Miss Ebony Lewis
Scientia Fellow (Level B)
PhD, MIPH, BN听
Medicine & Health
School of Population Health
Ebony is an early career researcher and has a passion for improving the health and wellbeing of older adults. She has extensive experience in gerontology research and geriatric assessment in clinical practice.
Her research work has focused largely on a program of research aiming to reduce avoidable hospitalisations and unnecessary treatments to improve the end-of-life care experience for frail older adults, caregivers and clinicians. Ebony鈥檚 research has had an impact at both a national and international level.听In 2021, Ebony and Associate Professor Magnolia Cardona jointly wrote, collected and collated a book which is a collection of real life stories from families, patients and clinicians encouraging and normalising end-of-life discussions ().听Ebony leads a program of research around frailty and ageing in older adult populations and has a strong interest around culturally appropriate approaches to the assessment of frailty and frailty management strategies to support health and wellbeing in later life. She uses mixed methods to aid in the translation of research into practice.听
Ebony is a Scientia lecturer in the School of Population Health. She is the Master of Public Health Stream Convenor of the Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Specialisation and convenes the postgraduate course PHCM9630. Ebony delivers regular guest lectures in the School of Population Health and undergraduate Medical Program. Ebony completed her PhD through the Faculty of Medicine & Health at UNSW in 2024. She has also completed a Masters of International Public Health (2013) and a Bachelor of Nursing (2010).
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*Rhee J, Poulos C, Poulos R, Montague A, Lewis E, Pearson R. Models of general practice care in people living in residential care homes. RACGP Foundation/HCF Research Foundation. 2022. $60,000
*Lewis E, Radford K, Peters R, Cardona M, Howie A, Withall A, Rockwood K.听An exploration of frailty in older Aboriginal peoples in New South Wales.听UNSW Ageing Futures Institute -Seed Research Grant. 2021. $26,000
*Radford K, Withall A, Ni She E, Cullen P, Lavrencic L, Lewis E, Anstey K.听Collaboratory Ageing Meeting Place For Innovative Research and Engagement (CAMPFIRE):听A living lab.听UNSW Ageing Futures Institute -Seed Research Grant. 2021.听$28,996
*Peters R, Ee N, Ward S, Kenning G, Goldwater M, Delbare K, Rockwood K, Dodge H, Fitzgerald A, Lewis E, Radford K.听INTERgenerAtional Clinical Trial In at risk Older adults and pre-school children (INTERACTION).听Mindgardens鈥 Translational Research Scheme. 2021.听$149,337
*Lovell N, Sze-Yuan O, Delbaere K, Branko C, Harris M, Christensen H, Cohn R, Krishnan A, Welsh A, Liaw T, Anstey K, Betbeder-Matibet L, Larsen L, Wakefield C, Jennifer Y, Ivers R, Stevenson G, Guozhen L, Lewis E, Parameswaran S, Mohammadi G, GllegoLuxan B. Connected Health Apps and Systems (CHAppS) Network Laboratory.听Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor UNSW. 2020.听$192,511
*Lewis E, Macniven R, Poulos R, Cardona M, Menzies R, Ni Chroinin D, Webster R, Liaw T, Williamson M.听Identification of frailty in an Australian general practice database using the electronic Frailty Index: an exploratory study.听SPHCM UNSW seeding grant. 2019.听$25,000
*Anderson M, Ivers R, Lovell N, McCausland R, MacGillivary P, Lewis E, Poulos R, Macniven R, Pollard-Wharton N, Poulos C, Eades A, Spencer W.听Supporting Aboriginal People to Age Well in Remote Settings: The Dharriwaa Elders Group.听UNSW Ageing Futures Institute -Seed Research Grant. 2019. $30,000
*Macniven R, Delbaere K, Withall A, Radford K, Lewis E, Lovell N.听Community co-design to develop and test measures to examine the health and wellbeing impact of Deadly Running Australia.听UNSW Ageing Futures Institute -Seed Research Grant. 2019. $30,000
*Cardona M, Lewis E, Asha S, Alkhouri H, Lovell N, Turner R. Electronic tool to facilitate decision making and advance care planning in emergency departments.听Agency for Clinical Innovation. 2018. $85,330
*Hillman K, Cardona M, Middleton P, Peronchik J, Harlum J, Wiltshire J, Lewis E, Nicholson M, Frost S, Turner R.听Reducing inappropriate admissions and long hospital stays to improve health management for elderly patients.听HCF Research Foundation. 2017. $150,000
*Winner, Paper of the Year Award 2016
*Finalist, NSW Health Statewide Awards for Innovation in Research
CriSTAL clinical prediction tool to encourage advance care planning. New South Wales Health Ministry (October 2017)
*Winner. Quality Award for Patient Safety, September 2017
South Western Sydney Local Health District for program of work on Criteria for Screening and Triaging to Appropriate aLternative care (CriSTAL)
*Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) NSW Division Conference Scholarship 54th AAG Conference, November 2021
*UNSW Hall of Fame. Alumni and student profile being selected for inclusion in the hall of fame exhibition for UNSW Open Day, September 2022
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I am on a number of committees and working groups.听