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.

  • 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

  • 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.

Cover page of a book titled 'Cultural Safety in Health: Professional Practice, Pedagogy & Research' with a QR code and list of authors.

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.