The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach

ICPA2023 Presentation by Jo Taylor, Elizabeth Sullivan and Tazeen Majeed (ICPA2023-PID139)

Authors

Jo Taylor

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Newcastle

Jo is an accomplished public health professional, with significant experience in public health and justice health research, lecturing, industry co-design and project management. She has a passion for health, equity, equality and lifelong learning.
Jo has experience across research designs and methodology including cluster randomised stepped wedge, randomised control trials, systematic review, mixed methods, cohort and qualitative. Jo demonstrates extensive hands-on experience and has a track record of collaborative co-designed projects that are translational, implementable that have impacted change of practice and policy for health services and industry.
Jo has expertise in distilling complex information into simple language for health services and vulnerable communities evidenced by peer reviewed publications, conference presentations, allocation of competitive grants and awards.

Tazeen Majeed

Senior Lecturer, Researcher, The University of Newcastle

Dr Tazeen Majeed is a medical doctor, a public health educator and researcher. Her work sees her collaborating with research groups, Australian and overseas governments, national and international organisations and policy makers. Her research covers a myriad of public health issues, focusing on justice health, vulnerable population groups, generational health and ageing, and gender differences in health issues. Through her work, Tazeen is aiming to help improve equity in ducation, health and health care for people who are vulnerable and marginalised especially those who are facing justice or correctional systems.
Tazeen also holds multiple teaching roles with the University across its undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs. Believing that education should be embedded within a framework of continual research, she is preparing her students to be global citizens and leaders who can successfully change the world for the better.

Elizabeth Sullivan

Professor, University of Newcastle

Professor Elizabeth Sullivan (MD, MBBS, MPH, MMed (Sexual Health), FAFPHM) is a public health physician and medical epidemiologist. Professor Sullivan is Research Lead in Custodial Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network in New South Wales, Australia, and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Health Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. Professor Sullivan has an extensive record of government appointments and research leadership and is a Council member of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine Council.
Professor Sullivan leads a program of research on justice health investigating the criminalisation of poverty. Her research focuses on health inequality among people in contact with the justice system, women and mothering in prison, the intergenerational transmission of incarceration, and interventions to improve health and transitioning to the community and to reduce recidivism. Additionally, Professor Sullivan is an international expert in observational epidemiology and the generation of new knowledge in population health and health services research that focuses on vulnerable reproductive populations (e.g., Aboriginal women; mental health, substance use, or severe/chronic illness in pregnancy; and assisted reproductive technology).Professor Sullivan was a Former Council member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (2015-2018), has been awarded more than 21 million in research funding, and has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications and reports. She is committed to gender equity and diversity and led the University of Technology Sydney to its inaugural Athena SWAN bronze award.

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