Dr Josie Povey
AIMhi for Youth - Darwin Site Lead
Qualifications:
PhD, Menzies School of Health Research/Charles Darwin University, 2022; Masters of Public Health, Menzies School of Health Research, 2016; Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, James Cook University, 2006
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Biography:
Josie believes empowering people and communities results in lasting positive change. Josie is a qualitative researcher, mental health clinician and Occupational Therapist, who has worked in the Northern Territory in clinical and research roles since 2009. Josie’s doctoral thesis: The Aboriginal and Islander Mental Health Initiative for Youth App Project: An emerging framework for digital mental health design with Indigenous young people, explores the lived experiences of First Nations young people in remote and urban NT in relation to their wellbeing and involved them in the co-design of a new digital mental health tool, the AIMhi-Y app.
Josie collaborates with individuals and communities, including First Nations and non-Indigenous stakeholders to address, advocate and innovate for; early intervention mental health care, service access, the use of technology in mental health care and participatory research methods. Josie has a strong interest in community engagement, capacity building and knowledge translation. She has co-led collaborations with First Nations people and communities to co-design and develop mental health resources in language and using digital approaches such as Ngawurrmangajirri resources, Youth Health Summit Podcast series and the AIMhi-Y app.
Research Themes
- AIMhi-Y App development & feasibility trial
- Aboriginal and Islander Mental Health Initiative for Youth (AIMhi-Y) Project
- Ngawurramangajirri - Tiwi Mental Health Literacy Project
- Wellbeing Intervention for Chronic Kidney Disease
- Menzies Youth Health Collaboration - Menzies
- 2021 NT Youth Health Summit - Menzies
- Povey, J., Sweet, M., Nagel, T., Lowell, A., Shand, F., Vigona, J., & Dingwall, K. M. (2022). Determining Priorities in the Aboriginal and Islander Mental Health Initiative for Youth App Second Phase Participatory Design Project: Qualitative Study and Narrative Literature Review. JMIR formative research, 6(2), e28342. doi:10.2196/28342
- Povey, J., Sweet, M., Nagel, T., Mills, P. P. J. R., Stassi, C. P., Puruntatameri, A. M. A., . . . Dingwall, K. (2020). Drafting the Aboriginal and Islander Mental Health Initiative for Youth (AIMhi-Y) App: Results of a formative mixed methods study. Internet Interventions, 21, 100318. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2020.100318.
- Povey, J., Mills, P., Dingwall, K., Lowell, A., Singer, J., Rotumah, D., . . . Nagel, T. (2016). Acceptability of Mental Health Apps for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: A Qualitative Study. J Med Internet Res, 18(3), e65. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5314.
- Povey, Josie & Raphiphatthana, Buaphrao & Torok, Michelle & Nagel, Tricia & Shand, Fiona & Sweet, Michelle & Lowell, Anne & Mills, Patj & Dingwall, Kylie. (2021). Involvement of Indigenous young people in the design and evaluation of digital mental health interventions: a scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 10. 10.1186/s13643-021-01685-7.
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MEDIA RELEASE | Ngawurramangajirri - Tiwi phrases for mental health and wellbeing
A new Tiwi to English phrase book to help people talk about mental health and wellbeing is being launched in Wurrumiyanga.
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MEDIA RELEASE | Menzies launches distribution of AIMhi-Y app
Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) has launched a project which supports youth services in the Northern Territory and South Australia to use a newly developed early intervention digital mental health tool co-designed by young people, Aboriginal Elders and clinicians.
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MEDIA RELEASE | Research award supports the development of digital mental health resources
Collaboratively developing digital mental health resources to support Tiwi people will be the aim of 2023 Harry Christian Giese Research into Action Award recipient and Menzies mental health researcher, Dr Josie Povey.