Clare Mangoyana

Clare Mangoyana is a PhD Candidate and Principal Project Officer in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, where she also serves as Principal Research and Project Officer. She holds a Master of Public Health and a qualification in Dental Public Health. Mangoyana brings a diverse background spanning clinical dentistry, academia, public health, management, and research coordination. She has over five years of experience in health services research and has worked closely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in community-controlled health services and organisations, contributing to research across multiple disciplines.

Her academic interests center on health services research and First Nations cancer and wellbeing. She contributes to key projects including the CanCo - First Nations Cancer Cohort within the First Nations Cancer and Wellbeing Research Program, an Aboriginal-led multidisciplinary initiative focused on cancer prevention, survivorship, and psychosocial care using culturally sensitive, co-designed methods, and Miyil-Janay Yundu - Looking After Yourself. Previously, Mangoyana was an ATH Lecturer/Research Fellow at the UQ School of Dentistry. Her peer-reviewed publications include "Developing integrated healthcare models for Indigenous people: Insights from a relational systematic scoping review" (2026, Journal of Community Health); "Indigenous people's perspectives on sharing health data for service delivery purposes: an inquiry using Indigenous methodologies" (2025, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific); "Patient experience of a student-led rural Indigenous outplacement dental clinic" (2025, Australian Journal of Rural Health); "Positive impacts of oral health services provision by a student‐led primary care clinic to an Australian rural Indigenous community" (2023, Australian Dental Journal); "Positive oral health outcomes: A partnership model improves care in a rural Indigenous community" (2022, Australian Journal of Rural Health); and "Oral health: epidemiology and concordance in Australian children and parents" (2021, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology).