Associate Professor Yvonne Karen Parry
PhD, MHlthServMgmt, GradCertEdu (Higher Ed), BA (Psychology & Public Policy), RN
College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Caring Future Institute, Flinders University.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-2671
Dr Parry is Associate Professor at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University and has international standing in homelessness research and allyship with the homelessness sector and its clients, including children and families. Dr Parry’s research collaborations include the highly prestigious Inclusion Health, University
College London team (UK), and in Australia, the Towards Home Alliance, UnitingCare and other NGOs and industry partners. Testament to Dr Parry’s research impact, her findings have been included in reports for the Welsh Parliament, the UK government’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness and the United Nations
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Dr Parry’s collaborations led to a 2023 publication in the BMJ Archives of Disease in Childhood. Yvonne’s expertise in homeless health has been sought out by colleagues from De Montfort University, UK, The Children’s Society, British Association for Community Child Health.
Her research in child health and family homelessness has led to the implementation of community-embedded systems changes, including innovative models of care that encompass new health assessments and child development screening. She leads the development of a nurse practitioner model of care to improve child health outcomes, which linked homeless children and their families to community health and wellbeing services.
