. She supervises MD research projects, Honours research projects, MPH projects and at PhD level.

Keywords

Medical education
Aboriginal health

Full Name

Rowena Ivers

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Available for Collaborative Projects

Member Of

Clinical Activities

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Featured In

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

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Reviewer Of

Organizer Of Event

Background

Education And Training

Awards And Honors

Teaching Overview

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Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Clinical Activities

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Featured In

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Organizer Of Event

Background

Education And Training

Awards And Honors

Teaching Overview

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

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