Brooke Nickel

Dr Brooke Nickel (BSc Hons, MIPH, PhD) is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow in The University of Sydney School of Public Health.

Brooke is part of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab and Wiser Healthcare Research Collaboration. Her research focuses on evidence-based healthcare communication and decision making, with a particular focus on cancer; the psychosocial impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment; and overdiagnosis. The work she has led (first/senior author) has been published in high impact international medical journals in the field including The BMJ, MJA, the JAMA, Lancet series, and JNCI.

She has worked with the Australian Department of Health and is currently working with BreastScreen programs and services on research related to understanding the benefits and harms of breast density notification in Australia. She also leads and collaborates on other cancer, women’s health and public health research.