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Lecturer - Health Promotion
Qualifications: BA(Hons) MSc(Health Promotion) Current Studies: Doctor of Public Health (Curtin University)
Cathy O'Mullan has worked as a health promotion practitioner for over 20 years both here in Australia and in the UK. She has managed diverse programs within a number of government and non-government organisations across areas such as chronic disease, cancer, mental health and sexual health. Over the past 10 years, Cathy has specialised in the area of sexual health and is now completing her doctoral studies in this field.
Cathy has worked as a casual academic at CQUniversity since 2000, and was appointed to a permanent full time academic appointment in 2010.
2012 Opal Award -Excellence in Engagement Finalist (Engaged Research and Innovation)
2011 Healthy Queensland Awards - State Finalist (Workplace Category)
November 2012 - Antidepressants and sexual difficulties (Radio interview Bay FM 99.9)
October 2012 - Study checks links between antidepressants and sexual difficulties (Radio interview Hitz FM 93.9)
May 2012 - The Naked Truth - Skin Cancer (Radio Interview 4BU AM)
2010 - Present Lecturer (Health Promotion). Course co ordination, lecturing and research supervision.
Public Health Association Australia (PHAA)
Society of Australian Sexologists (SAS)
Committee Member (Phoenix House - Sexual Assault Service)
Course Co ordination and Lecturing
Supervision of Higher Degree by Research Students (Honours and Masters Degree )
Holistic Sexuality
Sexuality and Disability
Community Capacity Building
Madsen, W 2012, Showing and Growing Community Resilience in Theodore : community based participatory research project into community resilience in the wake of the 2010/11 floods project, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld., http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/923645
2012 Queensland Health $20,000 (Factors influencing sexual practices and illicit/licit drug use in mining populations'
2012 Learning and Teaching Research Centre (LTERC) $2800 (Understanding the impact of a rural leadership program for a rural community)
2011 Vice Chancellor's Engaged Research Grant $44,627 ( Showing and growing community resilience in Theodore)
O'Mullan C (2012) 'Raising up Women's Voices : Using IPA to Explore Sexual Difficulties', ASSERT National Conference, Melbourne. November 2012
O'Mullan C, Gorton, C ' (2012) Tracing the Footprints: Capturing the Growth of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Australia' National Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference, Melbourne.November 2012
O'Mullan C (2012) 'Sex and Academia: Unlikely Bed Fellows' Engagement Australia conference. Brisbane. July 2012
Madsen W, O'Mullan C (2012) 'Showing and Growing Community Resilience in the Aftermath of the Floods' Engagement Australia conference. Brisbane. July 2012
O'Mullan C, Madsen W, Schmidt J, Field D, Sorbello C (2010) ‘Getting Things Done: A Partnership Approach to Healthy Lifestyles' Australian Health Promotion Association National Conference. Melbourne. June 2010
Lewis R, Gorton C, Russell D, Pajo M, O'Mullan C (2008) ‘A Collaborative Approach to Hepatitis C Education, Prevention and Testing at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre' Oral Poster presentation. National Viral Hepatitis Conference, Brisbane. October 2008.
Harper R, Russell D, O'Mullan C (2008)' The Far North Qld Travellers HIV Project' Australasian Sexual Health Conference, Perth. September 2008.
O'Mullan C (2006) ‘Every Body Needs to Know: Sexuality and Disability' Australian Association Special Education Specialists (ASASES) State Conference, Cairns. November 2006.
O'Mullan C (2004)' Cape Capers: Promoting School Based Sexual Health in a Remote Community on Cape York' FPQ State Conference, Brisbane. May 2004
O'Mullan C ( 2004) ‘Sexual Suicide: The Impact of Mental Health on Sexuality' Australia/NZ Community Mental Health Nurse ( ANZCMHN) 6th Annual Tropical Symposium. Cairns 2004.
O'Mullan C (2003) ‘Performance Anxiety: Using the Performing Arts as a Sexual Health Promotion Strategy' FPQ State Conference, Brisbane. May 2003.
O'Mullan C (2002) ‘Responding to Sexually Inappropriate and Abusive Behaviour: The IMPROVE Model' Sharing the Road Disability State Conference, Mackay.
Research projects - 2012 - 2013
'Factors influencing sexual practices and licit/illicit drug use in a Central Queensland mining community' (Qld Health funded)
'Rural capacity building : understanding the impact of a leadership program for a rural community' ( LTERC grant)
Theodore in Our Own Words: Tales from a Resilient Community. (FRRR grant)
Research project - 2011 onwards
'Showing and Growing Community Resilience in Theodore' - community based participatory research project into community resilience in the wake of the 2010/11 floods. (VC's Engaged Research Grant)
Doctoral Thesis - 2010 onwards
A phenomenological study of female sexual dysfunction amongst women currently using Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) medication.
December 2012 -Research update: Antidepressants and sexual desire in females. (Australian Society Sexuality Educators, Researchers and Therapists (ASSERT)) Queensland State Meeting, Brisbane.
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