Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

Janet Stajic

Senior Research Assistant | PhD Candidate
UQ Poche Centre & Faculty of Medicine

Project Title

Recognition of the work and understanding concepts of “health” and “health care” of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners in urban South East Queensland

Supervision

A/Prof Lisa Fitzgerald, Professor Chelsea Watego, Dr Bryan Mukandi. 

Researcher biography

Janet is a Yidinji-Jirrbal woman from Far North Queensland who grew up in Brisbane. Her work experience is in community development, community services, clinical services, project and program management, policy and research roles across the Aboriginal community controlled, public, not-for-profit and university sectors.

While Janet completes her PhD, she also works up peer review publications as a Seinior Research Assistant with UQ Poche Centre.

Publications

Journal Articles (9)
Research Report (1)

Journal Articles

Mamun, Abdullah A., Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Leske, Stuart, Stajic, Janet and Ward, James (2024). Research needed on urban Indigenous health inequalities. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 102 (2), 146-148. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290868
Watego, Chelsea, Whop, Lisa J., Singh, David, Mukandi, Bryan, Macoun, Alissa, Newhouse, George, Drummond, Ali, McQuire, Amy, Stajic, Janet, Kajlich, Helena and Brough, Mark (2021). Black to the future: making the case for indigenist health humanities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (16) 8704, 1-10. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18168704
Stajic, Janet (2020). … but what about the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker academic? Transcending the role of ‘unknowing assistant’ in health care and research through higher education: a personal journey. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 49 (2), 1-8. doi: 10.1017/jie.2020.21
Bond, Chelsea, Brough, Mark, Mukandi, Bryan, Springer, Shannon, Askew, Deborah and Stajic, Janet (2020). Looking forward looking black: making the case for a radical rethink of strategies for success in Indigenous higher education. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 49 (2) PII S1326011120000137, 1-10. doi: 10.1017/jie.2020.13
Stajic, Janet, Harfield, Stephen, Brown, Alex, Dawson, Anna, Davy, Carol, Aromataris, Edoardo and Braunack-Mayer, Annette (2019). Evaluating a research capacity strengthening program for Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 25 (1), 72-81. doi: 10.1071/py18058
Bond, Chelsea, Brough, Mark, Willis, Jon, Stajic, Janet, Mukandi, Bryan, Canuto, Condy, Springer, Shannon, Askew, Deborah, Angus, Lynnell and Lewis, Tara (2019). Beyond the pipeline: a critique of the discourse surrounding the development of an Indigenous primary healthcare workforce in Australia. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 25 (5), 389-394. doi: 10.1071/py19044
Reilly, Rachel, Micklem, Jasmine, Yerrell, Paul, Banham, David, Morey, Kim, Stajic, Janet, Eckert, Marion, Lawrence, Monica, Stewart, Harold B., Brown, Alex and On behalf of the other CanDAD Investigators and the CanDAD Aboriginal Community Reference Group (2018). Aboriginal experiences of cancer and care coordination: Lessons from the Cancer Data and Aboriginal Disparities (CanDAD) narratives. Health Expectations, 21 (5), 927-936. doi: 10.1111/hex.12687
Olds, Jessica, Reilly, Rachel, Yerrell, Paul, Stajic, Janet, Micklem, Jasmine, Morey, Kim and Brown, Alex (2016). Exploring barriers to and enablers of adequate healthcare for Indigenous Australian prisoners with cancer: a scoping review drawing on evidence from Australia, Canada and the United States. Health and Justice, 4 (1) 5. doi: 10.1186/s40352-016-0036-8
Yerrell, Paul Henry, Roder, David, Cargo, Margaret, Reilly, Rachel, Banham, David, Micklem, Jasmine May, Morey, Kim, Stewart, Harold Bundamurra, Stajic, Janet, Norris, Michael and Brown, Alex (2016). Cancer Data and Aboriginal Disparities (CanDAD)—developing an Advanced Cancer Data System for Aboriginal people in South Australia: a mixed methods research protocol. BMJ Open, 6 (12) ARTN e012505, e012505. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012505

Research Report

Bond, Chelsea, Brough, Mark, Willis, Jon, Stajic, Janet, Mukandi, Bryan, Canuto, Condy, Springer, Shannon, Askew, Deborah, Angus, Nell and Lewis, Tara (2019). Moving beyond the front line: a 20-year retrospective cohort study of career trajectories from the Indigenous Health Program at the University of Queensland. Lowitja Institute Workforce Research St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.