Graham works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Professor. He is also Director of Southern Synergy, the Southern Adult Mental Health Research, Training and Evaluation Centre.
In education he has particularly worked with multidisciplinry initiatives at community development and postgraduate levels. His doctoral studies and a substantial part of his publication record are in health services epidemiology in which area he has expertise in qustionnaire development and analysis of complex data sets.
In his role with the Southern Synergy, Graham sits on the Executive of the Mental Health Program, he chairs the Southern Health Postgraduate Psychiatry Training Committee and the Victorian Soutern Workforce Development Steering Group. Southern Synergy has capacities for training design, implementation and evaluation, epidemiological analysis, and project management.
Graham Meadows is on the Editorial Board of Primary Care and Community Psychiatry and is first editor on the textbook ‘Mental Health in Australia’, with a second edition of 698 pages published by Oxford University Press in January 2007. He has a longstanding personal involvement with meditation practices. In recent years he has brought this into professional and academic life becoming actively involved in clinical and research work with mindfulness-based therapies.
Health services epidemiology
Health services research
Mindfulness in Therapeutic interventions
Workforce development, particularly multidisciplinary approaches to clinical and professional education and development
Primary care psychiatry
Mental health economics
Epidemiological analysis, Health services epidemiology , Meditation practices, Mental health, Mental health and wellbeing, Mindfulness, Mindfulness-based therapies
Meadows, G.N., Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Grigg, M.T., McDermott, F.M., Singh, B. (eds), 2012, Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, Oxford University Press, Australia.
Meadows, G.N., Singh, B., Grigg, M. (eds), 2007, Mental Health in Australia, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Australia.
Meadows, G.N., Cavill, M., Epstein, M., Fossey, E., Leggatt, M., Olsen, A., Minas, H., Willshire, D., 2012, Assessment: Essential skills, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 342-393.
Bland, R., Farhall, J., Fernbacher, S., Fossey, E., Happell, B., Kazantzis, N., King, R., Meadows, G.N., Minas, H., Petrik, A.M., Willshire, D., 2012, Assessment: Specialised assessment skills, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 394-427.
Meadows, G.N., Grigg, M.T., Singh, B., McDermott, F.M., 2012, Delivering mental health care, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 45-68.
McDermott, F.M., Meadows, G.N., Wadsworth, Y., Goh, J., Hunter, A., Kroschel, J., Callander, R.J., Fowke, T., 2012, Evaluation and the concept of quality in mental health care, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 199-236.
Meadows, G.N., Harvey, C., Morgan, V., Singh, B.S., 2012, Mental disorder in Australia, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 237-263.
Gerrand, V., Singh, B., Nagel, T.M., Ash, D., Turnbull, C., Meadows, G.N., Fossey, E., Grigg, M.T., Rosen, A., Weir, W., Benson, A., 2012, Mental health services in Australia, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 69-117.
Ash, D., Bland, R., Brown, P., Oakley Browne, M.A., Burvill, P., Davies, J., Grigg, M.T., Gurr, R., Hughson, B., Meadows, G.N., Nagel, T.M., Rosen, A., Scott, J., Singh, B., Smith, G., Weir, W., 2012, Mental health services in the Australian states and territories, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 118-154.
Farhall, J., Harvey, C., Kazantzis, N., King, R., Meadows, G.N., O'Hanlon, B., Petrik, A.M., Rao, S., Shawyer, F., Thomas, N.A., Young, J., 2012, Psychological therapies, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 468-501.
McDermott, F.M., Meadows, G.N., Happell, B., Farhall, J., Grey, F., Callander, R.J., McKenzie, P., Fossey, E., Sundram, S., Harvey, C., Favilla, A., McNab, C.E.L., Shawyer, F., Wadsworth, Y., 2012, Research in mental disorders and mental health practice, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 155-198.
McDermott, F.M., Meadows, G.N., Epstein, M., Olsen, A., Fossey, E., 2012, Society, mental health and illness, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 4-17.
Fossey, E., Cuff, R., Ennals, P., Grey, F., Lloyd, C., McKenzie, P., Meadows, G.N., Papakotsias, A., Waghorn, G., Zimmerman, A., 2012, Supporting recovery and living well, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 502-528.
McDermott, F.M., Huppert, D., Blashki, G.A., Stone, L.E., Epstein, M., Olsen, A., Elsom, S., Meadows, G.N., Rosen, A., Singh, B.S., Ash, D., Turnbull, C., Bland, R., Fossey, E., Farhall, J., Tsismetsi, A., Nagel, T.M., Minas, H., Clarke, M., Leggatt, M., Cavill, M., 2012, The active participants in mental health services, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 267-318.
Singh, B., Ng, C.H., Meadows, G.N., 2012, The global perspective, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 31-44.
Bennetts, W., Callander, R.J., Cavill, M., Fossey, E., Meadows, G.N., Naightin, G., Renouf, N.M., 2012, Working collaboratively, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 319-341.
Meadows, G.N., Monash, D.A., Cichello, A.M., 2007, Collaborative care for common mental disorders, in General Practice Psychiatry, eds Grant Blashki, Fiona Judd and Leon Piterman, McGraw-Hill, Australia, pp. 373-383.
Meadows, G.N., Singh, B., Grigg, M., 2007, Looking forward, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 573-582.
Ash, D., Benson, A., Dunbar, L., Feilding, J., Fossey, E., Gray, J.L., Grigg, M., McKendrick, J., Meadows, G.N., Ozols, I., Rosen, A., Singh, B., Weir, W., 2007, Mental health services in Australia, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 63-98.
Ash, D., Brown, P., Burvill, P., Davies, J., Hughson, B., Meadows, G.N., Nagle, T., Rosen, A., Singh, B., Weir, W., 2007, Mental health services in the Australian states and territories, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 101-131.
Meadows, G.N., Castle, D.J., 2007, Psychiatry in general practice, in Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry, eds Sidney Bloch and Bruce Singh, Melbourne University Press, Australia, pp. 500-510.
Favilla, A., Fossey, E., Happell, B., Harvey, C., McDermott, F., McNab, C.E.L., Meadows, G.N., Singh, B., Wadsworth, Y., 2007, Research in mental disorders and mental health practice, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 132-166.
Bland, R., Clarke, M., Elsom, S., Epstein, M., Farhall, J., Feilding, J., Fossey, E., Leggatt, M., Liaw, S., Meadows, G.N., Minas, H., Olsen, A., Roper, C., Rosen, A., Singh, B., 2007, The active participants in mental health services, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 190-226.
Renouf, N.M., Meadows, G.N., 2007, Working collaboratively, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 227-242.
Bland, R., Clarke, M., Elsom, S.J., Epstein, M., Farhall, J., Fielding, J., Fossey, E., Leggatt, M., Liaw, S., Meadows, G., Olsen, A., Rosen, A., Singh, B., 2001, The active participants in mental health services: the mental health nurse, in Mental Health in Australia, eds Bruce Gillespie, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 136-162.
Brooker, J.E., Julian, J., Webber, L.S., Chan, J., Shawyer, F., Meadows, G.N., 2012, Evaluation of an occupational mindfulness program for staff employed in the disability sector in Australia, Mindfulness [P], vol 1, Springer, USA, pp. 1-15.
Simpson, K.R., Meadows, G.N., Frances, A.J., Patten, S.B., 2012, Is mental health in the Canadian population changing over time? , Canadian Journal Of Psychiatry-Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie [P], vol 57, issue 5, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canada, pp. 324-331.
Fossey, E., Harvey, C., Mokhtari, M.R., Meadows, G.N., 2012, Self-rated assessment of needs for mental health care: a qualitative analysis, Community Mental Health Journal [P], vol 48, issue 4, Springer New York LLC, United States, pp. 407-419.
Shawyer, F., Meadows, G., Judd, F., Martin, P., Segal, Z., Piterman, L., 2012, The DARE study of relapse prevention in depression: design for a phase 1/2 translational randomised controlled trial involving mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and supported self monitoring, BMC Psychiatry [P], vol 12, issue Art. No.: 3, BioMed Central Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 1-11.
Meadows, G., Bobevski, I., 2011, Changes in met perceived need for mental healthcare in Australia from 1997 to 2007, British Journal Of Psychiatry [P], vol 199, issue 6, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, pp. 479-484.
Graham, A., Julian, J., Meadows, G., 2010, Improving responses to depression and related disorders: Evaluation of a innovative, general, mental health care workers training program, International Journal of Mental Health Systems [E], vol 4, issue 25, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-13.
Prins, M., Meadows, G., Bobevski, I., Graham, A., Verhaak, P., van der Meer, K., Penninx, B., Bensing, J., 2010, Perceived need for mental health care and barriers to care in the Netherlands and Australia, Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology [P], vol 46, Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Germany, pp. 1033-1044.
Patten, S., Gordon-Brown, L., Meadows, G., 2010, Simulation studies of age-specific lifetime major depression prevalence, BMC Psychiatry [P], vol 10, issue Art. No. 85, BioMed Central Ltd, London UK, pp. 1-16.
Cornwell, K.A., Forbes, C.S., Inder, B.A., Meadows, G.N., 2009, Mental Illness and its effects on labour market outcomes, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics [P], vol 12, issue 3, International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Italy, pp. 107-118.
Tempier, R., Meadows, G.N., Mosier, K., Vasiliadis, H., Lesage, A., Stiller, A.L., Graham, A.L., Lepnurm, M., 2009, Mental disorders and mental health care in Canada and Australia: Comparative epidemiological findings, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, vol 44, Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Germany, pp. 63-72.
Patten, S.B., Meadows, G.N., 2009, Population-based service planning for implementation of MBCT: Linking epidemiologic data to practice, Psychiatric Services [P], vol 60, issue 11, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., USA, pp. 1540-1542.
Murphy, B., Simms, C., Dowling, R., Graham, A.L., Doherty, A., Meadows, G.N., 2009, The development of the Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis Service in Melbourne, Australia, Early Intervention in Psychiatry [P], vol 3, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing asia, Australia, pp. 151-156.
Blashki, G.A., Piterman, L., Meadows, G.N., Clarke, D.M., Prabaharan, V., Gunn, J., Judd, F., 2008, Impact of an educational intervention on general practitioners' skills in cognitive behavioural strategies: a randomised controlled trial., Medical Journal of Australia, vol 188, issue 12, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., Australia, pp. 129-132.
Joubert, J., Joubert, L., Reid, C.M., Barton, D.A., Cumming, T., Mitchell, P.J., House, M., Heng, R., Meadows, G.N., Walterfang, M., Pantelis, C., Ames, D.J., Davis, S., 2008, The positive effect of integrated care on depressive symptoms in stroke survivors, Cerebrovascular Diseases, vol 26, issue 2, S. Karger AG, Switzerland, pp. 199-205.
Sareen, J., Cox, B.J., Afifi, T.O., Stein, M.B., Belik, S., Meadows, G.N., Asmundson, G.J., 2007, Combat and peacekeeping operations in relation to prevalence of mental disorders and perceived need for mental health care: Findings from a large representative sample of military personnel, Archives of General Psychiatry, vol 64, issue 7, American Medical Association, USA, pp. 843-852.
Meadows, G.N., Harvey, C., Joubert, L., Barton, D.A., Bedi, G., 2007, The Consultation-Liaison in Primary-Care Psychiatry Program: A structured approach to long-term collaboration, Psychiatric Services, vol 58, issue 8, Amer Psychiatric Publishing Inc, USA, pp. 1036-1038.
Meadows, G.N., Martin, P.R., 2007, When to refer to a psychologist, Medicine Today, vol 8, issue 11, Medicine Today Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 61-65.
Monash, D.A., Richards, J.C., Blashki, G., Meadows, G.N., 2006, Are Australian medical students missing out on psychological skills?, Australian Family Physician [P], vol 35, issue 12, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australia, pp. 1011-1012.
Meadows, G., 2006, Meditation and depression, Mandala [P], vol 1, Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, USA, pp. 23-25.
Allen, N.B., Chambers, R., Knight, W., Blashki, G.A., Ciechomski, L.D., Hassed, C.S., Gullone, E., McNab, C.E.L., Meadows, G.N., 2006, Mindfulness-based psychotherapies: A review of conceptual foundations, empirical evidence and practical considerations, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol 40, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 285-294.
Allen, N.B., Knight, W., Blashki, G.A., Ciechomski, L.D., Hassed, C.S., Gullone, E., Chambers, R.H., McNab, C.E.L., Meadows, G.N., 2006, Response to 'mindfulness-based psychotherapies' (2) - Reply, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol 40, issue 9, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford England, pp. 819-821.
Mihalopoulos, C., Meadows, G.N., Stiller, A.L., Pirkis, J., Burgess, P., 2005, Attaching unit costs to Australia's national survey of mental health and wellbeing, The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, vol 8, issue 2, International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Italy, pp. 61-69.
Mihalopoulos, C., Kiropoulos, L.A., Shih, S.T., Gunn, J., Blashki, G.A., Meadows, G.N., 2005, Exploratory economic analyses of two primary care mental health projects: implications for sustainability, The Medical Journal of Australia, vol 183, issue 10 SUPPL, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty Ltd, Pyrmont NSW Australia, pp. S73-S76.
McNab, C.E.L., Meadows, G.N., 2005, The General-practice Users' Perceived-need Inventory ('GUPI'): a brief general practice tool to assist in bringing mental healthcare needs to professional attention, Primary Care Mental Health, vol 3, issue 2, Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 93-101.
King, R., Meadows, G.N., Le Bas, J., 2004, Compiling a caseload index for mental health case management, Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Psychiatry [P], vol 38, issue 6, Informa Healthcare, USA, pp. 455-462.
Meadows, G.N., 2003, Buddhism and psychiatry: confluence and conflict, Australasian Psychiatry [P], vol 11, issue 1, Informa Healthcare, UK, pp. 16-20.
Meadows, G.N., 2003, Overcoming barriers to reintegration of patients with schizophrenia: Developing a best-practice model for discharge from specialist care, Schizophrenia Research [P], vol 178, issue 9, Elsevier, USA, pp. 53-56.
Meadows, G.N., Singh, B., 2003, 'Victoria on the move' mental health services in a decade of transition 1992-2002, Australasian Psychiatry [E], vol 11, issue 1, Wiley, USA, pp. 62-67.
Meadows, G.N., Burgess, P., Bobevski, I., Fossey, E., Harvey, C., Liaw, S., 2002, Perceived need for mental health care: influences of diagnosis, demography and disability, Psychological Medicine, vol 32, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 299-309.
Meadows, G.N., Singh, B., Burgess, P., Bobevski, I., 2002, Psychiatry and the need for mental health care in Australia: findings from the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol 36, Blackwell Publishing Asia, Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 210-216.
Meadows, G.N., Liaw, T., Burgess, P., Bobevski, I., Fossey, E., 2001, Australian general practice and the meeting of needs for mental health care, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, vol 36, Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Germany, pp. 595-603.
Pirkis, J., Burgess, P., Meadows, G.N., Dunt, D., 2001, Self-reported needs for care among persons who have suicidal ideation or who have attempted suicide, Psychiatric Services, vol 52, issue 3, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., USA, pp. 381-383.
Meadows, G.N., Harvey, C., Fossey, E., Burgess, P., 2000, Assessing perceived need for mental health care in a community survey: development of the Perceived Need for Care Questionnaire (PNCQ), Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, vol 35, Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Germany, pp. 427-435.
Meadows, G.N., Burgess, P., Fossey, E., Harvey, C., 2000, Perceived need for mental health care, findings from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being, Psychological Medicine, vol 30, issue 3, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 645-656.
Meadows, G.N., Gray, J.L., Julian, J., 2005, Working on working together: Stepped models for traning of the mental health workforce, THEMHS Conference Book of Abstracts, 31 August - 2 September, TheMHS, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 84-85.
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