Julie Ayre

Dr Ayre is a behavioural scientist and postdoctoral researcher within the Sydney Health Literacy Lab.

Her research has focused on health literacy, digital health, and behaviour change across varied health conditions (e.g. diabetes, low back pain, COVID-19). She led development of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab’s Health Literacy Editor, an online text-editing tool that helps health information providers develop easy-to-read health information. She has also led Australia’s largest multi-language survey capturing COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours.

Julie has extensive experience in health communication, behaviour change and implementation research and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is passionate about advancing health literacy theory and research, and its translation into Australian health systems. She sits on the scientific advisory team that is currently developing the 2022 National Health Literacy Strategy on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health.