‘Exploring the intersections between Health, Education and Community to optimise Australia’s Health Literacy’ Dr Rosie Nash, UTAS (April 2024)

It will be important for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to recognise the connectivity and opportunities provided by health literacy, Health in All Polices and a health and wellbeing economy.   Each separately and combined will be essential to national and global attempts to reduce non-communicable diseases, respond to communicable diseases, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ultimately move towards greater health and social equity.  Developing health literacy early in life is fundamental to achieving these outcomes.  Dr Nash will share the key insights and recommendations from her 2023 Churchill Fellowship.   This will be followed by a discussion on how we can all contribute to the health literacy development of Australians.

Increasing uptake of FIT bowel screening: The TEMPO randomised controlled trial testing a suggested deadline and a planning tool in Scotland, UK. (March 2024)

The talk will describe a recent trial of 40,000 participants within the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme evaluating two behavioural interventions: (a) a suggested deadline for return of the test; (b) a planning tool and (c) the combination of a deadline and planning tool on return of faecal immunochemical tests (FITs) for CRC screening.

#WeAreSydneyID - Understanding health Information (December, 2023)

Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute

Watch this video featuring Professor Kirsten McCaffery who is working to support communities in understanding health information.

#WeAreSydneyID - Health literacy (July, 2023)

Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute

Watch this video featuring Dr Carissa Bonner who is working on tools and strategies to support communities to have access to better health information.

Behavioural Insights Connect 2021: COVID-19 misinformation – Carissa Bonner (18 November 2021)

Watch the podcast from the second annual online series, hosted by the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA).

Sydney Ideas: The case for vaccination – Kirsten McCaffery et al (18 August 2021)

Vaccines offer a way out of COVID but its success is not without challenges. How do we overcome the gaps in understanding so that we’re backing the best chance we have in keeping ourselves and the community safe?

Facilitated by ABC’s Tegan Taylor (co-host of Australia’s chart-topping health podcast, Coronacast), this discussion is grounded in the science, with insights from experts from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health including:

– Professor Cheryl Jones, paediatric infectious diseases physician, clinician-scientist, Head of School and Dean of Sydney Medical School; and ATAGI member

– Professor Kirsten McCaffery, Principal Research Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health

– Professor Ramon Shaban, Professor of Infection Prevention and Disease Control

– Mustafa Dhahir, a current Doctor of Medicine student and Pharmacy graduate, with experience in community vaccinations; and he uses social media to empower the public’s understanding of health.

The COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination – has it led to more literate and engaged consumers? Kirsten McCaffery & Julie Leask (19 May 2021)

Watch the Choosing Wisely National Meeting presentations by Professors Kirsten McCaffery and Julie Leask.