Dr Prabhakar Veginadu
Research Fellow
Qualifications:
PhD (Dentistry), La Trobe University, 2023; Master of Dental Surgery, Sri Ramachandra University, 2017; Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Dr NTR University of Health Sciences, 2011
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
Associate supervisor
Location:
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Biography:
Prabhu is a qualified dental professional and an early career researcher whose research interests primarily focus on reducing oral health disparities, particularly among vulnerable and underserved populations. His areas of research are broadly around equity in oral health outcomes, access to health care and health services research, health workforce planning, distribution and retention, and rural and remote health. He has experience in analysing large administrative and linked population health datasets using quantitative and Geographic Information Systems-based analytical methods.
His PhD examined the patterns and determinants of access to dental services by mapping geographic accessibility and supply of dental workforce relative to population’s oral health need and measuring various attributes of service utilisation.
As a Research Fellow at Menzies, Prabhu is working across projects focused on improving primary health care workforce in rural and remote Australia.
Research Themes
- Primary health care and health systems research
- Oral health researcher
- Indigenous health
- CRE for Strengthening Health Systems in Remote Australia (CRESTRA)
- The cost and health impact of short-term health staffing in remote and rural Indigenous communities: Does community control make a difference?
- Co-design and Implementation of Workforce Retention Strategies in Remote Aboriginal Health Services
- Veginadu, P., Masood, M., Gussy, M., & Calache, H. (2023). Patterns and predictors of public dental service utilisation among refugees in Victoria, Australia: A latent profile and multilevel analysis. BMC Oral Health 23, 201.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-023-02886-3
- Veginadu, P., Gussy, M., Calache, H., & Masood, M. (2022) Factors associated with access to dental care among refugees: A systematic review of quantitative studies. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol, 00:1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12835
- Veginadu, P., Gussy, M., Calache, H., & Masood, M. (2022) Disparities in spatial accessibility to public dental services relative to estimated need for oral health care among refugee populations in Victoria. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol, 00:1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.12792
- Christian, B., George, A., Veginadu, P., Villarosa, A., Makino, Y., Kim, WJ., Masood, M., Martin, R., and Harada, Y., & Mijares-Majini, MC. (2022) Effective Strategies to Integrate Oral Health into Primary Care: A Systematic Review. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4268226
- Veginadu, P., Calache, H., Gussy, M., Pandian, A., & Masood, M. (2022) An overview of methodological approaches in systematic reviews. J Evid Based Med, 15:39-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/jebm.12468
- Kenny, A., Dickson-Swift, V., Gussy, M., Kidd, S., Cox, D., Masood, M., Azul, D., Chan, C., Christian, B., Theobold, J., Hodge, B., Knevel, R., McKinstry, C., Couch, D., Hyett, N., Veginadu, P., & Doroud, N. (2020). Oral health interventions for people living with mental disorders: protocol for a realist systematic review. Int J Ment Health Syst 14, 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-020-00357-8
- Veginadu, P., Tavva, SR., Muddada, V., Gorantla, S. (2020). Effect of pharmacological agents on relapse following orthodontic tooth movement:A systematic review of animal studies. Angle Orthod; 90 (4): 598-606. https://doi.org/10.2319/092619-613.1