Fiona joined the Faculty as an Associate Lecturer in 2007 and is now a Senior Lecturer. Prior to her appointment Fiona was a research associate at the Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University, Canada and a legal advisor to New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner. Fiona’s research encompasses issues related to health governance and has four broad themes:
- the governance of health institutions and systems
- the governance of health research
- the governance of health professionals
- the governance of patient safety throughout the health sector.
Fiona’s work has been published in a range of international journals, she has presented at a number of international conferences, and she has received grants, contracts and scholarships to conduct research in this area.
Research interests
- Health governance
- Health systems law and policy
- Patient safety
- Regulation.
Research funding
Canadian Institutes for Health Research Operating Grant
(2011-2015) $442,066 (CD) Articulating Standards: translating the practices of standardizing health technologies (Professor J. Graham, Dalhousie University (PI), Professor R. Darnell, University of Western Ontario, Dr C. Holmes, CNRS Centre National de la Recherché Scientique, France; Dr M. Jones, ECHO: Women’s Health, and Dr F. McDonald, Queensland University of Technology.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Health Services and Policy Research
(2010) $17,000 (CD) Articulating Standards and Practices of Health Regulation: A Grant Writing Workshop (J. Graham (P.I), R Darnell, C Holmes, M Jones, F McDonald, V Ozdemir, C. Stephens)
Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership
(2009) $61,720 Evidence-Based Decision Making to Reform Governance at the District Level: The Case of Nutritional Policies, Programs and Interventions in Bantul and Gunungkidul (F. McDonald & A. Yoganingrum (PIs), F. Purwaningrum, D. Ariani)
This information has been contributed by Dr Fiona McDonald.
