Rhys is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant within the Justice Health Research Program at the School of Population Health, UNSW. His PhD research involves designing, developing and testing novel digital health tools for older people in prison. Alongside his PhD he works on the ReINVEST trial, a randomised control trial aiming to reduce impulsivity in violent men.

Over the last few years Rhys has also been designing and evaluating public health and social programs through his work at Australian Health Care Associates (AHA) and Deloitte Consulting.

Through all of his work Rhys strives to design and deliver safe and feasible health services that create positive change for marginalised people.

Chat to Rhys about: 

• Creating healthy prisons in Australia,
• Trauma and help seeking in justice-involved people,
• The health of older people in, and leaving, prison,
• digital health interventions in prison, and
• Critical realist philosophy and methodology.