Rate My Professor Hazel Dalton

In addition to her honorary role at Newcastle, Dr Dalton is Senior Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University's Rural Health Research Institute, where she leads efforts in knowledge translation, co-design, and evaluation of rural health interventions. Her research focuses on rural and remote mental health services, health equity, and policy influence, evidenced by pivotal contributions such as the Orange Declaration on rural and remote mental health (2019, Australian Journal of Rural Health) and the International declaration on rural mental health research (2024). Select publications include "Co-creating community wellbeing initiatives: what is the evidence and how do they work?" (2024), "Lessons from the development and delivery of a rural suicide prevention program" (2021), and "Teen Clinic - An integrated primary healthcare model" (2023). Awards recognizing her impact encompass the Waratah Research Network Research Impact Showcase (2022) and Emerging Research Abstract Award (2024). Dalton has shaped policy through submissions to parliamentary inquiries and contributed to funded projects like the Central Coast Integrated Care Program and MRFF grants on disaster resilience and Aboriginal health.