Medical School

Maryanne Cleetus

Principal Project Officer for the RELEASE program of research
General Practice Clinical Unit, Greater Brisbane Clinical School, Medical School
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate
The University of Queensland Clinical Trials Capability (ULTRA), School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
07 3365 5403

Maryanne is an experienced health and medical research project manager and qualified epidemiologist, skilled in operationalising large-scale NHMRC- and MRFF-funded research projects and clinical trials.

She was awarded a first-class Honours for her research on reproductive justice exploring the facilitators and barriers to accessing Termination of Pregnancy post-decriminalisation in Queensland. This research garnered both national and international media interest and was cited in the 2023 national senate inquiry into reproductive health care access in Australia informing key policy recommendations.

Maryanne also has experience in regulatory compliance across over 70 medical oncology clinical trials at Mater Research, and with Queensland Health where she was awarded a clinical Traineeship as an Anaesthetic Allied Health Practitioner. 

Her interests lie in improving how research is designed and delivered to better serve patients and communities.

Qualifications

  • MPH(Epi)
  • MHLM
  • Honours(Class I)
  • BHlthSc(PH)
  • DipAnaesTech

Publications

Journal Articles (2)

Journal Articles

Wallis, Katharine A., Donald, Maria, Horowitz, Mark, Moncrieff, Joanna, Ware, Robert S., Byrnes, Joshua, Thrift, Karen, Cleetus, MaryAnne, Panahi, Idin, Zwar, Nicholas, Morgan, Mark, Freeman, Chris and Scott, Ian (2023). RELEASE (REdressing Long-tErm Antidepressant uSE): protocol for a 3-arm pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial effectiveness-implementation hybrid type-1 in general practice. Trials, 24 (1) 615, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07646-w
Cleetus, Maryanne, Lazarou, Mattea, Tooker, Siân, Jenkinson, Bec and Dean, Judith A. (2022). Termination of pregnancy in Queensland post-decriminalisation: a content analysis of client records from an all-options pregnancy counselling organisation. Sexual Health, 19 (6), 491-500. doi: 10.1071/sh22059