Ms Makayla-May Brinckley
Research interests
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
Epidemiology
Knowledge Translation
Biography
Makayla-May Brinckley is a Wiradjuri woman from Cootamundra, NSW.
After graduating from Psychology Honours from the ANU in 2019, she worked as a research assistant in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program in the Research School of Population Health. Makayla is now a PhD student and Research Associate in the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing, with much of her work based within Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing.
Makayla is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and taking a strengths-based and decolonial approach to health and wellbeing.
Publications
- Brinckley, M, Jones, R, Batterham, P et al. 2022, 'The development and validation of a family functioning measure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults', BMC Public Health, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-11.
- Thurber, K, Brinckley, M, Jones, R et al. 2022, 'Population-level contribution of interpersonal discrimination to psychological distress among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults, and to Indigenous non-Indigenous inequities: cross-sectional analysis of a community-controlled First N', Lancet, vol. 400, no. 10368, pp. 2084-2094.
- Cohen, R, Maddox, R, Sedgwick, M et al. 2021, 'Tobacco related attitudes and behaviours in relation to exposure to the tackling indigenous smoking program: Evidence from the Mayi Kuwayu study', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 20, pp. 1-17.
- Lovett, R & Brinckley, M 2021, 'Community level cultural connectedness and suicide by young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 214, no. 11, pp. 511-512.
- Brinckley, M, Calabria, B, Walker, J et al. 2021, 'Reliability, validity, and clinical utility of a culturally modified Kessler scale (MK-K5) in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population', BMC Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 15.
- Lovett, R, Brinckley, M, Phillips, B et al. 2020, 'In the beginning it was our people's law. What makes us well; to never be sick. Cohort profile of Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2020, no. 2, pp. 8-30.
- Guthrie, J, Thurber, K, Lovett, R et al. 2020, 'The answers were there before white man come in': stories of strength and resilience for responding to violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities - Family Community Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Study Report.
- Thurber, K, Colonna, E, Wells, S et al. 2020, 'Data for action: The Family and Community Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (FaCtS) Study', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
- Brinckley, M 2018, 'Growing up Aboriginal in Australia', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2018, no. 2, pp. 78-79.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Assessment of mental health and wellbeing needs during the Voice to Parliament Referendum - Mayi Kuwayu Study (Secondary Investigator)
- Proposal to provide national reporting on cultural indicators from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Implementation Plan to the Department of Health (Secondary Investigator)
