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Acceptance of papers for the Australian Journal of Primary Health is managed by the Editorial Panel and supported by an Editorial Board.
The Journal regularly publishes special issues that examine themes of interest. For these issues the Editors engage guest editors who specialise in the area.
Editorial Panel
- Libby Kalucy (chair)
Elizabeth (Libby) Kalucy is keenly interested in disseminating primary health care research findings for optimum impact. She is Director of the Primary Health Care Research and Information Service, having worked in primary and community health research and evaluation in South Australia since 1988.
- John Furler
John Furler is a full-time senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne and also a GP at the North Richmond Community Health Centre. John´s research interests include health inequalities and chronic illness care in general practice, the doctor-patient relationship, patient centeredness and the co-construction of social identity in medical care and the ways in which medical practice may act as a social determinant of health.
- Virginia Lewis
Virginia Lewis is Director of Research and Evaluation at the Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing (AIPCA) and Head of the Centre for Health Systems Development (CHSD). Virginia´s academic research has been focused on social psychology, concerned particularly with attitude measurement and attitude-behaviour theory. She has extensive experience in questionnaire design, construction and analysis.
- Wayne Usher
Wayne Usher is a lecturer at the School of Education and Professional Studies. His experience stretches across such fields as education, health promotion and technology. His current research gives specific attention to modern communication technologies (social media) and how they are creating changes to knowledge management and information dissemination, as well as the impacts of health websites on the health practitioner and e-health consumer relationship.
- Rae Walker
Rae Walker is a social scientist who has taught health promotion and education for many years. Her research interests are in primary health care with a particular focus on collaboration and trust, in a public health perspective on community violence.
Editorial Board
- Ross Bailie, Menzies School of Health Research, Brisbane
- Frances Baum, Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, Adelaide
- Phillip Davies, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane
- Tony Dowell, Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington
- Elizabeth Halcomb, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Penrith
- Elizabeth Harris, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- Vivian Lin, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne
- Rob Macindoe, Victorian Primary and Community Health Network
- Chris Pearce, Australian General Practice Network
- Alan Shiell, Centre for Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science, Carlton
- Hal Swerisson, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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