Big ideas, real impact.
Co-design, Collaboration + Community Engagement leading to real world change.
My research has been cited >7,800 times, h-index = 38 (Google Scholar) in academic literature, and >60 times in policy documents across 13 countries. I have lived and worked in 3 countries with collaborators across 5 continents. As an impact specialist, I’m focused on how systems are designed and how programs and services deliver (or not) on what they aim to achieve.
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Resilience
Zautra, A.J., Hall, J.S., & Murray, K.E. (2010). Resilience: A new definition of health for people and communities. In J.R. Reich, A.J. Zautra, & J.S. Hall (Eds). Handbook of Adult Resilience (pp. 3-30). New York: Guilford. (cited >1000 times, Google Scholar)
Zautra, A.J., Hall, J.S. & Murray, K.E. (2008). Resilience a new integrative approach to health and mental health research. Health Psychology Review, 2, 41-64. doi: /10.1080/17437190802298568
Zautra, A.J., Hall, J.S. & Murray, K.E. (2008). Community development and community resilience: An integrative approach. Community Development:Journal of the Community Development Society, 39, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/15575330809489673
Castro, F.G., & Murray, K.E. (2010). Cultural adaptation and resilience: Controversies, issues and emerging models. In J.R. Reich, A.J. Zautra, & J.S. Hall (Eds). Handbook of Adult Resilience (pp. 375-403). New York: Guilford.
Refugee + Migrant Mental Health
Davidson, G.R., Murray, K.E., & Schweitzer, R.D. (2010). Review of refugee mental health assessment: Best practices and recommendations. Journal of the Pacific Rim Psychology, 4, 72-85. doi: 10.1375/prp.4.1.72. (cited >670 times, Google Scholar)
Murray, K.E., & Marx, D.M. (2013). Attitudes toward unauthorized immigrants, authorized immigrants, and refugees. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 19, 332-341. doi: 10.1037/a0030812
Garcini, L.M., Murray, K.E., Zhou, A. Klonoff, E.A., Myers, M.G., & Elder, J.P. (2016). Mental health of undocumented immigrants in the United States: A systematic review of methodology and findings. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 14(1), 1-25. doi:10.1080/15562948.2014.998849
Davidson, G.R., Murray, K.E., & Schweitzer, R. (2008). Review of refugee mental health and wellbeing: Australian perspectives. Australian Psychologist, 43, 160-174. doi: 10.1080/00050060802163041
Ellis, B.H., Winer, J., Murray, K.E., & Barrett, C. (2019). Understanding the mental health of refugees: Trauma, stress and the cultural context. In N. Trinh (Ed.), The Massachusetts General Hospital Guide to Cultural Sensitivity (pp. 253-273). New York: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20174-6_13
Murray, K.E., Ermias, A., Lung, A., Sheik Mohamed, A., Ellis, H., et al. (2017). Culturally adapting a physical activity intervention for Somali women: The need for theory and innovation to promote equity. Journal of Translational Behavioral Medicine, 7(1), 6-15. doi:10.1007/s13142-016-0436-2.
Murray, K.E., Meuter, R.F.I., Cox, M., & Ostapiej-Piatkowski, B. (2022). An ongoing challenge: The impact of federal policies on organisations, communities and individuals serving people seeking asylum. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 57(3), 709-724. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.194
Clinical Assessment + Intervention
Valera, E.M., Faraone, S.V., Murray, K.E., & Seidman, L.J. (2007). Meta-analysis of structural imaging findings in ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 1361-1369. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.06.011. (cited >1300 times, Google Scholar)
Schweitzer, R.D., Vromans, L., Brough, M., Asic-Kobe, M., Correa-Velez, I., Murray, K., & Lenette, C. (2018). Recently resettled refugee Women-at-risk in Australia evidence high levels of psychiatric symptoms: Individual, trauma and post-migration factors predict outcomes. BMC Medicine, 16: 149. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1143-2
Lennette, C., Brough, M., Schweitzer, R.D., Correa-Velez, I., Murray, K.E., & Vromans, L. (2019). ‘Better than a pill’: Digital story telling as a narrative process for refugee women. Media Practice and Education, 20(1), 67-86. doi: 10.1080/25741136.2018.1464740
van Wyk, S., Schweitzer, R., Brough, M., Vromans, L., & Murray, K.E. (2012). A longitudinal study of mental health in refugees from Burma: The impact of treatment. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 46, 995-1003. doi:10.1177/0004867412443059
Murray, K.E., Buul, A., Aden, R., Cavanaugh, A., Kidane, L., Hussein, M., Eastman, A., & Checkoway, H. (2017). Occupational health risks and intervention strategies for US taxi drivers. Health Promotion International, 34(2), 323-332. doi: 10.1093/heapro/dax082
Simes, D., Shochet, I., Murray, K.E., & Sands, I. (2021). A systematic review of qualitative research of the experiences of young people and their caregivers affected by suicidality and self-harm: Implications for family-based treatment. Adolescent Research Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-021-00164-3
Forooshani, S.A., Murray, K.E., Izadikhah, Z., & Khawaja, N. (2021). Identifying the links between trauma and social adjustment: Implications for more effective psychotherapy with traumatized youth. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 666807.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.666807
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Competitive Research Grants (>$3m awarded in past 10 years)
Co-designing a Food Sovereignty Model with Indigenous Communities (Australian Research Council, Indigenous Discovery Grant, current)
NAVICARE: Implementing, scaling up and sustaining a co-designed care navigation model to improve mental health service access in regional Australia (Associate Investigator, National Health and Medical Research Council, current)
Australia Awards Africa Short Course: Mental Health Care Management in a Public Health Context (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
Rapid Review of Evidence of effectiveness of models of trauma informed care for vulnerable children (Sax Institute)
Developing Best Practice for Settlement Services for Refugee Women-at-Risk (Australian Research Council)
Recent Projects
The Palgrave Handbook of Mental Health Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa (2025) authors include mental health practitioners from across Sub-Saharan Africa who were part of a 2019 international mental health program held in Brisbane, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa. The chapters of the book cover a broad range of clinical, developmental, geographic, and practice topics relevant to practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa and those seeking new perspectives in global mental health.
Cultural Safety in Health: Professional Practice, Pedagogy & Research (2025)
is an Open Access undergraduate teaching textbook launched in 2025 and integrated into a range of undergraduate courses for future health professionals. The book aims to provide health students, their educators and practicing health professionals with an in-depth understanding of cultural safety and guidance on developing the key skills required to ensure culturally safe and respectful care in diverse health professions.