Person
Kalucy, Elizabeth Carment (Libby)
OAM
- Occupation
- Entomologist and Health care researcher
Summary
Libby Kalucy is one of Australia's leaders in community health care research and evaluation. After an initial career as the first Entomologist appointed to the Australian Army's malarial research laboratory, she moved into the health care sector. At Flinders University she was Evaluation Manager of the SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care Trial. This led to her appointment as Director of the Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, a national organisation to generate, manage and share information about primary health care research and activities across Australia.
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Chronology
- ? - 1969
- Career position - Entomologist, 1 Malaria Research Laboratory, Australian Army
- 1966
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Sydney
- 1969
- Education - MSc (entomology), University of Sydney
- 1988 - 1997
- Career position - Medical researcher, Southern Community Health Research Unit, South Australia
- 1997 - 2000
- Career position - Manager, Evaluation of SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care Trial, Centre for Health Care Evaluation, Flinders University
- 2001 - 2010
- Career position - Director, Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, Flinders University
- 2009 - 2014
- Career position - Editor-in-Chief, Australian journal of primary health
- 2010 -
- Career position - Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University
- 2012
- Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to community health, and to the development of professional standards
- 2015 -
- Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Australian journal of primary health
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Published resources
Articles
- Lewis, Virginia and Kenny, Amanda, 'Celebrating the contribution of Libby Kalucy', Australian journal of primary health, 21 (1) (2015), 1, https://doi.org/10.1071/PYv21n1_ED. Details
See also
- Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division [Queen's Birthday 2012: F-L], Governor General's Office, Canberra, 2012, https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20190510165629mp_/https:/www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2012/Media%20Notes%20OAM%20%28F-L%29%20%28final%29%281%29.pdf. Details
- Howie-Willis, Ian, '"A near-run thing": the foundation and early years of 1 Malaria Research Laboratory, forerunner of the Australian Army Malaria Institute, 1963 - 1969 (part 4 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology")', Journal of Military and Veterans' History, 25 (2) (2017), 69-84. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 12 February 2019