PhD Candidate
MBBS (hon) DCH FACD
Dr Bernadette Ricciardo is a PhD student on the Koolungar Moorditj Healthy Skin project, the first Australian co-designed research-service study to describe skin health and disease in urban-living Aboriginal children and young people. Dr Ricciardo is also a consultant dermatologist at Fiona Stanley Hospital and the Perth Children’s Hospital, and she provides dermatology out-reach to Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service Aboriginal Corporation. She sits on the Australasian College of Dermatologist’s Academic Research Committee and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee. She has a broad range of research interests within the fields of Dermatology and Aboriginal Health.
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January 2024
Describing skin health and disease in urban-living Aboriginal children: co-design, development and feasibility testing of the Koolungar Moorditj Healthy Skin pilot project
Indigenous children in colonised nations experience high rates of health disparities linked to historical trauma resulting from displacement and dispossession, as well as ongoing systemic racism. Skin infections and their complications are one such health inequity, with the highest global burden described in remote-living Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully referred to as Aboriginal) children. Yet despite increasing urbanisation, little is known about the skin infection burden for urban-living Aboriginal children.
Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing Subsite: Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Subsite: END RHD Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Strep A Pathogenesis and Diagnostics Strep A & ARF Therapeutics -
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