Dr Zoe Papinczak
Senior Research Officer
Mental Health Evaluation Research Stream
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Human Movement & Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland
Email:
Zoe is a Senior Research Officer with the Mental Health Evaluation Research Stream at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), where she leads large-scale evaluation projects that seek to enhance mental health services within Queensland. During her time at QCMHR, she has worked on several state-wide evaluations for Queensland Health - including of their Crisis Support Spaces, Adolescent Day Program, and Step-Up-Step-Down Programs.
Zoe also holds an appointment as an Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Human Movement & Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland (UQ). Her research work in academia has largely focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions that seek to promote positive health behaviours and which improve social and mental health outcomes. Previously, she developed and trialled a behavioural support program (Active Choices) for the Department of Veterans Affairs, with the aim of increasing self-managed physical activity and social connectedness in Australian Defence Force veterans. Zoe has also designed and evaluated a brief motivational intervention for cannabis users (iAx), which is now in routine use at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
In addition to her work as a researcher, Zoe has held roles in health consulting where she assisted State and Federal Government agencies, PHNs and peak bodies to design, implement, review and evaluate their health services, programs and policies. Zoe's educational background in psychology, having completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science (2013) and Doctor of Philosophy (2020) in this discipline.