Pratima Durga
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Lecturer in BusinessContact Pratima Durga
Pratima completed her MBA at Central Queensland University (CQU) in 2009 and is currently completing her PhD at the same university. Her research thesis is entitled: "Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions." Pratima is also part of a team that won an interdisciplinary research grant from CQU. The project title is "Remote Health Access: Protecting vulnerable remote and regional populations with eHealth solutions."
Pratima has spent 23 years of her professional life working in the public service and has held several management roles in the private sector before joining higher education.
She oversees the undergraduate programs in Arts and Business, as well as lecturing in Business studies.
Qualifications
PhD (candidate) (Central Queensland University)
Dissertation Title Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions
2024
Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management) (Central Queensland University) 2009
Cert IV TAE (Ballistic Training Solutions) 2016
Current Research
Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions.
The proposed research will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of current practice of informal healthcare providers in rural and remote areas. This project will scope the quality of medical services, assess the shortage of formally-trained practitioners and the problems faced by talent retention in rural communities. The research will result in an improved empirical base on the prevalence of community-based medical practices in remote regions, and give insights that will be transferable to other remote settings, including remote and disadvantaged communities in Australia.
Book Chapters
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2023
- Durga, P. (2023). Overcoming religious distance: Epiphanies in cross-cultural settings In Johannes M. Luetz, Denise A. Austin & Adis Duderija, Interfaith Engagement Beyond the Divide: Approaches, Experiences, and Practices (pp. 283-298). Springer Nature, Singapore. | External link
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2022
- Muurlink, O., Durga, P., Awan, N. & Taylor Robinson, A.W.(2022). Success and its consequences: Bangladesh’s health report card at 50 In H. Khondker, O. Muurlink, & A. Bin Ali, The Emergence of Bangladesh (pp. Chapter 18 (pp339-354)). Palgrave Macmillan. | External link
Journal Articles
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2022
- Durga, P., Caffery, L. A., Muurlink, O. T., & Taylor‐Robinson, A. W.(2022). Under the regulatory radar: unregulated rural health in Bangladesh and Australia. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2022; 00:1–9.. | External link
Internal and External Grants
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2018
- Remote Health Access, $15000, Central Queensland University
Presentations
Academic Conference
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2023
- Scope of practice: Contrasting developments in rural and remote healthcare in Bangladesh and Australia (2023), World Rural Health Conference 2023, Sydney, Australia, 29 Oct 2023
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2020
- Innovation from necessity: two contrasting cases of remote area access (2020), 17th World Rural Health Conference, Online, 16 Apr 2020
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2018
- Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions (2018), CQU, Rockhampton, Australia, 02 Jul 2018
- Assessing informal and unregulated health care provision in rural and remote regions (2018), Business and Law Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 01 Jun 2018
Engagement Publications
Other Publications
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2020
- Durga, Pratima (2020). Central Highlands Community Wellbeing and Resilience during COVID-19 Report.
Professional Memberships
National Rural Health Alliance (since 2019)
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