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| Dr Brian McCoy, SJ |
 Dr Brian F McCoy, SJ is NHMRC Fellow for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at
La Trobe University.
In 1977 he was ordained as a priest for the Jesuit religious order within the Catholic Church. In 1989 he was a research officer with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Pat Dodson's Underlying Issues Unit). After the Royal Commission he moved to the desert region south of Halls Creek, in the Kimberley of WA (Kutjungka region). Over the next decade he was involved in church, sporting and cultural issues with the people of that region, including work with St John Ambulance (WA), supporting remote area emergency care and the teaching of first aid. In 2001 he returned to study, completing a PhD through the Centre for Health and Society in 2004. The title of his thesis was, Kanyirninpa: health, masculinity and wellbeing of desert Aboriginal men. The research was based in the Kutjungka region. In 2004 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, located within the Centre for Health and Society. |
