Lori Roberts

Lori Roberts is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at Charles Darwin University, where she teaches in the Masters of Occupational Therapy program. With a career primarily based in Australia's Northern Territory, she holds a Masters of Public Health and is currently completing her PhD focused on optimizing National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) service delivery through Allied Health Assistants.

Her research examines workforce challenges in remote healthcare contexts, specifically:

• NDIS service delivery models
• Allied Health Assistant integration
• Barriers to healthcare workforce expansion
• Public health policy implementation
• Occupational therapy workforce sustainability

Her publications analyze allied health workforce structures in Northern Australia using scoping reviews and implementation frameworks, emphasizing practical solutions for underserved regions.

She leads an active project: "The Use of Allied Health Assistants to Better Meet Disability Workforce Needs in the Northern Territory", investigating scalable workforce models for disability services.