Degeling, Chris

Top Publications

Year	Title
2021	How should we conduct pandemic vaccination? Published in Vaccine
2020	Ending TB in Australia: Organizational challenges for regional tuberculosis programs Published in Health Policy
2018	Rabies response, One Health and more-than-human considerations in Indigenous communities in northern Australia Published in Social Science and Medicine
2017	Influencing health policy through public deliberation: Lessons learned from two decades of Citizens'/community juries Published in Social Science and Medicine
2015	Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research Published in Social Science and Medicine

Research Areas

Research Overview

I am a health social scientist and philosopher who is interested in the social and political dimensions of disease prevention. I conduct value-based social research to explore health policy problems and inform policy processes. Research interests include: human-animal health interactions; the politics and ethics of infectious disease control; and, the influence of technologies and systems on medical reasoning and public health decision making.

Empirically, my work explores the values and interests of those with a stake in these areas of science and practice. Methodologically, I have developed extensive expertise in deliberative methods, Delphi techniques, qualitative research and applied ethics.

Available as Research Supervisor

Member Of

Molecular Horizons Associate Member 2020 -
Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong Senior Fellow 2019 -
Sydney Health Ethics, The University of Sydney Honorary Associate 2018 -
School of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney Honorary Associate 2010 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Changes in the Framing of Antimicrobial Resistance in Print Media in Australia and the United Kingdom (2011¿2020): A Comparative Qualitative Content and Trends Analysis Published In Antibiotics
2021	Conducting Qualitative Research Online: Challenges and Solutions Published In Patient
2021	Corrigendum: Responsibility-sharing for pets in disasters: Lessons for One Health promotion arising from disaster management challenges. Published In Health promotion international
2021	Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers¿ experiences of COVID-19 Published In Health and Place
2021	Experiences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic amongst Australian Healthcare workers: From stressors to protective factors. Published In The Journal of hospital infection
2021	How should we conduct pandemic vaccination? Published In Vaccine
2021	Priority allocation of pandemic influenza vaccines in Australia ¿ Recommendations of 3 community juries Published In Vaccine
2021	Public health practitioner perspectives on dealing with measles outbreaks if high anti-vaccination sentiment is present Published In BMC Public Health
2021	Representations of free-living and unrestrained dogs as an emerging public health issue in australian newspapers Published In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2021	Responsibility-sharing for pets in disasters: lessons for One Health promotion arising from disaster management challenges. Published In Health promotion international
2021	Should Digital Contact Tracing Technologies be used to Control COVID-19? Perspectives from an Australian Public Deliberation Published In Health Care Analysis
2021	Terminology Change for Small Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer As a Response to Overtreatment: Results from Three Australian Community Juries Published In Thyroid
2021	Women¿s Experiences of and Perspectives on Transvaginal Mesh Surgery for Stress Urine Incontinency and Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Qualitative Systematic Review Published In Patient
2021	¿One minute it's an airborne virus, then it's a droplet virus, and then it's like nobody really knows¿¿: Experiences of pandemic PPE amongst Australian healthcare workers Published In Infection, Disease and Health
2020	Australian and New Zealand Veterinary Students¿ Ranking of Issues in Aquatic Animal Welfare and Ethics Published In Anthrozoos
2020	Changes in public preferences for technologically enhanced surveillance following the COVID-19 pandemic: A discrete choice experiment Published In BMJ Open
2020	Citizens' juries give verdict on whether private practice veterinarians should attend unvaccinated Hendra virus suspect horses Published In Australian Veterinary Journal
2020	Community perspectives on the benefits and risks of technologically enhanced communicable disease surveillance systems: A report on four community juries Published In BMC Medical Ethics
2020	Ending TB in Australia: Organizational challenges for regional tuberculosis programs Published In Health Policy
2020	From more-than-human solidarity to multi-species biographical value: insights from a veterinary school about ethical dilemmas in One Health promotion Published In Sociology of Health and Illness
2020	Insights into culturally appropriate latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening in NSW: perspectives of Indian and Pakistani migrants Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2020	More philosophical work needed in One Health on ethical frameworks and theory Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2020	One Health and Zoonotic Uncertainty in Singapore and Australia: Examining Different Regimes of Precaution in Outbreak Decision-Making Published In Public Health Ethics
2020	One Health promotion and the politics of dog management in remote, northern Australian communities Published In Scientific Reports
2020	Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories Published In Social Science and Medicine
2020	Perspectives of Vietnamese, Sudanese and South Sudanese immigrants on targeting migrant communities for latent tuberculosis screening and treatment in low-incidence settings: A report on two Victorian community panels Published In Health Expectations
2020	Qualitative Research for One Health: From Methodological Principles to Impactful Applications Published In Frontiers in Veterinary Science
2020	Review of the online one welfare portal: Shared curriculum resources for veterinary undergraduate learning and teaching in animal welfare and ethics Published In Animals
2020	The introduction and demise of full-body computed tomography (CT) scanning in Australia: implications for preventing overdiagnosis Published In Critical Public Health
2020	Tuberculosis in migrants - screening, surveillance and ethics Published In PNEUMONIA
2020	Verdict on the obligations of private veterinarians attending unvaccinated Hendra virus suspect horses afforded by three citizens' juries Published In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2020	What is a dingo? The phenotypic classification of dingoes by aboriginal and torres strait islander residents in northern australia Published In Animals
2019	A healthy, sustainable and safe food system: examining the perceptions and role of the Australian policy actor using a Delphi survey Published In Public Health Nutrition
2019	Australian and New Zealand Veterinary Students' Opinions on Animal Welfare and Ethical Issues Concerning Animal Use within Sport, Recreation, and Display Published In JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION
2019	Australian and New Zealand veterinary students' opinions on animal welfare and ethical issues concerning animal use within sport, recreation, and display Published In Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
2019	Citizens' juries can bring public voices on overdiagnosis into policy making Published In BMJ: British Medical Journal
2019	Communicable Disease Surveillance Ethics in the Age of Big Data and New Technology Published In Asian Bioethics Review
2019	Correction: Factors influencing the behaviour and perceptions of Australian veterinarians towards antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (PLoS ONE (2019) 14:10 (e0223534) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223534) Published In PLoS ONE
2019	Corrigendum: A healthy, sustainable and safe food system: Examining the perceptions and role of the Australian policy actor using a Delphi survey (Public Health Nutrition (2019) (1-10) DOI: 10.1017/S136898001900185X) Published In Public Health Nutrition
2019	Developing and applying a deductive coding framework to assess the goals of Citizen/Community Jury deliberations Published In Health Expectations
2019	Does One Health require a novel ethical framework? Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2019	Factors influencing the behaviour and perceptions of Australian veterinarians towards antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance Published In PLoS One
2019	Guest Editorial Published In Monash Bioethics Review
2019	Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology Published In Socio-Ecological Practice Research
2019	Perspectives of Australian policy-makers on the potential benefits and risks of technologically enhanced communicable disease surveillance - a modified Delphi survey Published In Health Research Policy and Systems
2019	Public attitudes towards novel reproductive technologies: A citizens' jury on mitochondrial donation Published In Human Reproduction
2019	Public preferences for One Health approaches to emerging infectious diseases: A discrete choice experiment Published In Social Science and Medicine
2019	Veterinary students' opinions on their required competence in dealing with welfare and ethics issues pertaining to wildlife Published In Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
2018	Assessing the public acceptability of proposed policy interventions to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in Australia: A report on two community juries Published In Health Expectations
2018	Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives Published In Public Culture: an interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies
2018	Defining, estimating, and communicating overdiagnosis in cancer screening Published In Annals of Internal Medicine
2018	Defining, estimating, and communicating overdiagnosis in cancer screening Published In Annals of Internal Medicine
2018	Going viral in PNG – Exploring routes and circumstances of entry of a rabies-infected dog into Papua New Guinea Published In Social Science and Medicine
2018	Importance of welfare and ethics competence regarding animals kept for scientific purposes to veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand Published In Veterinary Sciences
2018	Managing the risk of Hendra virus spillover in Australia using ecological approaches: A report on three community juries Published In PLoS One
2018	Opportunities and challenges to improving antibiotic prescribing practices through a One Health approach: results of a comparative survey of doctors, dentists and veterinarians in Australia Published In BMJ Open
2018	Rabies response, One Health and more-than-human considerations in Indigenous communities in northern Australia Published In Social Science and Medicine
2018	Ranking of production animalwelfare and ethics issues in Australia and New Zealand by veterinary students Published In Veterinary Sciences
2018	Should women aged 70–74 be invited to participate in screening mammography? A report on two Australian community juries Published In BMJ Open
2017	A Delphi Survey and Analysis of Expert Perspectives on One Health in Australia Published In Ecohealth
2017	Companion Animals in Natural Disasters: A Scoping Review of Scholarly Sources Published In Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
2017	Dog-bites, rabies and One Health: Towards improved coordination in research, policy and practice Published In Social Science and Medicine
2017	Eliminating latent tuberculosis in low-burden settings: Are the principal beneficiaries to be disadvantaged groups or the broader population? Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2017	Influencing health policy through public deliberation: Lessons learned from two decades of Citizens'/community juries Published In Social Science and Medicine
2017	Students’ opinions on welfare and ethics issues for companion animals in Australian and New Zealand veterinary schools Published In Australian Veterinary Journal
2017	The importance of animal welfare science and ethics to veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand Published In Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
2017	The use of a virtual online debating platform to facilitate student discussion of potentially polarising topics Published In Animals
2016	A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2016	A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis: response to commentaries Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2016	All care, but whose responsibility? Community juries reason about expert and patient responsibilities in prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer Published In Health
2016	Beyond Biomedicine: Relationships and Care in Tuberculosis Prevention Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2016	CJCheck Stage 1: development and testing of a checklist for reporting community juries – Delphi process and analysis of studies published in 1996–2015 Published In Health Expectations
2016	Career preferences and opinions on animal welfare and ethics: A survey of veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand Published In Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
2016	Culling and the Common Good: Re-evaluating Harms and Benefits under the One Health Paradigm Published In Public Health Ethics
2016	Habitus and responsible dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of ‘dog-shaped’ holes in people’s lives Published In Critical Public Health
2016	Public engagement and community participation in governing urban parks: a case study in changing and implementing a policy addressing off-leash dogs Published In Critical Public Health
2016	The cat’s cradle of responsibility: assigning and taking responsibility for companion animals in natural disasters Published In Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
2015	Citizens, Consumers and Animals: What Role do Experts Assign to Public Values in Establishing Animal Welfare Standards? Published In Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
2015	Implementing a One Health approach to emerging infectious disease: Reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions Published In BMC Public Health
2015	Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2015	Policies on pets for healthy cities: a conceptual framework Published In Health Promotion International
2015	Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity Published In Social Science and Medicine
2015	Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: An overview of key concepts Published In International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2015	The Political and Ethical Challenge of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2015	The challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition Published In BMJ: British Medical Journal
2015	The first shared online curriculum resources for veterinary undergraduate learning and teaching in animal welfare and ethics in Australia and New Zealand Published In Animals
2015	Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research Published In Social Science and Medicine
2015	“What should happen before asymptomatic men decide whether or not to have a PSA test?” A report on three community juries Published In Medical Journal of Australia
2014	Don’t be scared, be angry: The politics and ethics of Ebola Published In Medical Journal of Australia
2014	Equity under the knife: Justice and evidence in surgery Published In Bioethics
2014	Faith-based perspectives on the use of chimeric organisms for medical research. Published In Transgenic Research
2014	How Western national interest drives Ebola drug development Published In The Conversation
2014	Toward stronger theory in critical public health: Insights from debates surrounding posthumanism Published In Critical Public Health
2013	Bioethics and Nonhuman Animals Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2013	Evaluating animal models: Some taxonomic worries Published In The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: a forum for bioethics and philosophy of medicine
2013	Hendra in the news: Public policy meets public morality in times of zoonotic uncertainty Published In Social Science and Medicine
2013	It’s a dog’s life when man’s best friend becomes his fattest Published In The Conversation
2013	Of mice and men: role of mice in biomedical research questioned Published In The Conversation
2013	Public Health Ethics and a Status for Pets as Person-Things: Revisiting the Place of Animals in Urbanized Societies Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2013	What to Think of Canine Obesity? Emerging Challenges to Our Understanding of Human-Animal Health Relationships Published In Social Epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy
2013	‘It was not just a walking experience’: reflections on the role of care in dog-walking Published In Health Promotion International
2012	An investigation of the association between socio-demographic factors, dog-exercise requirements, and the amount of walking dogs receive Published In Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research
2012	Animals-as-Patients: Improving the Practice of Animal Experimentation Published In Between the Species: an online journal for the study of philosophy and animals
2012	Erratum to: Correction to "Portrayals of Canine Obesity in English-Language Newspapers and in Leading Veterinary Journals, 2000-2009: Implications for Animal Welfare Organizations and Veterinarians as Public Educators" ((2011), 14, 4 (286-303)) Published In Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
2012	Hemoglobin a1c as a diagnostic tool: Public health implications from an actor-network perspective Published In American Journal of Public Health
2012	Narrative medicine: Learning through stories Published In The Veterinary Record
2012	Owning the problem: Media portrayals of overweight dogs and the shared determinants of the health of human and companion animal populations Published In Anthrozoos: a multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of people and animals
2012	Testing relationships: Ethical arguments for screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus with HbA1C Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2012	Uncanny Animals: Thinking Differently About Ethics and the Animal-Human Relationship Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2011	Portrayals of canine obesity in English-language newspapers and in leading veterinary journals, 2000-2009: Implications for animal welfare organizations and veterinarians as public educators Published In Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
2011	Understanding corporate responsibility: Culture and complicity Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2011	When Species Meet Published In HEALTH
2010	Cutting a Bone to Heal a Ligament: Idealized Animals and Orthopaedics Published In Medicine Studies: an international journal for history, philosophy, and ethics of medicine and allied sciences
2009	Fractured hips: surgical authority, futility and innovation in nineteenth century medicine Published In Endeavour
2009	Lost in Translation: Gaps in Reasoning for Primate Stroke Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2009	Negotiating Value: Comparing Human and Animal Fracture Care in Industrial Societies Published In Science, Technology and Human Values
2009	Picturing the Pain of Animal Others: Rationalising Form, Function and Suffering in Veterinary Orthopaedics Published In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2009	Picturing the pain of animal others: Rationalising form, function and suffering in veterinary orthopaedics Published In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2009	The rise of the medical research council and the politics of control Published In Metascience
2009	Underdetermined Interests: Scientific ‘Goods’ and Animal Welfare Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2008	Canines, Consanguinity, and One-Medicine: All the Qualities of a Dog except Loyalty Published In Health and History
2006	Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries Published In Health and History

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Deliberative methods Published In SAGE Research Methods Foundations Publisher London
2019	The ethics of One Health Published In One Planet, One Health Publisher Sydney, Australia
2018	Evaluating the Contributions of one health initiatives to social sustainability Published In Integrated approaches to health A handbook for the evaluation of One Health Publisher The Netherlands
2016	Dying a Natural Death: Ethics and Political Activism for Endemic Infectious Disease Published In Endemic Essays in Contagion Theory Publisher United Kingdom
2016	Toward “One Health” Promotion Published In A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health Publisher United States
2015	Introduction Published In Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on non-human futures Publisher Sydney, Australia

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	2 What¿s in a name? Defining and labelling disease and its role in reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment Published In BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
2018	12¿The introduction and demise of full body computed tomography (CT) scanning in australia: implications for preventing overdiagnosis

Editor Of

Book
- Life in the Anthropocene. Australia. 2015

Investigator On

Year	Title
2022 - 2025	Preparing Australia for the next pandemic: Managing controversy; promoting trust Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Ideas Grant
2020 - 2023	The algorithm will see you now: ethical, legal and social implications of adopting machine learning systems for diagnosis and screening Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Ideas Grant
2020 - 2022	Narratives of Recovery - Practices supporting community mental health and well being post bush fires and COVID 19 Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: COVID-19 Mental Health Research Grant
2017 - 2020	Developing evidence-based strategies for addressing childhood vaccination rejection Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2015 - 2018	Can One Health strategies be more effectively implemented through prior identification of public values? Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
	Preventing Mitochondrial Disease using Genomics - Social, legal and ethical aspects Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: Genomics Health Futures Mission Projects Grant
	TB elimination: a qualitative investigation of the perspectives of South Asian migrant communities in the Illawarra. Awarded by: Australian Respiratory Council Funding Scheme: Harry Windsor Grant

Other Research Activities

National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence “Protecting the Public from Emerging Infectious Diseases. $2.5 million Associate Investigator 2016 - 2022
Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne Heath, Community Panels on Targeted Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection; $60,000 Lead Investigator 2019 - 2020
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging, Citizens’ juries as an extension of the initial pandemic influenza vaccination target groups (TP707690), $123,000 Lead Investigator 2018 - 2020
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Social justice and pet ownership: A qualitative inquiry to improve population health and advance public health ethics. $342,756 CAD. Co-Investigator 2014 - 2017
Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. Nationally shared curriculum resources for veterinary undergraduate learning in animal welfare and ethics. $378,000 AUD. Chief Investigator C 2014 - 2016
National Health and Medical Research Council: Evaluating cancer screening: context, evidence, values and ethics; $620,120 AUD. CI E 2012 - 2016
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Novel insights into how health is generated in urban settings: A ‘natural experiment’ study of off-leash areas, Institute of Population and Public Health Population Health Intervention Research Strategic Competition, $197,783, CAD. Co-Investigator 2011 - 2014

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Exploring perceptions as to the role and value of environmental health workers (EHWs) in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
The social and cultural dimensions of antimicrobial stewardship at the point of care

Teaching Activities

Ecology, Public Health and the Environment (Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator and Lecturer 2015 - 2017
Science and Ethics (Faculty of Science, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator and Lecturer 2012 - 2014
Science and Society (Faculty of Science, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator and Lecturer 2012 - 2014
Bioethics (Faculty of Science, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator 2011 - 2014

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Does Uncertainty Tolerance contribute to Overprescribing? Informing Stewardship for Healthcare Staff in Aged-Care Settings	Singh, Saniya
Doctor of Philosophy	People, Pets and Communities in Natural Disasters: A Case for One Health Promotion	Travers, Cheryl
Doctor of Philosophy	A critical analysis of transvaginal mesh procedures in Australia	Motamedi, Mina

Reviewer Of

NHMRC External project grant reviewer (Research Proposal) 2015 - 2018

Professional Service Activities

National Health and Medical Research Council Member of Mitochondial Donation Expert Working Committee 2019 - 2020

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, School of History and Philosophy in Science 2005 - 2009
Graduate Diploma of Social Science in Science and Technology Studies, University of Sydney, Faculty of Science 2004 - 2005
B.V.S., University of Sydney, The Faculty of Veterinary Science 1989 - 1993
University of Calgary, Department of Community Health Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Promotion at the Human Animal Interface 2010 - 2012

Credentials

Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 1997

Teaching Overview

Although my current role is research intensive, I have extensive experience in university teaching and learning including course development, course coordination and lecturing (both as principal and guest lecturer). Courses taught while I was working at the University of Sydney include:

PUBH 5423 Ecology, Public Health and the Environment: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney. An elective course for Masters of Public Health students

HPSC 3024 Science & Ethics: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. The University of Sydney. A final year course of Undergraduate science students

HSPC 3022 Science and Society: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney. A core Sociology of Science subject for final year students majoring in History and Philosophy of Science in the Bachelor of Science Degree.

HPSC 1000/ 1900 Bioethics: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney. A foundational lecture-based course (350+ students) in Bioethics for Undergraduates.

In 2014 I was a key member of the team awarded funding by the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) in 2014 to develop nationally shared resources for undergraduate learning in animal welfare and ethics. http://onewelfare.cve.edu.au/

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4279-3443 (confirmed)

Top Publications

Year	Title
2021	How should we conduct pandemic vaccination? Published in Vaccine
2020	Ending TB in Australia: Organizational challenges for regional tuberculosis programs Published in Health Policy
2018	Rabies response, One Health and more-than-human considerations in Indigenous communities in northern Australia Published in Social Science and Medicine
2017	Influencing health policy through public deliberation: Lessons learned from two decades of Citizens'/community juries Published in Social Science and Medicine
2015	Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research Published in Social Science and Medicine

Research Areas

Research Overview

I am a health social scientist and philosopher who is interested in the social and political dimensions of disease prevention. I conduct value-based social research to explore health policy problems and inform policy processes. Research interests include: human-animal health interactions; the politics and ethics of infectious disease control; and, the influence of technologies and systems on medical reasoning and public health decision making.

Empirically, my work explores the values and interests of those with a stake in these areas of science and practice. Methodologically, I have developed extensive expertise in deliberative methods, Delphi techniques, qualitative research and applied ethics.

Member Of

Molecular Horizons Associate Member 2020 -
Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong Senior Fellow 2019 -
Sydney Health Ethics, The University of Sydney Honorary Associate 2018 -
School of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney Honorary Associate 2010 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Changes in the Framing of Antimicrobial Resistance in Print Media in Australia and the United Kingdom (2011¿2020): A Comparative Qualitative Content and Trends Analysis Published In Antibiotics
2021	Conducting Qualitative Research Online: Challenges and Solutions Published In Patient
2021	Corrigendum: Responsibility-sharing for pets in disasters: Lessons for One Health promotion arising from disaster management challenges. Published In Health promotion international
2021	Entanglements of affect, space, and evidence in pandemic healthcare: An analysis of Australian healthcare workers¿ experiences of COVID-19 Published In Health and Place
2021	Experiences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic amongst Australian Healthcare workers: From stressors to protective factors. Published In The Journal of hospital infection
2021	How should we conduct pandemic vaccination? Published In Vaccine
2021	Priority allocation of pandemic influenza vaccines in Australia ¿ Recommendations of 3 community juries Published In Vaccine
2021	Public health practitioner perspectives on dealing with measles outbreaks if high anti-vaccination sentiment is present Published In BMC Public Health
2021	Representations of free-living and unrestrained dogs as an emerging public health issue in australian newspapers Published In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2021	Responsibility-sharing for pets in disasters: lessons for One Health promotion arising from disaster management challenges. Published In Health promotion international
2021	Should Digital Contact Tracing Technologies be used to Control COVID-19? Perspectives from an Australian Public Deliberation Published In Health Care Analysis
2021	Terminology Change for Small Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer As a Response to Overtreatment: Results from Three Australian Community Juries Published In Thyroid
2021	Women¿s Experiences of and Perspectives on Transvaginal Mesh Surgery for Stress Urine Incontinency and Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Qualitative Systematic Review Published In Patient
2021	¿One minute it's an airborne virus, then it's a droplet virus, and then it's like nobody really knows¿¿: Experiences of pandemic PPE amongst Australian healthcare workers Published In Infection, Disease and Health
2020	Australian and New Zealand Veterinary Students¿ Ranking of Issues in Aquatic Animal Welfare and Ethics Published In Anthrozoos
2020	Changes in public preferences for technologically enhanced surveillance following the COVID-19 pandemic: A discrete choice experiment Published In BMJ Open
2020	Citizens' juries give verdict on whether private practice veterinarians should attend unvaccinated Hendra virus suspect horses Published In Australian Veterinary Journal
2020	Community perspectives on the benefits and risks of technologically enhanced communicable disease surveillance systems: A report on four community juries Published In BMC Medical Ethics
2020	Ending TB in Australia: Organizational challenges for regional tuberculosis programs Published In Health Policy
2020	From more-than-human solidarity to multi-species biographical value: insights from a veterinary school about ethical dilemmas in One Health promotion Published In Sociology of Health and Illness
2020	Insights into culturally appropriate latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening in NSW: perspectives of Indian and Pakistani migrants Published In Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
2020	More philosophical work needed in One Health on ethical frameworks and theory Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2020	One Health and Zoonotic Uncertainty in Singapore and Australia: Examining Different Regimes of Precaution in Outbreak Decision-Making Published In Public Health Ethics
2020	One Health promotion and the politics of dog management in remote, northern Australian communities Published In Scientific Reports
2020	Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories Published In Social Science and Medicine
2020	Perspectives of Vietnamese, Sudanese and South Sudanese immigrants on targeting migrant communities for latent tuberculosis screening and treatment in low-incidence settings: A report on two Victorian community panels Published In Health Expectations
2020	Qualitative Research for One Health: From Methodological Principles to Impactful Applications Published In Frontiers in Veterinary Science
2020	Review of the online one welfare portal: Shared curriculum resources for veterinary undergraduate learning and teaching in animal welfare and ethics Published In Animals
2020	The introduction and demise of full-body computed tomography (CT) scanning in Australia: implications for preventing overdiagnosis Published In Critical Public Health
2020	Tuberculosis in migrants - screening, surveillance and ethics Published In PNEUMONIA
2020	Verdict on the obligations of private veterinarians attending unvaccinated Hendra virus suspect horses afforded by three citizens' juries Published In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2020	What is a dingo? The phenotypic classification of dingoes by aboriginal and torres strait islander residents in northern australia Published In Animals
2019	A healthy, sustainable and safe food system: examining the perceptions and role of the Australian policy actor using a Delphi survey Published In Public Health Nutrition
2019	Australian and New Zealand Veterinary Students' Opinions on Animal Welfare and Ethical Issues Concerning Animal Use within Sport, Recreation, and Display Published In JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION
2019	Australian and New Zealand veterinary students' opinions on animal welfare and ethical issues concerning animal use within sport, recreation, and display Published In Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
2019	Citizens' juries can bring public voices on overdiagnosis into policy making Published In BMJ: British Medical Journal
2019	Communicable Disease Surveillance Ethics in the Age of Big Data and New Technology Published In Asian Bioethics Review
2019	Correction: Factors influencing the behaviour and perceptions of Australian veterinarians towards antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (PLoS ONE (2019) 14:10 (e0223534) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223534) Published In PLoS ONE
2019	Corrigendum: A healthy, sustainable and safe food system: Examining the perceptions and role of the Australian policy actor using a Delphi survey (Public Health Nutrition (2019) (1-10) DOI: 10.1017/S136898001900185X) Published In Public Health Nutrition
2019	Developing and applying a deductive coding framework to assess the goals of Citizen/Community Jury deliberations Published In Health Expectations
2019	Does One Health require a novel ethical framework? Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2019	Factors influencing the behaviour and perceptions of Australian veterinarians towards antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance Published In PLoS One
2019	Guest Editorial Published In Monash Bioethics Review
2019	Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology Published In Socio-Ecological Practice Research
2019	Perspectives of Australian policy-makers on the potential benefits and risks of technologically enhanced communicable disease surveillance - a modified Delphi survey Published In Health Research Policy and Systems
2019	Public attitudes towards novel reproductive technologies: A citizens' jury on mitochondrial donation Published In Human Reproduction
2019	Public preferences for One Health approaches to emerging infectious diseases: A discrete choice experiment Published In Social Science and Medicine
2019	Veterinary students' opinions on their required competence in dealing with welfare and ethics issues pertaining to wildlife Published In Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
2018	Assessing the public acceptability of proposed policy interventions to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in Australia: A report on two community juries Published In Health Expectations
2018	Cures, Tuberculosis, and Deterritorialized Biomedical Narratives Published In Public Culture: an interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies
2018	Defining, estimating, and communicating overdiagnosis in cancer screening Published In Annals of Internal Medicine
2018	Defining, estimating, and communicating overdiagnosis in cancer screening Published In Annals of Internal Medicine
2018	Going viral in PNG – Exploring routes and circumstances of entry of a rabies-infected dog into Papua New Guinea Published In Social Science and Medicine
2018	Importance of welfare and ethics competence regarding animals kept for scientific purposes to veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand Published In Veterinary Sciences
2018	Managing the risk of Hendra virus spillover in Australia using ecological approaches: A report on three community juries Published In PLoS One
2018	Opportunities and challenges to improving antibiotic prescribing practices through a One Health approach: results of a comparative survey of doctors, dentists and veterinarians in Australia Published In BMJ Open
2018	Rabies response, One Health and more-than-human considerations in Indigenous communities in northern Australia Published In Social Science and Medicine
2018	Ranking of production animalwelfare and ethics issues in Australia and New Zealand by veterinary students Published In Veterinary Sciences
2018	Should women aged 70–74 be invited to participate in screening mammography? A report on two Australian community juries Published In BMJ Open
2017	A Delphi Survey and Analysis of Expert Perspectives on One Health in Australia Published In Ecohealth
2017	Companion Animals in Natural Disasters: A Scoping Review of Scholarly Sources Published In Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
2017	Dog-bites, rabies and One Health: Towards improved coordination in research, policy and practice Published In Social Science and Medicine
2017	Eliminating latent tuberculosis in low-burden settings: Are the principal beneficiaries to be disadvantaged groups or the broader population? Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2017	Influencing health policy through public deliberation: Lessons learned from two decades of Citizens'/community juries Published In Social Science and Medicine
2017	Students’ opinions on welfare and ethics issues for companion animals in Australian and New Zealand veterinary schools Published In Australian Veterinary Journal
2017	The importance of animal welfare science and ethics to veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand Published In Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
2017	The use of a virtual online debating platform to facilitate student discussion of potentially polarising topics Published In Animals
2016	A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2016	A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis: response to commentaries Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2016	All care, but whose responsibility? Community juries reason about expert and patient responsibilities in prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer Published In Health
2016	Beyond Biomedicine: Relationships and Care in Tuberculosis Prevention Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2016	CJCheck Stage 1: development and testing of a checklist for reporting community juries – Delphi process and analysis of studies published in 1996–2015 Published In Health Expectations
2016	Career preferences and opinions on animal welfare and ethics: A survey of veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand Published In Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
2016	Culling and the Common Good: Re-evaluating Harms and Benefits under the One Health Paradigm Published In Public Health Ethics
2016	Habitus and responsible dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of ‘dog-shaped’ holes in people’s lives Published In Critical Public Health
2016	Public engagement and community participation in governing urban parks: a case study in changing and implementing a policy addressing off-leash dogs Published In Critical Public Health
2016	The cat’s cradle of responsibility: assigning and taking responsibility for companion animals in natural disasters Published In Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
2015	Citizens, Consumers and Animals: What Role do Experts Assign to Public Values in Establishing Animal Welfare Standards? Published In Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
2015	Implementing a One Health approach to emerging infectious disease: Reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions Published In BMC Public Health
2015	Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2015	Policies on pets for healthy cities: a conceptual framework Published In Health Promotion International
2015	Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity Published In Social Science and Medicine
2015	Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: An overview of key concepts Published In International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2015	The Political and Ethical Challenge of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2015	The challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition Published In BMJ: British Medical Journal
2015	The first shared online curriculum resources for veterinary undergraduate learning and teaching in animal welfare and ethics in Australia and New Zealand Published In Animals
2015	Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research Published In Social Science and Medicine
2015	“What should happen before asymptomatic men decide whether or not to have a PSA test?” A report on three community juries Published In Medical Journal of Australia
2014	Don’t be scared, be angry: The politics and ethics of Ebola Published In Medical Journal of Australia
2014	Equity under the knife: Justice and evidence in surgery Published In Bioethics
2014	Faith-based perspectives on the use of chimeric organisms for medical research. Published In Transgenic Research
2014	How Western national interest drives Ebola drug development Published In The Conversation
2014	Toward stronger theory in critical public health: Insights from debates surrounding posthumanism Published In Critical Public Health
2013	Bioethics and Nonhuman Animals Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2013	Evaluating animal models: Some taxonomic worries Published In The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: a forum for bioethics and philosophy of medicine
2013	Hendra in the news: Public policy meets public morality in times of zoonotic uncertainty Published In Social Science and Medicine
2013	It’s a dog’s life when man’s best friend becomes his fattest Published In The Conversation
2013	Of mice and men: role of mice in biomedical research questioned Published In The Conversation
2013	Public Health Ethics and a Status for Pets as Person-Things: Revisiting the Place of Animals in Urbanized Societies Published In Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
2013	What to Think of Canine Obesity? Emerging Challenges to Our Understanding of Human-Animal Health Relationships Published In Social Epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy
2013	‘It was not just a walking experience’: reflections on the role of care in dog-walking Published In Health Promotion International
2012	An investigation of the association between socio-demographic factors, dog-exercise requirements, and the amount of walking dogs receive Published In Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research
2012	Animals-as-Patients: Improving the Practice of Animal Experimentation Published In Between the Species: an online journal for the study of philosophy and animals
2012	Erratum to: Correction to "Portrayals of Canine Obesity in English-Language Newspapers and in Leading Veterinary Journals, 2000-2009: Implications for Animal Welfare Organizations and Veterinarians as Public Educators" ((2011), 14, 4 (286-303)) Published In Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
2012	Hemoglobin a1c as a diagnostic tool: Public health implications from an actor-network perspective Published In American Journal of Public Health
2012	Narrative medicine: Learning through stories Published In The Veterinary Record
2012	Owning the problem: Media portrayals of overweight dogs and the shared determinants of the health of human and companion animal populations Published In Anthrozoos: a multidisciplinary journal of the interactions of people and animals
2012	Testing relationships: Ethical arguments for screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus with HbA1C Published In Journal of Medical Ethics
2012	Uncanny Animals: Thinking Differently About Ethics and the Animal-Human Relationship Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2011	Portrayals of canine obesity in English-language newspapers and in leading veterinary journals, 2000-2009: Implications for animal welfare organizations and veterinarians as public educators Published In Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
2011	Understanding corporate responsibility: Culture and complicity Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2011	When Species Meet Published In HEALTH
2010	Cutting a Bone to Heal a Ligament: Idealized Animals and Orthopaedics Published In Medicine Studies: an international journal for history, philosophy, and ethics of medicine and allied sciences
2009	Fractured hips: surgical authority, futility and innovation in nineteenth century medicine Published In Endeavour
2009	Lost in Translation: Gaps in Reasoning for Primate Stroke Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2009	Negotiating Value: Comparing Human and Animal Fracture Care in Industrial Societies Published In Science, Technology and Human Values
2009	Picturing the Pain of Animal Others: Rationalising Form, Function and Suffering in Veterinary Orthopaedics Published In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2009	Picturing the pain of animal others: Rationalising form, function and suffering in veterinary orthopaedics Published In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2009	The rise of the medical research council and the politics of control Published In Metascience
2009	Underdetermined Interests: Scientific ‘Goods’ and Animal Welfare Published In The American Journal of Bioethics
2008	Canines, Consanguinity, and One-Medicine: All the Qualities of a Dog except Loyalty Published In Health and History
2006	Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries Published In Health and History

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Deliberative methods Published In SAGE Research Methods Foundations Publisher London
2019	The ethics of One Health Published In One Planet, One Health Publisher Sydney, Australia
2018	Evaluating the Contributions of one health initiatives to social sustainability Published In Integrated approaches to health A handbook for the evaluation of One Health Publisher The Netherlands
2016	Dying a Natural Death: Ethics and Political Activism for Endemic Infectious Disease Published In Endemic Essays in Contagion Theory Publisher United Kingdom
2016	Toward “One Health” Promotion Published In A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health Publisher United States
2015	Introduction Published In Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on non-human futures Publisher Sydney, Australia

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	2 What¿s in a name? Defining and labelling disease and its role in reducing overdiagnosis and overtreatment Published In BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
2018	12¿The introduction and demise of full body computed tomography (CT) scanning in australia: implications for preventing overdiagnosis

Editor Of

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- Life in the Anthropocene. Australia. 2015

Investigator On

Year	Title
2022 - 2025	Preparing Australia for the next pandemic: Managing controversy; promoting trust Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Ideas Grant
2020 - 2023	The algorithm will see you now: ethical, legal and social implications of adopting machine learning systems for diagnosis and screening Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Ideas Grant
2020 - 2022	Narratives of Recovery - Practices supporting community mental health and well being post bush fires and COVID 19 Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: COVID-19 Mental Health Research Grant
2017 - 2020	Developing evidence-based strategies for addressing childhood vaccination rejection Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2015 - 2018	Can One Health strategies be more effectively implemented through prior identification of public values? Awarded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Funding Scheme: Project Grant
	Preventing Mitochondrial Disease using Genomics - Social, legal and ethical aspects Awarded by: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Funding Scheme: Genomics Health Futures Mission Projects Grant
	TB elimination: a qualitative investigation of the perspectives of South Asian migrant communities in the Illawarra. Awarded by: Australian Respiratory Council Funding Scheme: Harry Windsor Grant

Other Research Activities

National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence “Protecting the Public from Emerging Infectious Diseases. $2.5 million Associate Investigator 2016 - 2022
Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne Heath, Community Panels on Targeted Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection; $60,000 Lead Investigator 2019 - 2020
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging, Citizens’ juries as an extension of the initial pandemic influenza vaccination target groups (TP707690), $123,000 Lead Investigator 2018 - 2020
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Social justice and pet ownership: A qualitative inquiry to improve population health and advance public health ethics. $342,756 CAD. Co-Investigator 2014 - 2017
Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. Nationally shared curriculum resources for veterinary undergraduate learning in animal welfare and ethics. $378,000 AUD. Chief Investigator C 2014 - 2016
National Health and Medical Research Council: Evaluating cancer screening: context, evidence, values and ethics; $620,120 AUD. CI E 2012 - 2016
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Novel insights into how health is generated in urban settings: A ‘natural experiment’ study of off-leash areas, Institute of Population and Public Health Population Health Intervention Research Strategic Competition, $197,783, CAD. Co-Investigator 2011 - 2014

Potential Supervision Topics

Exploring perceptions as to the role and value of environmental health workers (EHWs) in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
The social and cultural dimensions of antimicrobial stewardship at the point of care

Teaching Activities

Ecology, Public Health and the Environment (Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator and Lecturer 2015 - 2017
Science and Ethics (Faculty of Science, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator and Lecturer 2012 - 2014
Science and Society (Faculty of Science, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator and Lecturer 2012 - 2014
Bioethics (Faculty of Science, University of Sydney) Course Coodinator 2011 - 2014

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology)	Does Uncertainty Tolerance contribute to Overprescribing? Informing Stewardship for Healthcare Staff in Aged-Care Settings	Singh, Saniya
Doctor of Philosophy	People, Pets and Communities in Natural Disasters: A Case for One Health Promotion	Travers, Cheryl
Doctor of Philosophy	A critical analysis of transvaginal mesh procedures in Australia	Motamedi, Mina

Reviewer Of

NHMRC External project grant reviewer (Research Proposal) 2015 - 2018

Professional Service Activities

National Health and Medical Research Council Member of Mitochondial Donation Expert Working Committee 2019 - 2020

Education And Training

Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, School of History and Philosophy in Science 2005 - 2009
Graduate Diploma of Social Science in Science and Technology Studies, University of Sydney, Faculty of Science 2004 - 2005
B.V.S., University of Sydney, The Faculty of Veterinary Science 1989 - 1993
University of Calgary, Department of Community Health Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Promotion at the Human Animal Interface 2010 - 2012

Credentials

Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, 1997

Teaching Overview

Although my current role is research intensive, I have extensive experience in university teaching and learning including course development, course coordination and lecturing (both as principal and guest lecturer). Courses taught while I was working at the University of Sydney include:

PUBH 5423 Ecology, Public Health and the Environment: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney. An elective course for Masters of Public Health students

HPSC 3024 Science & Ethics: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. The University of Sydney. A final year course of Undergraduate science students

HSPC 3022 Science and Society: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney. A core Sociology of Science subject for final year students majoring in History and Philosophy of Science in the Bachelor of Science Degree.

HPSC 1000/ 1900 Bioethics: Course Co-ordinator/ Lecturer. Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney. A foundational lecture-based course (350+ students) in Bioethics for Undergraduates.

In 2014 I was a key member of the team awarded funding by the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) in 2014 to develop nationally shared resources for undergraduate learning in animal welfare and ethics. http://onewelfare.cve.edu.au/

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4279-3443 (confirmed)

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