A5005318109- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Management and Organizational Studies
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Global Health and Surgery
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Family Support in Illness
- Gut microbiota and health
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Sex work and related issues
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
The University of Sydney
2019-2025
Arizona State University
2021-2022
The Centers
2021
Maricopa County Department of Public Health
2021
Mayo Clinic in Arizona
2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2021
UNSW Sydney
2016-2019
Australian Research Council
2017
University of Westminster
2017
University of Oxford
2016
Much has been written about the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and action required to rein in this emerging global health threat. Addressing AMR is often operationalised as requiring 'behavior change' clinicians patients, combination with improving drug development pipeline. Few have approached a challenge fundamentally embedded within cultural fabric modern societies (varied) ways they are organised economically, socially politically. Here, drawing on decade work across range...
The opening years of the 21st century have witnessed rise ‘global health’ as preferred label for attempts to govern health global population. In this article, I locate epistemological origins in introduction Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) metric World Bank’s Investing Health report. argue that DALY accomplishes an economization life by disaggregating lifetimes into component units time and reassembling a revenue stream be maximized through practices self-investment one’s own –...
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has fundamentally disrupted the practice of oncology, shifting care onto virtual platforms, rearranging logistics and economics running a successful clinical research, in some contexts, redefining what treatments patients with cancer should can receive. Since start pandemic early 2020, there been considerable emphasis placed on implications for terms their vulnerability to virus potential exposure healthcare settings. But little significant,...
The end of life represents a therapeutic context that acutely raises cultural and linguistic specificities, yet there is very little evidence illustrating the importance such dynamics in shaping choices, trajectories care practices. Culture language interplay to offer considerable potential challenges both patient provider, with further work needed explore caregiver perspectives across cultures groups, provider perspectives. objective this study was develop critical, evidence-based...
The last few years of pandemic living have highlighted various temporal tensions that characterise our individual and collective futures. In some ways, the scale disruption caused by could be considered unprecedented. But in other underpin social life are long-standing, even routine. this special issue, ‘Future/Tense: A Sociology Temporal Dis/Order’, we take intensification relation to COVID-19 pandemic, well beyond it, as impetus interrogate how future is variously known, felt valued...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly escalating global health threat, known increasingly through different forms of monitoring. Surveillance, both resistant organisms and the antimicrobial prescribing practices that contribute to their proliferation, has increased dramatically over last decade. So too have audits, which are routinely deployed evaluate, ensure accountability for, alignment local with established “best practice” guidelines. However, governing AMR in this way raises...
The increased consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) represents one the greatest public health challenges current era, feeding into prevailing and accelerating problems. This paper brings together social science food concepts to develop a conceptual synthesis entanglements everyday practices broader social, political, economic systems. Drawing on theories practice advances in new materialism, we make case for attending distributed causation harm within evolving system complexity. should...
This study responds to calls for greater focus on nursing roles, and the need integration within antimicrobial optimisation agenda. The objective of this was explore Australian hospital nurses' views resistance stewardship (AMS) in a setting, order better understand opportunities challenges staff settings.
Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars range of empirical areas have documented deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from structures, institutions and systems governance. Yet these harms often been presented under rubric ‘unintended consequences’. The are designed to appear devoid intentionality, motion without any clear agency involved, thus particularly adept evading accountability structures forms responsibility. Drawing insights decades theory – as well three...
Caring for the dying presents perhaps most challenging site of informal care. Participation in caring roles such contexts has been prone to reification as a virtuous social practice, often without critical reflection implications caregivers. Here, drawing on interviews with carers who were providing care last few weeks or days life, we develop an understanding this setting morally ambiguous framed by relations duty, gift and virtue, but turn encapsulating experiences failure, shame...
Abstract The idea of ‘precision medicine’, which has gained increasing traction since the early 2000s, is now ubiquitous in health and medicine. Though varied its implementation across fields, precision medicine raised hopes revolutionary treatments spurred proliferation novel therapeutics, alteration professional trajectories various reconfigurations health/care. Nowhere promise more apparent, nor further institutionalised, than field oncology. While transformative potential widely taken...
The ‘typical’ trajectory of a person with cancer has been from diagnosis, through treatment, and towards cure (life) or the end life (death). Yet, survivorship as social practice is no longer contained by such neat categorisations. Much lived experience now centres on: living with, rather than beyond, disease; perpetuity treatment spectre and, making sense incurability. Using solicited diary methodology, in this article authors seek to chronicle for those in-between – often-overlooked lives...
It is now well-recognised that antimicrobial resistance (AMR), or the ability of organisms to resist currently available antibiotics and other drugs, represents one greatest dangers human health in 21st Century. As 2022, AMR a top-10 global public threat. Various national transnational initiatives have been implemented address accelerating AMR, pressure find local solutions increasing. Despite this urgency, surprisingly limited progress being made rolling back even slowing resistance. A...
ABSTRACT Objective: Experiences of bereavement can be stressful and are frequently complicated by emotional, familial, financial issues. Some—though not all—caregivers may benefit from support. While considered standard within palliative care services in Australia, support is widely utilized family caregivers. There little research focused on the forms desired or required caregivers, how such viewed, and/or experienced. This study examined experiences bereaved caregivers their impressions...
This article explores the experience and meaning of time from perspective caregivers who have recently been bereaved following death a family member. The study is situated within broader cultural tendency to understand bereavement logic stages, including perception as somewhat predictable certainly time-delimited ascent nadir in 'new normal' once loss accepted. Drawing on qualitative data interviews with 15 we challenge linear, temporally bound process, examining multiple ways experienced...
Abstract For three years, COVID-19 has circulated among our communities and around the world, fundamentally changing social interactions, health care systems, service delivery. people living with (and receiving treatment for) cancer, pandemic conditions presented significant additional hurdles in an already unstable shifting environment, including disrupted personal contact providers, interrupted access to clinical trials, distanced therapeutic encounters, multiple immune vulnerabilities,...
Objectives To explore informal caregivers’ perspectives on precision medicine in cancer care. Design Semi-structured interviews with the caregivers of people living and receiving targeted/immunotherapies. Interview transcripts were analysed thematically using a framework approach. Setting Recruitment was facilitated by two hospitals five Australian community groups. Participants Informal (n=28; 16 men, 12 women; aged 18–80) Results Thematic analysis identified three findings, centred largely...
To examine how regulatory structures and processes focused on antimicrobial stewardship resistance are experienced by hospital managers clinicians.
Being diagnosed with a life-limiting illness entails fundamental reshaping of one's relationship the future. From ‘bucket lists’ destinations and experiences to ‘flights hope’ for experimental or specialised medical care, diagnoses serious are deeply entwined travel in Australian cultural narratives. In this paper, we draw on thematic analysis interviews cancer patients their carers ask what meanings attached narratives – whether completed constrained, imagined interrupted context diagnosis....
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely reported to be a rapidly escalating global health threat. Investigations into the social dimensions of AMR have tended focus on economically wealthier nations, even though poorer countries are site considerable and often increasing antibiotic (mis)use. Understanding local dynamics resistance, we propose, requires critical sociological investigation at nexus economic development, structural constraints, cultural norms, infection-management practice....
Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) cause substantial morbidity to patients and are extremely challenging for clinicians. Their management can include multiple operations, antibiotics, prolonged hospital admissions. Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTM) increasingly used collaborative decision-making around the of PJIs, but thus far there has been no examination role MDTM in decisions management. This study aimed examine interactions a PJI identify dynamics decision-making, inter-specialty...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents a swiftly advancing challenge to wide range of healthcare and health promotion practices. While rising rates AMR share some dimensions across contexts, the specificities field, practice, place population shape – at times hinder attempts stem tide this threat. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are one area where threat has traditionally been met with lethargy. In paper, we draw on stakeholder perspectives innovation regulatory systems in Australia,...