My Expertise
health services, impact assessment, health equity
Field of Research (FoR)
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Biography
Research Interests
My research interests include health service planning, health equity, health impact assessment, and evaluation.
Broad Research Areas
- Integrated care
- Health impact assessment
- Health service planning and framework development
- Evaluation
- Health equity
- Place-based interventions to enhance health
- Health promotion
My Qualifications
PhD (UNSW), MPASR (Macquarie), BSW (UNSW)
My Research Activities
...view moreResearch Interests
My research interests include health service planning, health equity, health impact assessment, and evaluation.
Broad Research Areas
- Integrated care
- Health impact assessment
- Health service planning and framework development
- Evaluation
- Health equity
- Place-based interventions to enhance health
- Health promotion
My Qualifications
PhD (UNSW), MPASR (Macquarie), BSW (UNSW)
My Research Activities
Current research projects include:
- Evaluation of a Local Health District Integrated Care Strategy
- Carers' information and technology needs
- Access to, and participation in, cervical, breast and bowel cancer screening by specific cultural and language groups in Sydney
- Use of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) in clinical settings in Sydney
- Use oral health administrative data to examine patterns of service use
- Culturally sensitive service responses to extended family caregiving arrangements
- After-hours general practice services, access and impact
- Community Diabetes Management
- Integration in community aged care
- Health impact assessments of built environment and land use planning projects
- Use of health impact assessment in the health sector
N.B. These projects involve other academic investigators, partner and industry investigators, and research team members.
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
- integrated care
- health impact assessent
- primary health care
- shared care
- program evaluation
- health service planning
- health equity
- decision support tools
- partnerships
Currently supervising
Current student topics:
- Health equity in Sydney’s fastest growing area
- Models of shared care between primary health care and specialised alcohol and other drug services
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Longitudinal multiple case study study of the use of health impact assessment in health service planning
My Engagement
- Member, Global Working Group on Health Impact Assessment, International Union for Health Promotion and Education
- Member, Australasian Evaluation Society NSW Committee
- Editorial Board Member, Environmental Impact Assessment Review
- Editorial Board Member, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
- 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 and Canada
- Invited participant at two World Health Organization Consultations on Urban HEART and multisectoral action for health 2012 and 2014
- Technical support for for the WHO South East Asian Regional Office and the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office
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
Videos
Making Sense of Increasingly Diverse Approaches - HIA2012 Plenary in Quebec
Using Evernote and NVivo Together
Making Sense of Increasingly Diverse Approaches - IAIA12 Plenary in Quebec