Susan Brumby

Position

Clinical Professor

Faculty

Faculty of Health

Department

School of Medicine

Contact

susan.brumby@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 55518460

Research interests

Clinical Associate Professor Brumby has made significant contribution to research and service delivery methods for engaging farm men and women in discussion about their own health, wellbeing and safety. This is often a serious challenge for agricultural industries, farmers and rural health workers. She has led the development and implementation of the Sustainable Farm Families program since its inception in 2003 and has extended its application across a broad range of agricultural industries and community sectors across Australia. This program has been evaluated and externally evaluated and published.

Teaching interests

Clinical Associate Professor Susan Brumby teaches and assesses in the postgraduate Agricultural Health and Medicine course and guest lectures to Year 1 or 2 medical students. She also co-supervises PhD students.

Awards

Clinical Associate Professor Brumby has received numerous awards recognising her contribution to rural health and has attracted over $3 million in grants and service delivery funding. In 2005, she received the Department of Human Services Award for outstanding contribution to rural health, and in 2006 a Victorian Travelling Fellowship. In 2009 she was recognised with the Victorian Regional Achievement and Community Career and Trade Development Award.

Projects

Clinical Associate Professor Brumby's report and recommendations from the Victorian Travelling Fellowship in 2006 was instrumental in setting up the design and five key areas for the National Centre for Farmer Health. She has trained and accredited 135 health professionals in the delivery of the program in every state. She has authored over 20 publications on farmer health, rural health and engagement and currently reviews for a number of journals related to Agromedicine and rural health. She serves on the Deakin/DH/DHS Strategic Alliance (BSW Region) Research Group and numerous advisory groups.

Publications

No publications found

Funded Projects at Deakin

Australian Competitive Grants

Sustainable Farm Families - future directions

Prof Susan Brumby, Mr Stuart Willder, Prof John Martin, Mr Matt McCarthy

RIRDC Grant - Research - Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation

2011: $27,035
2010: $47,715
2009: $115,000

Implementation and evaluation of a program to reduce alcohol and related problems among farm men and women

Prof David Mellor, Prof Marita Mc Cabe, Prof Lina Ricciardelli, Prof Susan Brumby

ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 1

2012: $86,138
2011: $82,946
2010: $81,660

Shhh hearing in a farming environment

Prof Susan Brumby, Ms Catherine Mercer-Grant, Dr Anthony Hogan, Dr Warwick Williams

NHMRC Project Grant

2016: $549
2014: $66,025
2013: $220,372
2012: $264,126

Developing industry human capital through health, wellbeing, safety and resilience

A/Prof Tanya King, Prof Susan Brumby

FRDC Grant - Research - Fisheries Research & Development Corporation

2018: $46,390
2017: $41,780
2016: $42,780

A Whole of Community Systems Approach to Co-Designing and Implementing a Safe Spaces Model of Primary Healthcare for Sexuality Diverse Young People in Western Victoria

Dr Alison Kennedy, Dr James Lucas, Dr Amie O'Shea, Prof Susan Brumby, Mr Matt Dixon, Mrs Merrin Wake, Prof Suzanne Robinson, Prof Gary Rogers, A/Prof Andrew Giddy, Ms Holly Kercheval, Dr Joanna Macdonald

MRFF (NHMRC) - Models of care for Sexuality & Gender Diverse People & People with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics

2024: $529,189

Other Public Sector Funding

Implementation and evaluation of a program to reduce alcohol and related problems among farm men and women

Prof David Mellor, Prof Marita Mc Cabe, Prof Lina Ricciardelli, Prof Susan Brumby

WDHS Western District Health Service

2010: $77,000

Farming Fit?: Depression and obesity in farm men and women

Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Ananda Chandrasekara, Dr Scott McCoombe, Dr Peter Kremer, A/Prof Paul Lewandowski

Beyondblue Grant - Research

2011: $49,650
2010: $39,720
2009: $9,930

National Centre for Farmer Health research

Dr Alison Kennedy, Prof Gary Rogers, Prof Karen Dwyer, Dr Jacquie Cotton, Prof Susan Brumby

Western District Health Service

2024: $202,702
2023: $462,259
2022: $263,096
2021: $223,983
2020: $119,514

Primary Producer Knowledge Network.

Dr Alison Kennedy, Prof Susan Brumby, Prof Vincent Versace, A/Prof Kevin Mc Namara

Victorian Workcover Authority (WorkSafe Vic) - Partnership

2023: $75,000
2022: $121,600
2021: $143,200
2020: $71,600

Research for National Centre for Farmer Health 2018-2020

Prof Karen Dwyer, Dr Alison Kennedy, Dr Jacquie Cotton, Prof Susan Brumby, Prof Gary Rogers

Western District Health Service

2020: $668,421

Evaluation of Community Resilience and Rapid Review.

Dr Alison Kennedy, Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Jacquie Cotton

Department of Health and Human Services - Victoria

2023: $325,955
2022: $68,292
2021: $158,708

Influencing a culture of safety on farms project.

Dr Jacquie Cotton, Prof Susan Brumby

Department of Jobs, Precincts & Regions

2021: $50,928

Measuring the Culture of Safety on Farms Project.

Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Jacquie Cotton, Prof Vincent Versace, Dr Alison Kennedy

Department of Jobs, Precincts & Regions

2021: $147,722

Agriculture Chemical Use Mapping

A/Prof Robert Faggian, Dr Jacquie Cotton, A/Prof Victor Sposito, Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Madeleine Johnson, Ms Rebecca Bartel

Monash University (Institute for Safety Compensation and Recovery Research)

2022: $138,695
2021: $50,355

Industry and Other Funding

The Ripple Effect - Reducing perceived stigma among farmers with a lived experience of suicide

Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Alison Kennedy

Beyondblue Grant - Research

2017: $154,072
2015: $154,734

In-field Personalised Cholinesterase Assessment Project: A foundation for identification and informed intervention (In-field PCAP)

Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Jacquie Cotton, A/Prof John Edwards, Ms Tamara Phillips

Shepherd Foundation Grant - Research

2016: $58,072

Farm-related major trauma in Victoria and both the long-term and immediate impact on recovery

Prof Daryl Pedler, Miss Meg Murray, Ms Jessica Beattie, Prof Belinda Gabbe, Prof Susan Brumby

Western Alliance

2016: $40,000

Development and evaluation of e-mental health interventions to reduce stigmatization of suicidality.

Prof Susan Brumby, Dr Alison Kennedy

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

2020: $17,500
2018: $30,653

Co-designing a peer-led approach to improve mental health in rural farming communities

Dr Alison Kennedy, Prof Susan Brumby, Prof Vincent Versace

Western Victoria Primary Health Network Limited

2022: $17,968
2021: $52,968
2020: $75,000

Mental health at the Covid-19 frontline: An assessment of distress, anxiety and coping from staff and attendees at screening clinics.

Prof Susan Brumby

Western Alliance

2021: $15,000
2020: $15,000

Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

2024

Jessie Adams

Thesis entitled: Injury Risk and Safety Behaviours of Children on Victorian Farms

Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine), School of Medicine

2019

Kathryn Louise Kloot

Thesis entitled: Rural paramedic choice of destination hospital for paediatric patients

Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine), School of Medicine

Associate Supervisor

2013

Nicole Jeffery-Dawes

Thesis entitled: Depression, Anxiety and Metabolic Syndrome in Farm Men and Women

Doctor of Psychology (Health), School of Psychology