In this episode Craig sits down in the outdoor studio (a park bench) to chat with Ingrid Stacey, a cardiovascular epidemiologist and biostatistician from the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Centre at the UWA School of Population and Global Health. Ingrid, a finalist in the 2023 Premier’s Student Science of the Year Award, talks through her education and career, which started doing lab research involving animal models, and has progressed through different roles in government, to where she is today, an emerging leader in acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) research.

Ingrid submitted her PhD earlier this year and talks through what it was like beginning a PhD during COVID as well as having parental responsibilities. Ingrid also discusses the importance of working collaboratively and respectfully with Indigenous communities and how this results in higher quality research being done. This is something Ingrid has extensive experience in as ARF and RHD are diseases that disproportionately affect Indigenous communities in Australia. Relatedly, Ingrid talks through how the health system often overlooks Indigenous people, which Ingrid’s PhD work finding a considerable amount of missing cause of death data from death records relating to Indigenous people.

As Ingrid discusses, she has been a long-time listener of the podcast, so it was great to have her on as a guest, we hope you enjoy our conversation.

You can about Ingrid and her work here: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/ingrid-stacey

As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: [email protected] or via twitter @healthmeanswhat or via FaceBook @MeaningofHealth or via Instagram @healthmeanswhat

Ver todos los episodios