Research output per year
Research output per year
Assistant Professor, RN NZ, GradDipClinEpi W.Aust., Dip Nursing Studies, PhD
The University of Western Australia (M431), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
I am a specialised mental health nurse and researcher with 30 years of clinical and epidemiological expertise. For over 25 of those years I have been employed by UWA. I have a broad range of interests, but underpinning all my research has been the aim to improve the lives and care of people living with mental illness.
From 1989-1993 I worked at the Institute of Psychiatry London, on a longitudinal survey examining morbidity and service usage of elderly people in Gospel Oak, North London and on an intervention study evaluating the effects of community psychiatric nurse intervention compared to usual general practitioner care on community dwelling depressed elderly people. In 1993 I received funding from the UK Health Department to develop and test a training package for primary health care workers in the recognition and management of depression in older people.
Since 1994, I have worked at UWA, successfully coordinated numerous research projects:
I have extensive experience as coordinator of multi-site collaborative research.
I believe the physical health of people with severe mental illness cannot be ignored and developed a metabolic screening algorithm which has been including in the Australian Clinical Guidelines for Early Psychosis and an adapted version is being used in NSW and New Zealand.
I have also:
I have an interest in ensuring research is conducted in an ethical manner and so support and mentor young researchers. In 2018, I wrote the content for a free, online course on ‘Conducting research in people with psychotic disorders or severe mental illness’ for the Western Australian Health Translation Network.
In 2020, in collaboration with South Metropolitan Mental Health Services, we conducted an audit of staff to better understand mental health care delivery in the time of a pandemic.
I am member of:
I am head of the Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit (NERU)
I am a UWA Research Integrity Advisor
The Diagnostic Interview for Psychosis, a semi-structured clinical interview which provides a diagnostic classification in accordance with ICD-10 and DSM-IV criteria was developed for the first national psychosis survey. I assisted in its development and continue to train national and international researchers and clinicians in its administration.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Ethics Committee, Schizophrenia International Research Society
Apr 2020 → …
Research Representative Human Research Ethics Committee, North Metropolitan Health Service
2019 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Morgan, V., McGrath, J., Galletly, C., Harvey, C., Castle, D., Cohen, M., Jablensky, A., Carr, V., Neil, A. & Waterreus, A.
National Health & Medical Research Council NHMRC
1/01/16 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Cockell Research Collaboration Awards
1/01/16 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Waterreus, Anna (Recipient), Nov 2020
Prize: Award
Waterreus, Anna (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Award
Castle, H. (Recipient) & Waterreus, Anna (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Other distinction