Trudi Sieland

Project Support and Evaluation Officer

Qualifications:

Master of Public Health, Menzies School of Health Research, 2025; Master of International Development, RMIT University, 2015; Bachelor of Accounting, Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea, 2008

Location:

Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital

Biography:

Trudi is a qualitative researcher with the Menzies Renal Program. She manages the Renal Wellbeing Project, exploring models of care and support pathways aimed at reducing emergency department pressures associated with missed dialysis. She provides data collection and qualitative research support to other projects. 

She was previously part of the qualitative research team for the Aboriginal Birth Cohort (ABC) Study. The study looked at “Key Turning Points and Facilitating Factors of Health Trajectories as Told by First Nations People in the Northern Territory”, which formed the basis of ther Master of Public Health thesis.

Before joining Menzies, Trudi worked in international development across her native Papua New Guinea, the wider Pacific, and the United Kingdom. Her work focused on human rights and community empowerment, supporting local organisations in their efforts toward social justice. In 2019, she relocated to Darwin with her family, which triggered a career shift to health research. 

Trudi’s interests lie in advocating for cultural and social determinants of health and promoting people-centred approaches to healthcare.