Danielle Muscat

Danielle Muscat is the Westmead Lead of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab.

She currently holds a highly-competitive Westmead Fellowship (Early Career Researcher) funded by Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) and is the Director of Research of the WSLHD Health Literacy Hub (a locality-based research, development and capacity-building hub including >1300 health staff, patients and consumers).

Danielle’s work is focused on improving health literacy among socially disadvantaged groups to empower them to be active participants in decisions about their health. Her doctoral project involved the development and evaluation of a world-first health literacy program for Australian adults attending adult basic literacy courses at TAFE across New South Wales. Danielle has continued this work in her post-doctoral role, developing and evaluating health literacy programs and interventions for new parents and adults living with chronic kidney disease.

Danielle’s strong international profile in health literacy is demonstrated by her appointment in 2019 as an Advisor on Health Literacy to the World Health Organization (ongoing). In October 2021, Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithms placed Dr Muscat in the top 1% of scholars writing about Health Literacy over the past 10 years.