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Dr Ignacio Correa-Velez is a Senior Lecturer in the , , . Ignacio completed his PhD in Population Health (University of Queensland) in 2004. He has a MBBS (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) and a Postgraduate Degree in Family Medicine and Community Health (Universidad del Valle, Colombia). Between 2004 and 2011, Dr Correa-Velez was Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the La Trobe Refugee Research Centre (La Trobe University, Melbourne). In 2006 he was awarded a NHMRC Postdoctoral Public Health (Australia) Fellowship (2006-10).
Since the early 2000s, Dr Correa-Velez has been dedicated to research that helps improve the mental and physical health and wellbeing, and supports the successful settlement of refugees and migrants. Dr Correa-Velez’s research foregrounds the social and environmental determinants of health, especially as this applies to migrant and refugee communities. He has particular expertise in longitudinal studies and in cross-cultural, peer-led and mixed research methods. He has published over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reports. Between February 2019 and January 2022, Dr Correa-Velez was the Co-CEO of the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT).
Research interests
- Refugee/migrant health;
- Health inequities;
- Social determinants of health;
- Mental health;
- Human rights;
- Impact of environmental disasters on marginalised communities;
- Cross-cultural research
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- ORCID : 0000-0003-1800-4475
- Local : 10378.3/8085/1018.13642