Lorelle Holland

Dr. Lorelle Holland, a proud Mandandanji woman raised on Turrbal Country, is a Registered Nurse with four decades of experience spanning clinical practice, management, education, and research in healthcare. Notably, she worked as a Remote Area Nurse in the Northern Territory alongside Aboriginal communities. An esteemed University of Queensland alumna, she holds a Bachelor from the University of Southern Queensland, a Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health (2020), for which she received the Postgraduate Coursework Academic Excellence Award presented by Professor Bronwyn Fredericks and Professor Tracey Bunda, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Indigenous Health, completed recently. Her PhD thesis, titled "The Co-design of Transformative Healing and Adungadoo Pathways: Preventing the Criminalisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children with Complex Support Needs," employs transformative epistemologies and decolonising methodologies to advocate for Indigenous-led justice reinvestment and culturally responsive pathways.

In her current appointments as Research Fellow in Indigenous Health at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures, alongside her role as Affiliate Research Fellow at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland, Dr. Holland drives research on health equity and decolonisation of interventions in health and justice systems. Her academic interests include preventing the criminalisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, rheumatic heart disease prevention, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder assessments, incarceration diversion programs, and social determinants of health. Notable publications comprise "Reimagining a Compassionate Australian Society through the Voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Exposed to Child Justice Systems in Australia" (2025, Crime & Delinquency), "Resisting the Incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children: A Scoping Review" (2024, First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal), "Alcohol Use in Australia: Countering Harm with Healing" (2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific), "Factors to be Considered as Part of a Holistic Assessment for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder" (2023, Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research), and "Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Youth Justice: A Systematic Review" (2021, Journal of Experimental Criminology). Dr. Holland contributes to public discourse through conference presentations and upholds principles from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Professional Email: lorelle.holland@uq.edu.au