Professor Catherine Turner RN, BA, Grad Dip Ed, MN, PhD
Cathy Turner has nursing and education qualifications, clinical experience in critical care and emergency nursing and a PhD in population health. Over the last 16 years, Cathy Turner has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses and is currently the Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Queensland.
In recent years, Cathy has established a research profile in injury epidemiology and quantifying the prevalence and incidence of population health outcomes using epidemiological research methods. Cathy has been teaching epidemiology at The University of Queensland since 2000. Her background in nursing education led her to develop and implement a new undergraduate nursing program at the University in 2004 for which she received a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award.
Cathy was responsible for establishing the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort Study, which examines recruitment and retention issues within the current and future nursing and midwifery professions as well as investigating population health outcomes within the cohort. In 2006, Cathy received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and spent several months at Harvard University, Boston, learning about longitudinal study methods from the Nurses Health Study research group. She is the recent recipient of an NHMRC Career Development Award in the area of Population Health.