My Expertise
health services, impact assessment, health equity
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Research Interests
My research interests include primary health care, health service planning, integrated care, health equity, and health impact assessment.
Broad Research Areas
- Integrated care and primary health care
- Health impact assessment
- Health service planning
- Evaluation
- Health equity
- Health promotion
My Qualifications
PhD (UNSW), MPASR (Macquarie), BSW (UNSW)
My Research Activities
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Research Interests
My research interests include primary health care, health service planning, integrated care, health equity, and health impact assessment.
Broad Research Areas
- Integrated care and primary health care
- Health impact assessment
- Health service planning
- Evaluation
- Health equity
- Health promotion
My Qualifications
PhD (UNSW), MPASR (Macquarie), BSW (UNSW)
My Research Activities
Current research projects
- Central and Eastern Sydney Primary and Community Health Cohort (linkage resource based on 45 and Up study)
- Local Health District Integrated Care
- Community health workers, navigators and peer health workers
- Carers' information and technology needs
- Pathways to Preventive Care for People with Severe Mental Illness
- Raising awareness of the harms of waterpipe smoking
- Use of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) to tailor care
- Use of translation apps and websites in health care settings
- Culturally sensitive service responses to extended family caregiving arrangements
- After-hours general practice services
- Health impact assessments of built environment and land use planning projects
- Emergency Department frequent attenders
N.B. These projects all involve academic and industry investigators.
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
- primary health care and general practice
- integrated care
- health impact assessment
- health service planning
- partnerships
Currently supervising
Current research students' topics:
- Health equity in Sydney’s fastest growing area
- Models of shared care between primary health care and specialised alcohol and other drug services
- Growing Well: Redeveloping Sydney’s housing for health, wellbeing and equity
- Implementation of a multilevel integrated care initiative between general practice and specialist service
- Air pollution, climate change and human health in Sydney
My Engagement
- Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Primary Health
- Editorial Board Member, Environmental Impact Assessment Review
- Editorial Board Member, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
- Editorial Board Member, Integrated Healthcare Journal (BMJ)
- Review Editor (Public Health Policy), Frontiers in Public Health
- Member, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Clinical Innovation and Research Translation Committee
- Member, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Integrated Care Committee
- Member, Uniting War Memorial Hospital Research Committee
- Member, Uniting Ware Memorial Hospital Integrated Care Committee
- Member, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation Primary Health Care Network
- Member, Global Working Group on Health Impact Assessment, International Union for Health Promotion and Education
- Past Health Section Co-Chair, International Association for Impact Assessment
- Past Associate Editor, BMC Public Health
- Invited keynote addresses at conferences in Japan, Korea, Quebec, Sydney, Paris, Dunedin, Canada and Spain
- Invited participant at two World Health Organization Consultations in 2012 and 2014
- Technical support for for the WHO South East Asian Regional Office and the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office
- Membership of the International Association for Impact Assessment and Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care.
My Teaching
Convenor:
- PHCM9615 Principles and Practice of Primary Health Care
Contributor to:
- PHCM9041 Foundations in Public Health & Health Care Systems
- PHCM9129 Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease
- PHCM9612 Environmental Health
- PHCM9626 Health Inequalities
- PHCM9628 Health Impact Assessment
- ENVS819 Environmental Health (Macquarie)
Location
South Eastern Sydney Research Collaboration Hub (SEaRCH)
Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
Level 3 AGSM Building
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052
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Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
Level 3 AGSM Building
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052
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Publications
by Associate Professor Ben Harris-Roxas
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1716-2009