Overview
Background
Dr Josephine Okurame is a Lecturer in Research at The University of Queensland. She brings a multidisciplinary background that spans health research, education, equity focused pathways, artificial intelligence, and community engaged scholarship. Her work sits at the intersection of widening participation, underserved populations, and the translation of research into practical outcomes for learners, professionals, and communities.
Josephine’s research centres on improving access, representation, and success for students from underserved and rural backgrounds, particularly within health and medical training pathways. Her scholarship draws on mixed methods approaches and emphasises the integration of lived experience, systems thinking, and evidence informed policy and practice. She has a growing interest in the ethical use of artificial intelligence in academia, with a focus on responsible integration into teaching, research design, research communication, and academic capacity building. Her interests explore how AI can support equity, transparency, and accessibility while maintaining academic integrity and human centred decision making.
With a strong foundation in teaching and research capacity building, Josephine supports students, clinicians, and early career researchers to engage in meaningful research activity. She has experience in mentoring, curriculum informed research integration, and developing research confidence amongs inidividuals who are new to research environments. Her work strengthens the link between education, workforce development, and service delivery.
Josephine also has a strong interest in research communication and knowledge translation. She focuses on making complex evidence understandable and actionable for diverse audiences, including educators, community stakeholders, and policy contributors. Her broader academic vision centres on equitable systems, sustainable career pathways, and strengthening the pipeline between education, community need, and workforce outcomes.
Through her role at UQ, she contributes to research, teaching, and collaboration that support the long term goal of a more inclusive and responsive health workforce.
Availability
- Dr Josephine Okurame is:
- Available for supervision
Research impacts
Dr Josephine Okurame’s research has delivered practical impact across health education, clinical research, and research capability development. She has contributed to peer reviewed publications in international journals and led and coordinated major multidisciplinary health research projects with budgets exceeding 3 million dollars, generating evidence used to support health professional. organisations and educators in practice settings . Her work in public health, neurodevelopment, and addiction related research has helped produce accessible evidence resources and syntheses that support more informed clinical and educational decision making, while her earlier work on culturally responsive health practices has informed more inclusive understandings of care for diverse populations .
Alongside her research outputs, she has created impact through research training and systems level capacity building. She has delivered research methods, AI and data analysis training to more than 500 postgraduate students, research staff and organisations across major Australian universities and beyond, strengthening the ability of health and academic professionals to design, analyse, and apply research in real world contexts . Her work also extends to the ethical integration of artificial intelligence in academia, where she supports responsible and approved use of AI tools in research and teaching to improve access, efficiency, and transparency while maintaining academic integrity. Together, these contributions strengthen equity in health education, build research confident professionals, and support safer adoption of emerging technologies in higher education and health research.
Works
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2023
Journal Article
The relationship between endogenous oxytocin and vasopressin levels and the Prader-Willi syndrome behaviour phenotype
Rice, Lauren J., Agu, Josephine, Carter, C. Sue, Harris, James C., Nazarloo, Hans P., Naanai, Habiba and Einfeld, Stewart L. (2023). The relationship between endogenous oxytocin and vasopressin levels and the Prader-Willi syndrome behaviour phenotype. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14 1183525. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1183525
2019
Journal Article
A systematic review of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use amongst ethnic minority populations: a focus upon prevalence, drivers, integrative use, health outcomes, referrals and use of information sources
Agu, Josephine C., Hee-Jeon, Yun, Steel, Amie and Adams, Jon (2019). A systematic review of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use amongst ethnic minority populations: a focus upon prevalence, drivers, integrative use, health outcomes, referrals and use of information sources. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 21 (5), 1137-1156. doi: 10.1007/s10903-018-0832-4
2016
Journal Article
Migrant sexual health help-seeking and experiences of stigmatization and discrimination in Perth, Western Australia: Exploring barriers and enablers
Agu, Josephine, Lobo, Roanna, Crawford, Gemma and Chigwada, Bethwyn (2016). Migrant sexual health help-seeking and experiences of stigmatization and discrimination in Perth, Western Australia: Exploring barriers and enablers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13 (5) 485, 485. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13050485
Supervision
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