Ms Makayla-May Brinckley

Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Makayla-May Brinckley is a Wiradjuri woman with family ties to Cootamundra, NSW.

After graduating from Psychology Honours from the ANU in 2019, she worked as a research assistant in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program in the Research School of Population Health. Makayla is now an Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, with much of her work based within Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing.

Makayla is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and taking a strengths-based and decolonial approach to health and wellbeing. 

Research

Research interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing

Epidemiology

Knowledge Translation 

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Projects