Gillian S. Gould PhD, MA, MBChB

Dr. Gould’s primary research focus is strategies to improve the risks from tobacco smoking for Indigenous Australians. Gould is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow (Australian Public Health and Health Services) at the University of Newcastle since January 2015 and a CINSW Research Fellow since 2016. The focus of the fellowships is improving cessation strategies for pregnant Indigenous smokers. Gould completed her Ph.D. Public Health in December 2014, the topic ‘Making Salient Messages for Indigenous Tobacco Control’. She currently has major funding from the NHMRC and Global Alliance for Chronic Disease for an innovative intervention to aid pregnant Indigenous smokers to quit called SISTAQUIT. She has been awarded seven grants and awards from the RACGP Foundation, including a Chris Silagy Research Scholarship.

Dr. Gould is a GP and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist with nearly a decade of the academic experience at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine 2002-2011 as a senior lecturer, Head of Campus of Rural Clinical School Coffs Harbour (2 yrs), and senior research fellow (2 yrs). She qualified with an MBChB (University of Leeds UK 1976) and MA (Arts Therapy 2003), a Grad Dip Creative and Experiential Arts Therapy (1999), and a Dip Drama (1980). Gould's GP experience is over 30years in the UK, NZ, and Australia (vocationally registered with Health Insurance Commission and on specialist and generalist registers Medical Board of Australia) including visiting medical officer (VMO) Refugee Health at Coffs Harbour Health Campus, and VMO in Drug and Alcohol in Hunter New England.