Dr Kym Rae

Biography

Dr Kym Rae is an Early Career Researcher who completed her PhD studies at the University of New England in early 2007. Her PhD work looking at predicting the onset of labour in women provided a natural progression into her post-doctoral work aimed at reducing premature and low birth weight deliveries in Aboriginal communities. Dr Rae is committed to developing research in partnership with Aboriginal people and providing ongoing capacity building opportunities for early Aboriginal researchers. Dr Kym Rae has been the Program Coordinator of the Gomeroi gaaynggal research program (NHMRC 569239) since the early phases of consultation with the Aboriginal communities of the Hunter New England Area Health Service. She has been heavily involved in community consultation and developed community connections in each of the project locations. Dr Rae continues to be in close communication with the Aboriginal communities of Tamworth and Walgett particularly. She has spent four years in community consultation with Aboriginal communities in the local and national arena. Dr Rae is the program coordinator for both the Scientific research and ArtsHealth Gomeroi gaaynggal program. She has a personal interest in the capacity building of local Aboriginal people and has mentored the Aboriginal staff involved in the Gomeroi gaaynggal project to continue to build their research skills and return research capacity to local communities. She has personally mentored two Aboriginal women through to the successful completion of the Indigenous Research Capacity Building Cert IV. Currently she is mentoring a beginning Indigenous Researcher from the University of Newcastle through the early stages of her project design and ethics applications.

Despite the short time frame, she has published a number of conference and journal papers, and continues to increase her publication output. She continues to build her publications in Indigenous maternal and infant health, ArtsHealth and coordinate art exhibitions for the Gomeroi gaaynggal mothers.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of New England, 2007
• Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Teaching, University of New England, 2004
• Bachelor of Science (Honours), University of New England, 2002

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Research

Research keywords

• Aboriginal Health
• Endocrinology
• Parturition
• Reproduction

Research expertise

Dr Kym Rae is an Early Career Researcher who completed her PhD studies at the University of New England in early 2007. Her PhD work looking at predicting the onset of labour in women provided a natural progression into her post-doctoral work aimed at reducing premature and low birth weight deliveries in Aboriginal communities. Dr Rae is committed to developing research in partnership with Aboriginal people and providing ongoing capacity building opportunities for early Aboriginal researchers. Dr Kym Rae has been the Program Coordinator of the Gomeroi gaaynggal research program since the early phases of consultation with the Aboriginal communities of the Hunter New England Area Health Service and has been instrumental in obtaining research funds of over $4million in the last 4years of the Gomeroi gaaynggal program. She has been heavily involved in community consultation and developed community connections in each of the project locations. Dr Rae continues to be in close communication with the Aboriginal communities of Tamworth and Walgett particularly. She has spent four years in community consultation with Aboriginal communities in the local and national arena. Dr Rae is the program coordinator for both the Scientific research and ArtsHealth Gomeroi gaaynggal program. She has a personal interest in the capacity building of local Aboriginal people and has mentored the Aboriginal staff involved in the Gomeroi gaaynggal project to continue to build their research skills and return research capacity to local communities. She has personally mentored two Aboriginal women through to the successful completion of the Indigenous Research Capacity Building Cert IV and has two more staff undergoing this training program.

Despite the short time frame, she has published a number of conference and journal papers, and continues to increase her publication output. She continues to build her publications in Indigenous maternal and infant health, ArtsHealth and coordinate art exhibitions for the Gomeroi gaaynggal mothers. Despite a scientific background her commitment to ArtsHealth have lead to the Gomeroi gaaynggal program being awarded the Patronage of the Governor of NSW and the National Excellence award for an Indigenous ArtsHealth program.

Languages

• English

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
111799	Public Health And Health Services Not Elsewhere Classified	50
110399	Clinical Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified	25
190499	Performing Arts And Creative Writing Not Elsewhere Classified	25

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Hunter Medical Research Institute
• PRC - Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science (RS)

Group

• Hunter Medical Research Institute - Pregnancy and Reproduction

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

• Member - Endocrine Society of Australia
• Member - Society for Reproductive Biology

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

• Member - Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee

Awards

Research Award.

2005	Keith and Dorothy Mackay Fellowship University of New England (Australia) Travel fellowship awarded to the best applicant

Invitations

ArtsHealth Conference #2 University of Newcastle, Australia (Invited Presenter)

2009

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Reproduction