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Role Team Leader / Principal Research Fellow
Research area Population Health

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Associate Professor Graham Gee is an Aboriginal-Chinese man, also with Celtic heritage, originally from Darwin. His Aboriginal-Chinese grandfather was born near Belyuen on Larrakia Country.

Graham is a clinical psychologist and worked at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service for 11 years before taking up a Senior Research Fellow position at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His area of research is healing and recovery from complex trauma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with an increasing focus on child sexual abuse.

In 2022, Graham received a Fellowship from the Eisen Family Private Fund that has supported his team to commence formative work with a Coalition of Victorian Aboriginal services dedicated to healing child sexual abuse. In 2023, he received an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant to progress this work with 6 Victorian Aboriginal services partners and survivors of child sexual abuse.

Among other advisory roles, Graham sits on the National Clinical Reference Group for the Attorney General’s Office and Cabinet National Office for Child Safety, and the Research Advisory Committee for the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse.
Associate Professor Graham Gee is an Aboriginal-Chinese man, also with Celtic heritage, originally from Darwin. His Aboriginal-Chinese grandfather was born near Belyuen on Larrakia Country.

Graham is a clinical psychologist and worked at the...
Associate Professor Graham Gee is an Aboriginal-Chinese man, also with Celtic heritage, originally from Darwin. His Aboriginal-Chinese grandfather was born near Belyuen on Larrakia Country.

Graham is a clinical psychologist and worked at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service for 11 years before taking up a Senior Research Fellow position at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. His area of research is healing and recovery from complex trauma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with an increasing focus on child sexual abuse.

In 2022, Graham received a Fellowship from the Eisen Family Private Fund that has supported his team to commence formative work with a Coalition of Victorian Aboriginal services dedicated to healing child sexual abuse. In 2023, he received an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant to progress this work with 6 Victorian Aboriginal services partners and survivors of child sexual abuse.

Among other advisory roles, Graham sits on the National Clinical Reference Group for the Attorney General’s Office and Cabinet National Office for Child Safety, and the Research Advisory Committee for the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse.

Top Publications

  • Mulder, S, Thompson, L, Sheridan, S, Charles, L, Munro-Harrison, E, Kennedy, H, Blow, N, Brown, SJ, Gee, G. ‘Wellah planted a good seed’: How an online health and wellbeing program supported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples during the COVID-19 pandemic. 1: 100005 2023
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  • Reid, C, Gee, G, Bennetts, SK, Clark, Y, Atkinson, C, Dyall, D, Nicholson, JM, Chamberlain, C. Using participatory action research to co-design perinatal support strategies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents experiencing complex trauma.. Women Birth 35(5) : e494 -e501 2022
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  • Brown, A, Mensah, F, Gee, G, Paradies, Y, French, S, Waters, L, Arabena, K, Armstrong, G, Nicholson, J, Brown, SJ, et al. Evaluation of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander strengths based coaching program: a study protocol.. BMC Public Health 21(1) : 1451 2021
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  • Brown, S, Glover, K, Leane, C, Gartland, D, Nikolof, A, Weetra, D, Mensah, F, Giallo, R, Reilly, S, Middleton, P, et al. Aboriginal Families Study Policy Brief No 6: Social health issues – time for action. 2021
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  • Brown, S, Glover, K, Leane, C, Gartland, D, Nikolof, A, Weetra, D, Mensah, F, Giallo, R, Reilly, S, Middleton, P, et al. Aboriginal Families Study Policy Brief No 7: Health consequences of family and community violence. 2021
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