Cecilia Castiello has a Social Sciences and Health Policy background and is passionate about health equity and committed to leveraging local knowledge systems to empower community-led solutions through her work. Cecilia began her research career in regional and remote East and Sub-Saharan Africa, working on sexual health program evaluations for various government and non-government organisations. Cecilia’s work has extended to various countries in Africa, and the Pacific before migrating to Australia nearly a decade ago. Cecilia has been working in research departments within the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) sector for the past few years, where she has co-led research projects in Youth Justice, mental health, Kinship and Foster Care, Housing, Domestic and Family Violence and service evaluation. Cecilia is very passionate about strengths-based research and is committed to ensuring her work highlights the implications of community-led interventions, data sovereignty, and community-controlled research governance.
Cecilia’s key research interests include health service evaluation, domestic and family violence, housing, and maternal and child health. Cecilia is pursuing a PhD at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, on the LEWIS study (an evaluation of the Birthing in Our Community program) and the Deadly Fit Mums program.
Project title
Deadly Fit Mums: Yarning about health and wellbeing of mums and their families
Supervision
Associate Professor Federica Barzi, Associate Professor Judith Dean