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| Associate Professor Niyi Awofeso
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
I am interested in studies that focus on prisoners and other marginal or socio-economically deprived segments of society. I have a strong interest public health aspects of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis HIV/AIDS, influenza, hepatitis B, and leprosy I have extensive experience with public health issues in West Africa. I am also interested in health and development issues, public health aspects of violence and terrorism, health promotion, as well as sociological aspects of population health.
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| Dr Ilse Blignault
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Muru Marri Indigenous Health UnitStatement of Interests:
Within the broad area of psychiatry/mental health, research interests include transcultural mental health, the social and emotional well-being of Indigenous Australians, primary mental health care and telepsychiatry (e-mental health). Other broad areas of interest are global health, multicultural health and research methods. Currently, senior researcher on an ARC-funded project, 'Investigating psychosocial and mental health policy in countries emerging from conflict and natural disaster', as well as co-Director of the 'Health Care Seeking Behaviour Study East Timor' funded by AusAID. Works closely with the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, and provides methodolgical and specialist content advice to a range of cross-cultural evaluation and research projects.
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| Professor Nicholas Buckley
Prince of Wales Clinical SchoolStatement of Interests:
As part of the SACTRC collaboration I have helped developed a centre of clinical toxicology research excellence in Sri Lanka – largely funded by the NHMRC and Wellcome Trust International Collaborative Research Grant scheme. The main focus of this work is pesticide poisoning, although the collaboration began with trials on snake envenomation and oleander poisoning and continues to be active in researching these areas and in other community based public and mental health projects.
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| Ms Anne Bunde-Birouste
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The field of health promotion encompasses a wide range of strategies and sectors,with the social determinants of health providing a platform for analyses and action. Health promotion has an important role in fragile communities and societies: the health of a society is critical to its resilience; good health is required for communities and individuals to exercise their entitlements and rights. Innovative approaches (sports, the arts, respecting and integrating traditional practices to 'western approaches') to health promotion and in particular mental health promotion are of particular interest.Collaborative work with international colleagues is underway in a number of these areas.
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| Dr Jeffrey Cohen
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Role of Spirituality in Health Care; Faith and Mental Health
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| Dr Angela Dawson
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Human Resources for Health Knowledge HubStatement of Interests:
Particular interests lie in the area of human resources and maternal, neonatal and reproductive care in community settings in the Asia Pacific region. Key areas are education and training and the input of key stakeholders into curriculum development. Health communication with a particular focus on media and health professional dialogue and relationship building for advocacy and knowledge into practice.
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| Dr John Dewdney
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Comparative study of health service policy, planning, programs, process and product. Currently involved in the USAID-funded Capacity Project concerned with the development of health workforce planning tools and health information systems. Exploration of the history of medical education in Australia.
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| Associate Professor Kate Dolan
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Dr Dolan is interested in the transmission and prevention of infectious diseases in prison.
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| Dr Jagdish Dua
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| Associate Professor Deborah Green
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Long standing interest in evidence around the effectiveness of health services and of effective clinical governance
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| Mr Patrick Harris
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
• Health Impact Assessment (supported and been involved in over 20 HIAs) • Health and wellbeing considerations in Environmental Assessment • Equity and the determinants of health
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| Mr Alan Hodgkinson
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Health services management development in resource-poor settings. Building management capacity in Australian health service managers.
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| Dr John Howard
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre - National Cannabis Prevention and Information CentreStatement of Interests:
John is a Senior Lecturer, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW and consults to WHO, UNICEF and UNESCAP. This has included work in India, the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Lao PDR, Viet Nam, China and Thailand on street youth/children, health of male adolescents and capacity-building for the community treatment of young drug users. His major clinical, teaching and research areas are: adolescent substance use and ‘street youth’ (in both developed and developing countries), comorbidity, depression and suicide in young people, working with marginalised youth, adolescent psychotherapy, same-sex attracted youth, HIV infection in adolescents, resilience, and treatment capacity building.
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| Associate Professor Rohan Jayasuriya
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Global Health ( health systems strengthening; Human Resources for Health, health information systems development and evaluation; Reproductive health and Program Evaluation) Organizational behaviour in technology adoption; Psycho-social factors in Chronic disease(Diabetes, Hepatitis C, Osteo-arthritis, Chronic Health failure) and in ageing ( stroke rehabilitation); Social epidemiology and health inequity.
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| Dr Stephen Kerr
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Rational drug use is about the clinical use of the right drug, for the right patient, for the right indication, at the right dose, for the right duration, at the lowest cost to the patient and the community. Using drugs in this way helps to optimise the safety and quality of health care. One important first step is the conduct of well conceived clinical trials.
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| Dr Linda Kurti
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
The way in which decisions are reached regarding development and delivery or services both within the international health sector and within the Australian health system impacts upon access and uptake of services by those who are poor or marginalised. Organisational learning and the intentionality of services are key influences upon the equity of and access to health services and ultimately the effectiveness of health systems.
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| Dr Brahmaputra Marjadi
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in low-resourced settings are of particular interest. These include quantitative and qualitative research into contributing factors and barriers for cost-effective and context-appropriate infection prevention and control measures.
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| Associate Professor Mary-Louise McLaws
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Hospital Infection and Epidemiology Surveillance UnitStatement of Interests:
Patient safety and healthcare worker safety with emphasis on the epidemiology of healthcare-associated and occupational acquisition of infection. Specific interests include surveillance of infectious diseases in healthcare facility, healthcare workers' behaviour in infection control, disaster management and outbreak of infectious diseases investigation.
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| Ms Lois Meyer
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Lois Meyer has worked as a consultant in human resource development and strategic learning systems for a range of public and private organisations for over twenty years. For the last five years she has drawn on that body of work to undertake curriculum development and research in areas related to HRD, and professional education and development, particularly within the health sector. She has increasingly focused her research on professional formation and development in public health and health service management in local and international contexts. Lois is involved in researching teaching and learning practice within the postgraduate education programs with the School. As a Chief Investigator for the AusAID funded HRH Knowledge Hub Lois is undertaking a research project with partners to identify effective strategies for enhancing leadership and management capacity in health service contexts in the Asia Pacific region. Lois is also undertaking her PhD researching the formation of public health practitioners and the challenges of learning to make 'good professional judgements' within current and emerging population health issues and priorities.
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| ![Show details for [<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"><b>]Dr Husna Razee[</b><br>    <i>School of Public Health and Com](/icons/expand.gif) Dr Husna Razee
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Understanding the cultural construction of mental wellbeing and the role of gender in mental well being. Social determinants of health specifically in relation to mental health promotion. Gender equity and health especially gender based violence is of particular interest to me.
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| Professor Robyn Richmond
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Robyn’s research encompasses a broad spectrum of public health issues conducted over 26 years. Her research has focussed on the reduction of smoking among patients attending general practitioners and hospital outpatients clinics; the evaluation of the use of a range of pharmacotherapies to assist smokers to quit; the reduction of risky alcohol consumption among patients attending general practitioners and hospital outpatients clinics; improvement of health and lifestyles and reduction of cardiovascular risk factors among high risk groups in workplace settings and Indigenous people, and disadvantaged groups such as among those with a mental illness and prisoners; and investigation of the cardiovascular health of centenarians. Her research has led to fundamental and long standing impacts on policy, clinical practice, teaching and training. Her global research work includes a series of studies extending over 12 years in which she has developed and evaluated teaching programs on tobacco and smoking cessation techniques which have been implemented in medical schools globally. Recently, Robyn's research interests have expanded to include the phenomenal growth of centenarians in our society, and the lifestyle and genetic factors that influence longevity. Robyn was invited in 1991 to join as a representative of Australia, the Tobacco Prevention Section, which is a section of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. From 1994-1996, she was the elected Deputy Chair of the Tobacco Prevention Section and then from 1996 to 1998, the elected chair. This position lead to running training workshops in many countries including: Thailand, Turkey, France. During Robyn's academic career, she has published 104 papers in refereed journals, 37 books and booklets and 17 chapters in books. Her H index is 26. During Robyn's research career she has presented 188 papers at national and international conferences. She teaches at UNSW at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has developed training programs for health professionals.
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| Associate Professor Jan Ritchie
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
1) Researching the beliefs and opinions of the consumer, community member, client and/or patient using qualitative methodologies especially participatory action research 2)Creating supportive environments for health and researching the deteminants of health globally, nationally and locally is of similar research interest.
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| Emeritus Professor Arie Rotem
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Evaluation and Development of Health Services, Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening in Health, Health Workforce Development; Integration of education and health services development; enhancing professional effectiveness; learning environments in health settings
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| Dr Catherine Spooner
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Collaborative social research in the Asia Pacific region relating to HIV. Particular interest in social determinants of health, injecting drug use and youth.
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| Dr Niamh Stephenson
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Dr Stephenson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Science the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, whose research examines the relationships between social change and transformations in public health practice and knowledge. Her book, Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change examines how HIV positive people’s experiences are both shaped by and can subvert dominant understandings of HIV, health and illness (co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos, published by Palgrave, 2006). Her forthcoming book, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century, examines recent shifts in the politics of experience in the fields of health, labour and migration (co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vassilis Tsianos, Pluto, 2008). She has published in the fields of social research, cultural studies and qualitative research methods and is currently undertaking work on pandemic influenza and biosecurity.
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| Professor Daniel Tarantola
School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Initiative for Health and Human RightsStatement of Interests:
The UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) is a multidisciplinary research, teaching, service and advocacy initiative founded collectively by the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Law and Medicine. The IHHR advances Health and Human Rights as both an area of study and a new, composite method of research applicable to: (1) Building the evidence of the synergy between health and rights; (2) Improving Governance and its impact on health and rights; (3) Focusing on vulnerable populations; and (4) Exploring the interface between health, development, human rights, poverty and globalization.
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| Ms Emily Waller
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Emily Waller is the Research and Development Manager for the cross-faculty UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights. Her research interests include the links between health, human rights and gender in conflict-affected settings, especially in relation to international and institutional responses to sexual and gender-based violence. Her most recent work focused on the UN response to sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers from a victim-centred and human rights perspective. She previously worked on a research project drawing on the experience of academics and practitioners to explore the interface between health systems, conflict prevention, support for post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding. This research has lead to the development of The Health and Peacebuilding Filter, which is designed to provide rapid assessment of peacebuilding and conflict prevention components of health initiatives in conflict-affected settings. Ms. Waller spent time in Sri Lanka and the Solomon Islands as part of the research team exploring the practical applications for the Filter. She completed her Master in Public Health at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW.
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| Associate Professor Anna Klinken Whelan
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Anna Klinken Whelan has made a major contribution to research with vulnerable groups, focusing on health system responses, especially in multicultural and refugee health services; in particular on the cross-cutting and strategic area of diversity management and leadership. She has increasingly focused recent research in international health systems/management, including global concerns regarding human resources in health such as skilled health migration and the use of paraprofessionals and unskilled health workers in workforce shortage situations. Her clinical and public health research concentrates on reproductive health services and evaluation in developing country contexts; particularly in crisis situations.
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| Mr Kolitha Wickramage
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Health Promotion in conflict affected contexts, Public Health programs for Refugees and those displaced communities in conflict, Community Participation in Primary Health Care in resource poor contexts.
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| Associate Professor Heather Worth
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
My research interests are primarily in the area of HIV, gender, and sexuality research, with a recent emphasis on the international scene, in particular HIV and global politics. I lea a team of researchers in an international HIV social research program in Asia and the Pacific This research encompasses projects in Sri Lanka , Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, China, Timor Leste and a number of countries in the Pacific .
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| Dr Lorraine Yap
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
• Applied social research relevant to reproductive health, STIs, and HIV/AIDS interventions, particularly among drug users, commercial sex workers, prisoners, indigenous populations. • Appraisal, design, monitoring and evaluation of health and population projects/programs, with special reference to sexual health, including HIV/AIDS. • Experience in needle and condom social marketing, and peer and health education and promotion in developing countries. • Participatory approaches to monitoring of performance and impact, and project evaluation.
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| Professor Anthony Zwi
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Professor Zwi focuses on international health and policy and has interests in their interface with equity, social justice and human rights. He seeks to build Australia and Asia-Pacific partnerships and capabilities in public health, health policy, and disaster planning, management and response. He has worked most extensively in the past year in Timor-Leste (East Timor), but also has had recent research projects in Sri Lanka, the Solomon Islands and Cambodia. He is interested in understanding, and improving mechanisms, to facilitate evidence-informed health and development policy. Professor Zwi is keen to build links between humanitarian relief and development organisations and academic institutions. He has interests in injury and violence as public health problems. He heads a team exploring how health-related interventions in countries which have experienced disasters and wars could be more sensitive to culture, conflict, and to rebuilding trust and social cohesion. He and colleagues work on the ethics of research in conflict-affected settings, and the role of service providers and community members, including young people, in shaping and influencing research and responses to violent political conflict. He is keen to build links with health, development and humanitarian NGOs which have a commitment to research and lesson-learning.
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