Senior Research Fellow Kerryn O'Rourke

I am a social scientist working for public health equity. I am employed as a Senior Research Fellow and Associate Lead of the Realist Research, Evaluation & Learning Initiative (RREALI) in the Northern Institute. Realist research asks how, why, in what circumstances and for whom policies and programs work. My work spans primary prevention of health inequities, through to the social dimensions of health service quality.

Research Interests:

• Realist methodology (realist evaluation, realist review and realist social research)
• Social determinants of health in/equity
• Social change for health
• Social dimensions of health care quality
• Care navigator roles for health equity
• Maternity care quality
• Doula support
• Preventing and responding to domestic, family & sexual violence