Dr Julie-Anne Carroll
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Julie-Anne Carroll, PhD, is a Lecturer in the School of Public Health & Social Work (SPHSW), Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She lectures in the areas of Gender Equity, the Social Determinants of Health, and Sociology and Health. Her PhD investigated how place of residence acts as a social determinant of health, and how aspects of people and places interact over time to produce inequalities in health. She is interested in how the social, cultural, and geographic spaces that people inhabit influence their lifestyles and consequently their health and well-being. She is currently PI on a Sexual Health Research Fund (SHRF) that is investigating the acceptability and feasibility of Antibiotics as STI Preventative Treatments in at-risk social groups such as GBMSM, Indigenous communities, sex workers and highly sexually active young people. She has also worked extensively on m-health app development and GIS tracking on mobile phones for diagnosis and behaviour change. In collaboration with her PhD student, Clarence Baxter, she has successfully gained a commercial licence on an app called QUTINSPIRE, which is a virtual replica of a spirometer device. She has an ongoing consultancy with HELFIE .She is passionate about recognising the need for structural, economic, and political changes to reduce social, economic, and health inequalities globally, and using digital and technological strategies to achieve this.Key Research interests
- Health inequalities
- Geographic and economic inequalities
- Gender and sexuality inequalities
- Social, cultural and environmental influences on health-related behaviours and outcomes
- ICTs, Social Media, Online Communication and Health
- m-Health, mobile phone apps for data collection and behaviour change
- Social marketing and persuasive communication
- Qualitative and mixed-method research methods.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Research field
Public health
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
One Woman Project - Board of Directors
UN Women - Member and Guest Speaker
NCWQ - Board Member and Keynote Speaker
Journal of Public Space - Panel Member/Editor
Teaching
My pedagogical philosophy is based on a commitment to inclusivity, safety, belonging, bravery, critical thought, and interrogation of ideologies that impact on human health and equity. I believe that 'we teach who we are ' (Parker Palmer, 2018). I endeavour to make my classroom a space for the voice of every student to be heard and to contribute to iterative, co-constructivist processes of collective learning.
PUN106 - Social Determinants of Health (Master of Public Health)
Health professionals face a complex and changing health profile locally, nationally, and internationally. A biomedical model for understanding health problems does not adequately explain these complexities or sufficiently help health professionals successfully intervene to improve the population's health. It is therefore critical for health professionals to reflect upon the social, economic and behavioural factors that influence health and work in partnership to influence these factors.
PUB209 - Health, Culture and Society
In this unit we study social and cultural dimensions of the human body, mind, and health. The unit focuses on public health from sociological and anthropological perspectives, with a core emphasis on the ways in which social, cultural, political, and economic systems shape human health behaviours and outcomes.
PUB336 - Gender Equity and Human Health
Gender is a powerful determinant of human health globally. Men's, women’s and transgender health are driven strongly by social constructions of gender performance across the life-course. This unit will adopt a non-binary, social determinants approach to defining and studying gender from an intersectional perspective. It will emphasise how a focus on gender equity generates improvement in population health globally. This is a multidisciplinary and interprofessional unit and welcomes students from a wide range of courses.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Julie-Anne, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).