Dr Dolly Baliunas
| Name | Dr Dolly Baliunas |
|---|---|
| Email Address | dolly.baliunas@unisq.edu.au |
| Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Public Health) |
| Qualifications | BSc Western Ontario, MSc Toronto, PhD Toronto |
| Department | School of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Affiliations | Centre for Health Research |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5685-0715 |
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Biography
Dr Dolly Baliunas is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the School of Health and Medical Science at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) and a member of the Centre for Health Research. She also holds appointments at the University of Queensland (Centre for Health Services Research), and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Addiction Program).
Dolly trained as an Epidemiologist and applied this training while working in research and quality improvement initiatives within the healthcare sector in prior to moving to Australia in 2020. Dolly’s research has focused on Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) and tobacco control and methods application to questions dealing with predictors of treatment success and optimisation, including the novel use of digital health approaches to facilitate clinical interactions between patients and providers. She is interested in various clinical treatments, including prescribed medicines, are implemented at a population-level, and their safety and effectiveness in real-world settings. She is also interested in stigma, healthcare stigma, and compassion and how these factors present themselves and affect the healthcare experiences of people who use drugs.
Employment
| Position | Organisation | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer in Public Health | School of Health and Medical Sciences, Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland | 2023 | |
| Senior Research Fellow | School of Public Health, University of Queensland | 2000 | 2023 |
| Project Scientist | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | 2014 | 2020 |
Fields of Research
- 420201. Behavioural epidemiology
- 420210. Social epidemiology
- 420302. Digital health
- 420303. Family care
- 420304. General practice
- 420312. Implementation science and evaluation
- 420313. Mental health services
- 420319. Primary health care
- 420321. Rural and remote health services
- 420602. Health equity
- 420605. Preventative health care
Professional Membership
| Professional Membership | Year |
|---|---|
| Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs | |
| Australasian Epidemiological Association | |
| Professional Development Committee - Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia | |
| Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco |
BSc
Western Ontario
2000
MSc
Toronto
2004
PhD
Toronto
2011
Supervision Interests
Mixed methods or quantitative approaches to: smoking cessation, smoking cessation treatment, alcohol and other drug use, healthcare service optimisation, stigma, healthcare stigma, compassion.
She also has extensive expertise and is able to supervise projects in the areas of: the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys for health research; secondary data analysis of large-scale complex surveys; digital health approaches to AOD treatment optimisation, routinely-collected healthcare data (administrative healthcare data).
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| A multi-method study to evaluate the association of green and blue spaces with loneliness and physical activity. | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |