Jane Taylor

Biography

Associate Professor Jane Taylor has 30 years’ experience as a health promotion professional and educator. Jane is the Public Health Discipline Lead in the School of Health at UniSc and leads a dynamic team of public health academics across health promotion, environmental health, epidemiology, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, and health economics specialisations. Jane’s expertise is in critical health promotion and public health education.

Research

Jane’s health promotion research focuses on strengthening the theoretical foundations of health promotion to support a critical (social justice and equity-focused) practice approach. This involves using critical health promotion values and principles to design, implement, evaluate and critique health promotion policies and programs, and undertake research. Jane developed and applies the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model and associated quality assessment tool (QATCHEPP) to design initiatives that address the socio-ecological determinants of health and wellbeing in organisational, community, and population level contexts, and to support practitioners to reorient practice toward a more critical approach.

Key publications

• O’Hara L*, Taylor J*. QATCHEPP: a quality assessment tool for critical health promotion. Frontiers in Public Health, Public Health Education and Promotion. 2023.11:1121932–. https://doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1121932
• O’Hara L, Taylor J. The Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model: a heuristic for the development of critical health promotion research and practice. Handbook for Health Promotion Research. Global Health and Education, UNESCO. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97212-7_36

Learning and teaching

Jane is passionate about public health education, teaches philosophical and technical undergraduate and postgraduate health promotion courses, and mentors public health academics to reach their potential as educators. She uses constructivist learning and teaching approaches and has established scholarship areas in public health and critical health promotion education, the flipped classroom, and interprofessional education. She is currently leading a whole of a school research project to ascertain health science academic staff from nine disciplines preparedness to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, perspectives and experiences into the curriculum.

Current grants

Lead researcher: Time for a yarn: How prepared is the SoH to provide students with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety education? Funded by School of Health, UniSc: $10 000.00

Recent publications

• O’Hara L*, Taylor J*. QATCHEPP: a quality assessment tool for critical health promotion. Frontiers in Public Health, Public Health Education and Promotion. 2023.11:1121932–. https://doi:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1121932
• Taylor J, Roiko A, Coombe L, et al. Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia, Public health education for a sustainable future “Call to Action”, 2021. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2023;47(2):100042-100042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100042
• CAPHIA Call to Action Public Health Education for a Sustainable Future.mp4
• Public health education for a sustainable future “Call to Action”, 2021 Brochure
• O’Hara L, Taylor J. Impact of the RLCHPM as a pedagogical framework on health promotion graduates’ professional practice: A mixed methods study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.642
• Blackford K, Taylor J, Devine S, Woodall J, Smith J. Excellence in health promotion learning and teaching scholarship. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.667
• Blackford K, Taylor J, Devine S, Woodall J, Smith J. Quality learning and teaching is vital for equipping the health promotion workforce to address complex public health challenges. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.666
• Taylor J, O’Hara L, Talbot L, Verrinder G. Promoting Health: The primary health care approach, 7^th Edition. Australia: Elsevier Australia; 2021. 496 pages. https://www.elsevierhealth.com.au/promoting-health-9780729543538.html
• Verdonck M, Wright H, Hamilton A, Taylor J. The educator’s experience of using flipped classrooms in a higher education setting. Active Learning in Higher Education. Published online 2022:146978742210915-. https://doi.org/10.1177/14697874221091596
• Shakhovskoy R, Dodd N, Masters N, New K, Hamilton A, Nash G, Barr N, George K, Pelly F, Reid C, Taylor J, Bogossian F. Recommendations for the design of interprofessional education: Findings from a narrative scoping review. Focus on Health Professional Education. 2022;23(4):82-117. https://doi.org/10.11157/fohpe.v23i4.608

Teaching areas

Health promotion principles

Health promotion community assessment and planning

Health promotion implementation and evaluation

Public health research

Expert Media Commentary

Health promotion, public health education