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Email

brightt@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Research Fellow, Disability and Health
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health - Centres and Institutes
Education
Doctorate
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University
Masters (Coursework & Research)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London
Masters (Coursework & Research)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0003-2079-7216

Dr Tess Bright

Senior Research Fellow, Disability and Health
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

49 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies: protocol for developmental evaluation of a comprehensive culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed, continuity of care(r) model
    DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1721107
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The critical role of lived experience reporting guidelines to improve research with young disabled people
    DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2026.2629898
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Interventions from pregnancy to two years after birth for parents experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder and/or with childhood experience of maltreatment: a Cochrane Review
    DOI: 10.1192/bja.2025.17
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Replanting the Birthing Trees: A Call to Transform Intergenerational Trauma into Cycles of Healing and Nurturing
    DOI: 10.3390/genealogy9020052
  • 2024

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Relighting the Firesticks: Accelerating Diffusion and Progressing to Sustainability of Innovative Care to Foster a Healthy Start to Life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families
  • 2024

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Improving Access to Health Services for Aboriginal People With Hearing Loss
  • 2022

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Replanting the Birthing Trees to Support First Nations Parents and Babies
Tess Bright

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2020
Cicely Williams Prize for PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    First Nations parents’ experiences of COVID-19 and associations with symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder
    DOI: 10.1016/j.fnhli.2025.100086
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Trauma-aware, healing-informed care to improve support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families - Implementation and evaluation study protocol
    DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085555
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Complex Trauma and Strengths Questionnaire: psychometric evaluation
    DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2024.2335917
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Clinician-rated quality of video otoscopy recordings and still images for the asynchronous assessment of middle-ear disease
    DOI: 10.1177/1357633X20987783
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Interventions from pregnancy to two years after birth for parents experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder and/or with childhood experience of maltreatment
    DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD014874.pub2
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Prevalence and impact of combined vision and hearing (dual sensory) impairment: A scoping review
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001905

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