MUDRIH Staff

Anton Isaacs

Telephone: +61 3 5128 1012
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: Anton.Isaacs@monash.edu

2008 - present Lecturer, Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health
2007 - 2011 PhD candidate, Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health
2005 - 2007 Assistant Professor, Dept. Of Community Health, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore India
2002 - 2005 Lecturer, Department of Community Health, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India

Isaacs A., Maybery, D., Sutton K., Drysdale, M. (2011-2013). Evaluation of the Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention and Community Support Projects. Department of Health, Victorian Government for $170,000.
Isaacs, A., Maybery, D., D’Amore, A., Gruis, H., Lampitt, B. (February 2011). Common mental disorders in Koori men: Facilitating case finding and continuity of care" – Beyondblue strategic research grant for a period of 18 months for $50,000/-
Srinivasan, K, Isaacs, A., Randomized trial of enhanced community care, in improving treatment adherence and outcome in women with common mental disorders- 2005- 2007 [Funded by Anuradha Foundation, California, USA for Rs. 1,000,000/-]
Isaacs, A., Maanasi Phase II – Expansion of the Community Mental Health programme – 2006 [Funded by The Rotary Foundation and local Rotary Clubs for Rs. 100,000/-]
Founder-Coordinator, Maanasi—The Community Mental Health programme of St. John’s Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore in collaboration with the dept. of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA in 2002 [Funded by The Rotary Foundation and local Rotary Clubs]

Chair, Board of governance of SNAP Gippsland Inc.

Evaluation of Family Health Awareness Campaign (FHAC) of the Government of India. (which was centred around STDs/HIV/AIDS) in various districts of Karnataka state-2002
Facilitated Participatory Evaluations of the thematic projects of the AIDS Prevention and Control Project (APAC), Chennai, for the State of Tamil Nadu (sponsored by USAID)-1999-2001.

Women in Prostitution Project
Slum Intervention Project
Tourism and Women in Prostitution Project
Prevention Along The Highway Project [truckers]

Health and Welfare Audit of Plantation Workers of Parry Agro Industries Ltd. (Team member)
Participatory Evaluation of Young Adult Reproductive Health Programme of PATHFINDER International

Isaacs, A.N., Pepper, H., Pyett, P., Gruis, H.A., Waples-Crowe, P., Oakley-Browne, M.A. ‘What you do is important but how you do it is more important’: Engaging Indigenous men in rural mental health services research. Qualitative Research Journal. 2011 (11) 1.

Srinivasan, K., Isaacs, A. N., Villanueva, E., Lucas, A., & Raghunath, D. (2010). Medical attribution of Common Mental Disorders in a rural Indian population. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 3(3), 143-146.
Isaacs, A., Pyett, P., Oakley Browne, M., Gruis, H., Waples-Crowe, P., (2010). "Barriers and Facilitators to the utilization of adult mental health services by Australia's Indigenous people: Seeking a way forward." International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 19(2): 75-82.

Anton Isaacs and Sunny Varghese. Remission of Writer’s Cramp with Sertraline. Australasian Psychiatry 2008; (16) 1: 55
Anton Isaacs, Noel Varghese, Cyriac Phillips, Geoiphy Pullickal. Outcome of referrals from a Primary Health Institution in rural Karnataka. Pak J Med Sci 2008;24 (1): 157-60. Download this document.
Srinivasan K, Isaacs A N, Neerakkal I, and Jayaram G. Outcome of common mental disorders in a rural community in south India”. Indian J. Social psychiatry. 2007 (In press)

Padmashree S, Anton N. Isaacs. Expectations of primary Care patients in Rural Karnataka. Pak J Med Sci (2007); 23(4): 534-37. Download this document.
Anton N Isaacs. Insufficient rural doctors: Maslow’s theory and the need for Social Accountability. Aust New Zealand J Public Health. 2007; 31 (6):582
Anton N Isaacs. Strengthening Research in Community Medicine. Indian. J. Community Med. (2007); 32 (4):239-40.

Srinivasan K, Isaacs A, Thomas T, and Jayaram G. Outcome of common mental disorders in a rural community in south India”. Indian J. Social psychiatry. (2006); 22: 110-15
Isaacs A N, Neerakkal I, Srinivasan K and Jayaram G. Initiating a Community Mental Health Programme in Rural Karnataka. Indian J of Community Medicine (2006); 31 (2): 86-87. Download this document.
Anton. N. Isaacs; Measuring Inter epidemic risk in a Dengue endemic rural area using Aedes larval Indices. Indian J of Community Medicine (2006); 31(3): 187-188. Download this document.
Corrigendum. IJCM (2007); 32 (3): 238

Award for outstanding contribution presented by Monash University at the 2008 Higher Degree by Research Student Poster Exhibition
Award of recognition from Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation, Sale, for contribution to development of the Indigenous men’s health module
Paul Harris Fellow’ conferred by Rotary International in 2006
Award of Writing Grant from Primary Health Care Research Evaluation and Development (PHCRED), Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health

Isaacs, A. You’ve got to be …a strong Koori man. What Koori men do when they have a mental health problem. Presented at the Deadly in Gippsland Conference, Sale, Victoria, 2011
Isaacs, A. Engaging Indigenous men in rural areas for mental health services research. Award winning presentation at PHAA and AEA joint workshop showcasing higher degree public health student research in epidemiology and public health in Victoria held at La Trobe University City Campus
Isaacs, A. Population screening of patients with neuropsychiatric illnesses in rural areas by trained village level workers. Presented at the Karnataka Association of Community Health Conference in February 2004 at Bangalore, India
Deepa Raghunath, Anton N Isaacs, Iby Neerakkal, K Srinivasan. (2004). Profile of life stressors in rural women with depression. Presented at The 32nd Annual National Conference of Indian Association Of Preventive & Social Medicine in Feb 2005 and published in the book of Abstracts.