{"id":2601,"date":"2014-03-03T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T05:00:25","slug":"mee-matthew-mcgrail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/03\/03\/mee-matthew-mcgrail\/","title":{"rendered":"Over the back fence with Matthew McGrail"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Matthew

Matthew McGrail<\/p><\/div>\n

Your name and position<\/strong>
\nDr Matthew McGrail
\nSenior Research Fellow (based at the School of Rural Health \u2013 Churchill)<\/p>\n

Describe your role<\/strong>
\nAs a full-time researcher I\u2019m leading two major projects: MABEL<\/a> (Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life) with the CRE in Medical Workforce Dynamics where I lead the rural medical workforce supply and distribution research theme; and the CRE in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care<\/a>. The main \u201cdeliverable\u201d for this second project is the Index of Access, where I lead our research team on improved measures of access to primary health care services in rural areas.<\/p>\n

Why is it important? <\/strong>
\nAs a metro-bred researcher who\u2019s moved to rural, I\u2019m highly conscious of the poorer access rural people have to healthcare services and generally poorer health outcomes. Finding better ways to give people access to the services they need is important for minimising health inequalities.<\/p>\n

What is the best aspect of your work with the School of Rural Health? <\/strong>
\nI love the autonomy I have in my role; I\u2019m given a fairly long leash! My background is in maths, IT and statistics. This role brings together my love of analysing data and using that to improve rural health outcomes.<\/p>\n

When you are not at work, what do you enjoy doing?<\/strong>
\nJanelle and I have twins in grade 6, so I spend a lot of time with them. They\u2019re at a fun age at the moment. I also like long distance running. But right at the moment I\u2019m injured and can\u2019t run, which is a sore point. When I can run, I like getting out and enjoying the outdoors.<\/p>\n

What was your most recent holiday destination and why did you choose it? <\/strong>
\nCan I talk about the holiday coming up in a month? We\u2019re spending three weeks in the USA and taking the kids to visit Disneyland in California while we\u2019re there.<\/p>\n

If you were Emperor for a day, what is one thing you would implement? <\/strong>
\nI\u2019d like fairer distribution of all sorts of resources and opportunities. It\u2019s what drives the Index of Access: making sure rural people get a fair go in their health.<\/p>\n

Surprise us! What is something about you that most of your peers would not know? <\/strong>
\nI\u2019m not a product of a rural upbringing. I went to Melbourne High then Melbourne University so I\u2019m inner-city metro-bred, but I love rural. Where many young people leave rural areas for the city, I ran in the other direction after study and went rural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your name and position Dr Matthew McGrail Senior Research Fellow (based at the School of Rural Health \u2013 Churchill) Describe your role As a full-time researcher I\u2019m leading two major projects: MABEL (Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life) with the CRE in Medical Workforce Dynamics where I lead the rural medical workforce supply and […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,2080],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}