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Email

avance@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Principal Fellow)
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health - Centres and Institutes
Education
Doctorate (Research)
Monash University
Masters (Coursework)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-7471-9769

A/Prof Alasdair Vance

Honorary (Principal Fellow)
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

186 Scholarly works
8 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Country revealing the way: evaluating Elder-governed cultural therapy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people with mental health conditions
    DOI: 10.5694/mja2.70019
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Indigenous Spirituality, Health, and Well-Being in the Young: Yarns With the Victorian Aboriginal Community
    DOI: 10.1177/10497323241274706
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Casting the Net for What Matters: The ALIVE National Consortium for Equitable WellBeing and Mental Health Systems Transformation
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Barriers to mental health care and possible solutions in the young: Yarns with the Victorian Aboriginal community
    DOI: 10.1177/00048674251384059
  • 2024

    Journal article

    ‘Doing culture’ in contemporary south-eastern Australia: how Indigenous people are creating and maintaining strong cultural identities for improved health and wellbeing
    DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-19146-w
  • 2019

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Bringing Family, Community, Culture and Country to the Centre of Health Care: Culturally Appropriate Models for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    Bringing Family, Community, Culture and Country to the Centre of Health Care: Culturally Appropriate Models for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People
Alasdair Vance

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2001
Doctor of Medicine Monash University
1998
M Medicine (Psychiatry) University of Melbourne
1997
Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    The Development of Elder-Governed Adjuvant Cultural Therapy for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Young People With Mental Health Conditions
    DOI: 10.1177/10497323241234010
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents
    DOI: 10.1177/00048674241246441
  • 2024

    Journal article

    ‘Country giving you a thing of it’: Elder-governed cultural therapy for Indigenous young people
    DOI: 10.1177/00048674241243256
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Culture, Health and Well-Being: Yarning with the Victorian First Nations Community
    DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v19i1.41307
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Roaming: Therapeutic and Design Practices for Indigenous Healing
    DOI: 10.1080/10464883.2024.2303919
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Country and community vs poverty and conflict: Teasing apart the key demographic and psychosocial resilience and risk factors for Indigenous clinic-referred children and adolescents
    DOI: 10.1177/00048674231187315

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2019

    Research Grant

    Bringing Family, Community, Culture and Country to the Centre of Health Care: Culturally Appropriate Models for Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People
  • 2012

    Research Grant

    Improving the Mental Health of Vulnerable Young People in Out of Home Care

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