Dr Hazel Dalton is a Senior Research Fellow of Rural Public Health, at the Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW. She is currently engaged with rural place-based health services research (mixed methods and action-research approaches). She has a broad interest in rural health research including health services (policy, planning, co-design, evaluation, case studies), mental health, integrated care, health promotion, collaborative approaches to community wellbeing and suicide prevention. She is Chair of the Rural Behavioral Health Collaborative special interest group of the Global Leadership Exchange and an Adjunct Associate-Professor with the University of Canberra’s Mental Health Policy Unit.