Dr. Ingrid Amgarth Duff

Biography

Ingrid Amgarth-Duff is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a Postdoctoral Senior Research Officer at the Kids Research Institute, Australia. Her current research focuses on community consultation projects, particularly in the area of head lice treatment using oral ivermectin versus topical permethrin. In 2022, she led the update of the National Healthy Skin Guidelines to support practice in the prevention and treatment of skin infections among Aboriginal children in communities across Australia. Ingrid also contributed to a foundational systematic review that informed these guidelines, addressing conditions such as head lice, molluscum contagiosum, and eczema. She provides scientific guidance for the Koolungar Moorditj Healthy Skin project, which is a co-designed research-service study aimed at describing skin health issues among urban-living Aboriginal children and adolescents. Ingrid's expertise lies in qualitative research and Delphi methods for community co-design. She completed her PhD in delirium pathophysiology at the University of Technology Sydney in 2021, focusing on evaluating both biological and clinical correlates of delirium and its underlying conditions. Her research career in child health began with an Honours project in 2015, which emphasized treatment for skin infections in Aboriginal children from remote Western Australian communities.

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