Kevin Fjeldsoe

Member of the Policy and Epidemiology Group

+61 416 176 390

kfjeldsoe@gmail.com

Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research

Dawson House, The Park Centre for Mental Health

Overview

Kevin is currently working with the Queensland Centre Mental Health Research’s Policy and Epidemiology Group.

He has worked in mental health since he graduated as a mental health nurse in 1976. During that time he has worked as a Clinician, Manager, Director of Nursing, CEO of a District Mental Health Service, State Manager and more recently as Director of the Mental Health Service Planning and Implementation Unit, Queensland Health.

In 2012 Kevin was awarded an OAM for services to mental health reform and service development.  He has been recently been working as part of a project team to deliver a National Mental Health Service Planning Framework.

His primary area of research interest is evidence informed service planning and its application to practice.

Qualifications

RN, RPN, B Nurs, Grad Dip Management, OAM