Maggie Brady is an experienced social anthropologist and has undertaken long-term fieldwork on health and land issues in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. She researched the 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). She has 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, in Tennant Creek (1984) and Alice Springs (1999), and participated in a study of licensing restrictions in South Australia (2001).

In 1998 Maggie published the first edition of a book of community development strategies for managing alcohol problems - The Grog Book - winning an Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing. A revised edition was published in 2005. Maggie is also a University Medal winner, receiving the JG Crawford Prize for her PhD thesis in 2000.  Her interests include health and alcohol policies for indigenous peoples in Australia and internationally, the role of primary health care in alcohol interventions, and more recently, Aboriginal social enterprises and the liquor industry.

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Fellow, CAEPR, Australian National University (2001 to present).

Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

1995-2000 - Strategies for Alcohol Management.

1991-1995 - Research into individual and community recovery from alcohol abuse among Aboriginal people.

1987-1990 - The social meaning of petrol inhalation among Aboriginal adolescents (RIDAG grant).

1995 - National Drug Strategy Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

1994 - CAEPR, Visiting Fellow.

1985-1986 - Senior Project Officer, Human Rights Commission, Canberra.

1983-1985 - Anthropologist, Northern Land Council, Darwin.

1980-1982 - Coordinator, Western Desert Project, School of Medicine, Flinders University of South Australia.