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Matthew Stevens trained in Australian Environmental Studies with majors in applied mathematics and statistics, and ecology. He previously worked as a consultant statistician on a range of projects including community bird ecology, training of ambulance call out operators, and use of drop in centres by homeless teenagers. Matthew then worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics' in the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics (NCATSIS), before commencing project work at Menzies School of Health Research. He is currently completing his PhD at MSHR through the Charles Darwin University where he is an Adjunct Research Fellow, and is supervised by Professor Ross Bailie and Associate Professor Joan Cunningham. Matthew is expected to complete his PhD in mid 2006. His current research interests include multivariate statistical analysis (multiple outcomes and explanatory variables), using large-scale administrative and routinely collected data in evaluation and monitoring of programs and service delivery, improving data quality of routinely collected data through the application of a data quality framework leading improved data systems and training outcomes, social and environmental determinants of health in discrete Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, community and neighbourhood contexts and their relation to community health, and mapping health related infrastructure in Aboriginal communities with a strong focus on provision of appropriate housing.
Original Research 19 February 2007
				The Australian Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway					
					
						
					
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				Pleasure and suffering in the rural nurse’s work process					
					
						
					
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				Clinical courage in rural Asia: a Philippine perspective					
					
						
					
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				Rural Mental Health Conference 2025 (RMHC25), 5–7 November 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia		
					
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				OECD Latin American Rural Development Conference, 25–28 November 2025, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		
					
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				SARGA 2026, Rural Generalist Anaesthetist Conference, 12–14 February 2026, Barossa Valley, South Australia		
					
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				Preventive Mental Health Conference 2026, Parramatta, Dharug Country, Australia, 24 & 25 March 2026		
					
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				21st WONCA World Rural Health Conference, 10–13 April 2026, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand		
					
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				33rd Annual Rural and Remote Medicine Conference, 16–18 April 2026, Quebec City, Canada		
					
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				4th EURACT Medical Education Conference, 23–25 April 2026, Iasi, Romania		
					
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				11th Health Promotion Conference, 10–12 June 2026, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Harstad, Norway		
					
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				9th WONCA Africa Region Conference 2026, 10 & 11 September 2026, Gaborone, Botswana		
					
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18th National Rural Health Conference, 14–17 September 2026, Adelaide, SA, Australia
				World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference 2026, 17–19 September 2026, Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), New Zealand		
					
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				5th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference, 8–10 June 2027, Larrakia Country, Darwin, NT, Australia 		
					
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