Professor Arbon is a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Director of the Torrens Resilience Initiative and Professor of Nursing (Population Health). The Torrens Resilience Initiative was established in 2009 to improve the capacity of organisations and societies to respond to disruptive challenges that have the potential to overwhelm local disaster management capabilities and plans. Current research and development is focused on community and organisational resilience, mass gathering health and health security. The Institute hosts the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings and Global Health Security.

Professor Arbon is listed among the top 2% of researchers globally in the 6th annual Stanford-Elsevier standardardisation index.

Professor Arbon is former President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, former Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University, a member the International Health Regulations Roster of Experts and the World Health Organisation Health Security Interface Technical Advisory Group, Editorial Board Member of the disaster health journal Pre Hospital and Disaster Medicine and Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing.

Current research projects focus on disaster and security resilience through community capacity and organisational capability building,  mass gathering health including development on non-linear predictive models and consensus for minimum data sets and review of disaster health terminology. Doctoral student supervision includes projects on family resilience during disaster, the roles and experiences of nurses and paramedics during disaster, health care during conflict, health system strengthening for crisis, health service preparedness for deliberate events, protective aspects of emergency services culture and organisation, and bystander motivation and experience. Development work includes risk assessment for mass gatherings, development of mass gathering guidelines and standards, and resilience measurement at national, state and local levels.

• HEALTH CARE SYSTEM STRENGTHENING
• THE EXPERIENCE OF CRISIS AND EMERGENCY
• THE EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN AS FIREFIGHTERS
• HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN CONFLICT AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
• WOMENS EXPERIENCE OF CYCLONE DISASTERS IN BANGLADESH
• NURSES EXPERIENCE OF RESPONDING TO EXTERNAL DISASTERS
• DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND THE OLDER PERSON (1)

• COMMUNITY NURSING (1)
• THAI MASSAGE THERAPY IN COMMUNITY NURSING (1)