Helen Gurteen

Dr Helen Gurteen is an audiologist and health services researcher whose work focuses on improving hearing, listening, and communication outcomes across the lifespan. As a Conjoint Research Fellow with the University of Queensland and Princess Alexandra Hospital, she leads and collaborates on clinically embedded research designed to address real-world challenges faced by people with hearing and communication difficulties. Helen's research spans hearing healthcare, listening difficulties, auditory processing, auditory rehabilitation, communication accessibility, and implementation science. Her work combines quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods to develop, evaluate and implement approaches that improve participation, quality of life and access to care. Current areas of interest include:

• Hearing and communication accessibility in healthcare settings
• Listening difficulites and auditory processing disorder
• Hearing care for under-served populations
• Hearing and communication outcomes following brain injury
• Health service evaluation, implementation, and translation of evidence into practice

Helen works closely with clinicians, health services, consumers, and researchers to ensure that research addresses priorities identified by the people who deliver and use healthcare. Her goal is to build research capability within clinical services and generate evidence that leads to meaningful improvements in hearing and communication outcomes.