About
Profile
Tara Gamble’s career in health practice commenced as a Registered Nurse, before transitioning to a career in Health Promotion, working in health promotion practice and now tertiary education.
Tara is an experienced teacher, course coordinating two large, first-year health courses. Tara has a passion and strong interest in optimising the first-year experience, with a focus on the engagement and wellbeing of health students. In her courses, Tara aims to enable all health students to collaborate for comprehensive action across the primary healthcare continuum and the promotion of equity as a key foundation for health practice. Pedagogically, Tara designs courses utilising a flipped model for learning and teaching.
Tara’s research focusses on the community health and wellbeing assessment component of the health promotion practice cycle.
Teaching areas
- HLT140 Think Health
- PUB112 Public Health Foundations
Scholarship of learning and teaching
- First Year Experience
- Blended, flipped course design
Engagement
- UniSC Public Health Discipline First Year Experience Lead
- UniSC School of Health First Year Experience Working Group
- UniSC Public Health Discipline Seminar Coordinator
- Australian Health Promotion Association: Health Promotion Ethics Project Working Group
Memberships
Australian Health Promotion Association
Organisational Affiliations
Education
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