Rate My Professor Jane Elvidge

Dr Elissa Jane Elvidge is a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and also serves as a Casual Academic in Online Development with Pathways and Academic Learning Support. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Newcastle. With over 16 years of experience collaborating with diverse communities, including Aboriginal, GLTBQIA+, and culturally and linguistically diverse groups, Elvidge specializes as a mixed methods researcher focused on enhancing clinical and public health outcomes via community-led partnerships. Her research spans Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based research, respiratory diseases, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies health and wellbeing. She has attracted more than $7.5 million in competitive grants, leading initiatives such as Breathe for Bub: Treatable traits asthma care for Aboriginal women during pregnancy ($1,994,723, Medical Research Futures Fund, 2024), From community priority to delivery of care: Co-designing effective treatment models for Aboriginal women with asthma during pregnancy ($628,622, Department of Health and Aged Care, 2024), and Unglamorous but essential: Ensuring the efficacy of inhaled therapies in rural and remote Indigenous communities ($1,348,259, Medical Research Futures Fund, 2025).

Elvidge has earned prestigious awards including the 2024 University of Newcastle Staff Excellence Award for Research Excellence - Early Career Researcher, 2023 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Award from the University of Newcastle, 2023 Public Health Association of Australia Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Emerging Leader Award, and 2023 College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing Indigenous Engagement Award. Her influential publications include Empirical assessment of cultural safety within Australian hospitals highlights the impact of access to Aboriginal hospital liaison officers on the experiences of Aboriginal patients (2025, First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal), Cultural safety in hospitals: validating an empirical measurement tool to capture the Aboriginal patient experience (2020, Australian Health Review), Proactive anti-racism training for healthcare: study protocol for the development and evaluation of an Australian cognitive-behavioural therapy-informed racism reduction programme (2026, BMJ Open), and earlier contributions to influenza surveillance such as FLUTRACKING WEEKLY ONLINE COMMUNITY SURVEY OF INFLUENZA-LIKE ILLNESS: 2013 AND 2014 (2015, Communicable Diseases Intelligence). She collaborates with international partners from Oxford University, University of Southampton, and First Nations researchers across New Zealand, America, Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, and Spain, and has developed validated cultural safety tools adopted globally by health services, alongside online equity and cultural capability training.