Dr Matthew McGrail (left) from the Centre for Research Excellence with Professor Wei Luo and Professor Jim Wilson outside the Department of Geography building, Northern Illinois University.

Dr Matthew McGrail was awarded the 2014 APHCRI Robert Graham Center Visiting Fellowship in September for his project ‘Rural PHC access measures: Applicability to workforce planning and policies’.

Matthew’s Fellowship allowed him with to travel to the Robert Graham Centre based in Washington DC for five weeks from 20 October. He spent time meeting with staff, sharing his expertise on access measurement and its application to health services planning and policy, comparing methodologies and data availability, and exploring new research learnings. Notably, this research is exploring the wider application of Matthew’s Index of Access in other settings.

Matthew also visited the Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Department of Geography at the Northern Illinois University, DeKalb where he presented a seminar entitled “GIS and rural health policy development: Lessons from Australia”.

He also attended the North American Primary Care Research Group Conference held in New York.

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