Dr Matthew McGrail - Researcher Profile

Matthew McGrail

Address

Monash University
Northways Road, Gippsland Campus

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 51226394

Email: Matthew.McGrail@monash.edu


Biography

Matthew is a full-time Research Fellow based at the Gippsland Medical School in Churchill, but working across the School of Rural Health. He is a nationally recognised research leader in the field of rural health, and particularly in rural health workforce and health services policy, as well as measures of rural access (for which he completed his PhD in 2008).

He is a Chief Investigator on the Centre of Research Excellence in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care (access and equity), funded by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute. He also leads Rural workforce supply, distribution and mobility stream of activity within the MABEL study (Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life) Centre of Research Excellence, funded by NHMRC.

Research & Supervision Interests

    • Rural Health Workforce
    • Access to health care
    • Rural Health Services Research
    • GIS methodologies in health
    • Health workforce policy / incentives
    • Advanced quantitative methodologies

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2008
GRADDIPIT
Institution: Swinburne University of Technology
Year awarded: 2003
SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 1995