Deputy Director
Dr Elizabeth Holmes-Truscott (PhD, health psychology) is a Senior Research Fellow at ACBRD. Since joining the Centre in 2010, Elizabeth has led a varied program of applied research examining psychosocial aspects of diabetes. Her work currently focuses on: a) understanding and addressing diabetes stigma; b) understanding and reducing barriers to optimal health and self-care behaviours , and; c) the promotion of person-reported outcome assessment tools alongside biomedical markers. Elizabeth is Behavioural Platform lead for the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI; 2022-2025), co-lead of the international consensus on ending diabetes stigma and discrimination, and coordinates the Diabetes MILES – Australia collaborative. Elizabeth supervisors and mentors several staff and PhD students at the ACBRD. Elizabeth is a passionate advocate for community involvement in all stages of research.
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