ANZJPH Editors & Editorial Board

Editors

Dr Jeanne Daly Managing Editor ANZJPH

Jeanne Daly is a Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia and has been Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health since 2000. The editorial task continues to be of absorbing interest. She takes responsibility (and the blame) for taking the Journal online and for changing the editorial structure. Her training in the physical sciences, environmental science and sociology make her comfortable with multidisciplinary work but in her research career she specialised in using qualitative research methods to address clinical problems. She has an adjunct appointment in Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne. One of her books is Evidence-based medicine and the search for a science of clinical care (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2005). She drew on this analysis to propose a hierarchy of evidence for qualitative research (Daly J. Willis K. Small R. et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 60. 2007;60:43-49). She coauthored The Public Health Researcher: a methodological guide (Oxford University Press,1997) devoted to the analysis of public health research across all methods and a number of her edited books derive from a commitment to debate on health research and research methods.

Professor John Lowe Senior Editor ANZJPH

Professor John Lowe was Editor of the Australian and NewZealand Journal of Public Health (1998-2000) and prior to that, Editor of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. He is Professor and Head of the School of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. His research interests are in cancer control and prevention and injury prevention. Since 1980, he has worked in the area of intervention studies for the cessation of smoking among adults, pregnant women, and the prevention and cessation of smoking among youth. He is internationally known for his work in the area of skin cancer prevention. Today, Professor Lowe continues to focus his research on community development and empowerment to make sustainable long-term changes to promote health. His previous posts include Professor and Head of the Department of Community and Behavioural Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa in the US. While at the University of Iowa, he also held the position of Associate Director for Population Science of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Centre and directed two research centres, the CDC funded Iowa Prevention Research Centre and the Iowa Tobacco Research Centre. Prior to this he was Director of the Cancer Prevention Research Centre at the University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine. Professor Lowe received his doctorate in Community Health/Behavioural Science from the University of Texas Health Science Centre, School of Public Health. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Health Promotion Association and the American Academy of Health Behaviour.

Sandra Thompson is a public health physician and an academic in the Centre for International Health at Curtin University. She has worked in several Australian jurisdictions and previous positions have included postdoctoral research at the Walter and Eliza Research Institute, Deputy Head, Epidemiology and Social Research Unit, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Specialist Public Health Medicine in the Population Health Unit in Alice Springs and Medical Co-ordinator, Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program in the Department of Health in Western Australia. Her research career has included laboratory science, epidemiology and social sciences. For many years her focus was primarily upon communicable diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases and immunisation, sexual health and blood-borne viruses and disease surveillance and this stimulated her interest in improving the health of vulnerable populations. More recently she has been focusing on chronic disease and health services research, with particular interest in the health of Indigenous Australians, developing and maintaining better partnerships between Aboriginal Community Controlled Services and mainstream health services, and how we can ensure that good quality research better informs policy and service delivery. She is strong believer in collaboration and the importance of multidisciplinary approaches in public health given the complexity of the health system and the importance of the social determinants of health.

Priscilla Robinson is the academic co-ordinator for Master of Public Health program at La Trobe University in Victoria. She has extensive fieldwork and teaching experience having worked in primary health and public health departments in both Victoria and in England; she has been both a student and teacher at several Victorian universities, maintaining working relationships with various ongoing adjunct appointments. She has represented Australian Network of Academic Public Health Institutions at meetings in Europe and Canada, contributing to the debates on public health competencies, regulation or public health teaching and registration of public health practitioners. She supervises and teaches student research and is passionate (obsessive?) about methodological rigour, regardless of method. Her research interests are broadly described as epidemiological but wide ranging, covering communicable diseases, international health, and the relationship between the arts and public health (not as divergent as this might seem). As well as a range of academic papers she has contributed book chapters to works on public health law and public health practice, and to major reports on risk communication. She has considerable experience in, and is an enthusiastic reviewer of, papers and books for this and several other journals.

Alistair Woodward brings with him past experience with this Journal and adding the necessary expertise for assessing the good proportion of papers that are submitted from New Zealand. Alistair Woodward is Head of the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, Australia and after hospital and general practice, undertook postgraduate training in public health in the UK. He returned to Adelaide to the Department of Community Medicine, and for several years was one of the editors of Community Health Studies, the forerunner of the ANZJPH. His research and teaching interests include environmental health, tobacco control and social epidemiology. He has been a member of the writing group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the past three assessment reports. Spare time is for mountains, books and riding bicycles.

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