Dr Augustine Asante Senior Lecturer Health Economics and Financing & Co-Director International Public Health Program
Dr Augustine Asante is a health economist with over 10 years’ experience researching across the health system building blocks, particularly health financing and human resources for health. He has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa evaluating complex health systems interventions. He has worked as a consultant health economist for the World Bank in Timor-Leste and also consulted on health system issues for a number of multilateral and bilateral agencies.
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A/Professor Balasooriya is a nationally recognised expert in Medical Education. He has received a range of university and national level awards in educational excellence. Chinthaka leads a range of research projects in medical education, based within the UNSW Medicine program and within clinical training programs. Chinthaka has 15 years of experience designing and implementing the UNSW Medicine program.
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Associate Professor Margo Barr Associate Professor Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
A/Professor Barr is an epidemiologist with interest and expertise in large scale cohort studies, behaviour risk factor and disease surveillance, primary health care and welfare, and survey and data linkage methodology. She is interested in supervising projects related to health service research, ideally using the resource, to inform primary and community services planning, program development and evaluation.
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A/Professor Harrison is an Applied Health Psychologist with research interests in the quality and safety of healthcare. Her research focuses on the experiences of health professionals and patients in relation to adverse events. A/Prof Harrison is interested in supervising projects relating to psychological health, healthcare worker well-being, adverse events in healthcare, patient experience or health service delivery and quality of care issues.
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A/Prof Harris-Roxas is Director of the South Eastern Research Collaboration Hub (SEaRCH), a joint initiative of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and UNSW. His research focuses on priority populations’ health service needs, health impact assessment, and integrated care.Research interests include health service planning, health equity, health impact assessment, and evaluation.
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A/Prof Heslop is a Primary Care clinical and Occupational and Environmental Medicine practitioner with research interests in resilient health care systems, particularly in the fields of health protection, emergency health response, and high risk/austere health care environments. His research focuses on using computational modelling and simulation to answer clinical systems questions in high risk/novel clinical environments.
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Global Health (health systems strengthening; Human Resources for Health, health information systems development and Program Evaluation) Organizational behaviour in technology adoption; Psycho-social factors in Chronic disease (Diabetes, Hepatitis C, Osteo-arthritis, Chronic Heart failure) and in ageing (stroke rehabilitation); Social epidemiology and health inequity.
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Ebony Lewis has come from a background of Emergency nursing with a passion for improving the end-of-life experience for older people with advanced chronic illness. She has extensive experience in geriatrics assessment and gerontology research. Ebony is currently contributing to projects on prognostic preferences in hospitals, identification of elders at risk in in residential aged care, and optimising Advance Care Planning in general practice.
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Professor Mary-Louise McLaws Professor of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Services
Prof McLaws' research areas include: infection prevention and control, clinical improvement and safety and evidence based practice. She supervises projects broadly relating to: Infection prevention and control; Antibiotic resistance and prescribing; Surveillance of healthcare associated infections; Hand hygiene – behaviour and surveillance; Patient safety – related to infection prevention such as development and evaluation of care bundles and pathways to reduce infection.
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Dr Lois Meyer Senior Research Fellow, Postgraduate Learning and Teaching, Associate Dean Education
Lois undertakes strategic curriculum development and instructional design across the postgraduate programs. Lois has a strong research interest in tracing the learning and career trajectories of the School's students and the implications of their postgraduate studies for strengthening capacity in health organisations. Her background is in health professional educational and workplace learning with an emphasis on Human Resource Development and workforce capacity. Her areas of principal research interests are in curriculum design, professional education and workplace learning.
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A/Prof Anthony Newall's main research area is the economic evaluation of infectious disease prevention strategies, as well as the mathematical modelling and statistical analyses that inform these evaluations. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications on a range of vaccine preventable diseases, including the epidemiology and cost-effectiveness of prevention strategies for influenza (seasonal and pandemic), pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, and human papillomavirus.
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Dr Bronwyn Newman Research Fellow in Health Management
Bronwyn has come from a Social Work background and has an interest in strategies to improve health access and inclusion for marginalised groups. Her doctoral thesis was about accessible mental health information for people with intellectual disability. Bronwyn’s research interests include accessible information, intellectual disability, health literacy, social policy and health service accessibility. Bronwyn is currently a Research Fellow on an NHMRC Ideas Project exploring patient engagement and safety amongst culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
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Dr O'Callaghan has experience in health promotion, public health and disease prevention research, evaluation and service development with a focus on working with vulnerable and priority populations. She has conducted research in the community and in health care services and has expertise in qualitative health research.
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Dr Maha Pervaz Iqbal's specific research interests are student learning, educational design research with an interest in developing educational innovations in teaching and learning. As part of her Doctoral research she has developed an educational intervention to promote the key collaborative learning competencies in medical students.
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Dr Holly Seale Senior Lecturer, Infectious Diseases, Public Health and Health Services, Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology
Dr Seale has conducted behavioural research regarding infectious diseases and infection control. Recently, her work has focused on healthcare professional’s perceptions and behaviours regarding infectious diseases, particularly VPDs and examining new strategies for infection control using pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures. Her published studies have concerned communicable disease surveillance, social research, clinical trial outcomes, risk communication, immunisation coverage in at-risk groups, and the evaluation of education tools using qualitative and quantitative methods.
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Dr Anurag Sharma Senior Lecturer Health Economics & Co-Director Public Health Programs
Dr Sharma is an applied Health Economist whose research involves rigorous applied methods using large and complex datasets. His recent research has focused on health system performance especially the hospital sector in Australia where he has investigated policy relevant issues such as reducing ED overcrowding, modeling hospital choice for elective surgery patients, and hospital behavior under activity based funding. Dr Sharma has also led a ARC Discovery grant on impact of health promotion policies such as taxing soft drinks to reduce obesity. Dr Sharma has also been involved in projects focusing on public health issues in low-income settings such as Nepal, Mongolia and India.
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Dr Spooner has a disciplinary background in psychology and public health with a general focus on the how primary health care can reduce health inequities via the prevention and management of chronic diseases. She is currently working with others at CPHCE to build a program of research that aims to improve preventive health care for physical health of people with a severe mental illness (PWSMI).
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Richard Taylor is involved in several international research studies, including mortality and cause of death, and control of NCD in Pacific Island Countries, and in several national research studies, including Indigenous mortality assessment.
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Dr Ramesh Walpola is a pharmacist with research expertise and interest is in patient and medication safety. Ramesh’s current research spans a number of areas including patient and medication safety, safe delivery of care by carers, aged care, safety culture, health professional development and change management.
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