Gloria Sutherland

B App Sc (Nursing), Post Grad Dip Health Sciences (Health Promotion), MSc (Health Sciences)

Gloria.Sutherland@my.nd.edu.au

• Biography

  Gloria originally trained as a nurse in country NSW before working throughout WA as a midwife, nurse educator and women’s health nurse practitioner.  Her Master’s thesis (Curtin University) evaluated the need for and acceptability of a nurse-provided cervical cancer screening service at Royal Perth Hospital.

  In 1992 she undertook a state wide review of cervical cancer services screening in WA and then went on to establish and manage the WA Cervical Cancer Screening Program and the WA Cervical Cytology Registry.  In 2002 she became the inaugural Population Health Director (WA Country Health Services) for the Kimberley Region. Since then her roles have included implementing the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program in WA, Marketing Adviser to the Chief Nursing Officer and as Senior Policy Officer in Office of the Chief Medical Officer in WA Health.

  Gloria has been a PBL Tutor in School of Medicine (Notre Dame) and Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin School of Public Health.  More recently she has worked as a consultant providing health service planning for local and state government agencies and was recently appointed to the Country Primary Health Council of the WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA).

  In 2014 she was contracted to engage with socially disadvantaged people in Perth to understand and document the health needs of these groups and to identify gaps in service provision.  Through this work she became aware of the alarmingly growing cohort of homeless older women seeking assistance from specialist homeless services.  As a result, she is now seeking to contribute meaningfully to the provision of accessible and acceptable health services for older homeless women in our city by undertaking post graduate (PhD) research, and to contribute evidence based translational research.

  PhD thesis title:  Study of the impact of homelessness on the health status and health needs of older women in the Perth metropolitan area.

  Supervisors: Prof Jim Codde, A/Prof Caroline Bulsara, Prof Suzanne Robinson (Curtin University)
  Enrolled part-time through the School of Health Sciences