Dr Maggie Brady, a social anthropologist, has undertaken long-term fieldwork on health and land issues in various parts of Australia including the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. She has researched areas such as diet and lifestyle of Aboriginal people in the vicinity of the Maralinga atomic test sites in preparation for, and following, the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia (1985). Brady has also worked primarily on alcohol misuse and other substance abuse such as petrol sniffing since the late 1970s. She has undertaken studies of drinking in Aboriginal communities and participated in a study of licensing restrictions in South Australia (2001).
