I am an adjunct and researcher with the College of Medicine and Dentistry based in Townsville. I have experience in service development in rural, remote and regional Australia as a researcher, practitioner, and senior manager in government. I am interested in the interactions between health systems, organisations, and communities to improve people's health. I wrote a text book "Working with communities" in 2008 and reprinted in 2015. In 2013-14 I was a volunteer with Australian Volunteers for International Development in Nepal in the Ministry of Health and Population and again remotely in 2021 in Nepal with a small disability organsiation. With the disability organisation volunteering is centred around advocating for a rights-based disability inclusive response to Covid-19 (and other pandemics). My research interests include being part of a large NHMRC team co-led by Catrina Felton-Bush and Sarah Larkins Women's Action for Mums and Bubs, and LEAP co-led by Veronica Matthews and Sarah Larkins. I am also interested in sustainable community participation in rural general practice and will be updating my PhD research in 2022.

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing (4504)

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Journal Articles

• Redman-Maclaren M, Turner N, Taylor J, Laycock A, Vine K, Thompson Q, Larkins S, Carlisle K, Thompson S, Bailie R and Matthews V (2021) Respect is central: a critical review of implementation frameworks for continuous quality improvement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care services. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, Article: 630611, DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2021.630611.
• Edelman A, Taylor J, Ovseiko P and Topp S (2019) “‘Academic’ is a dirty word”: intended impact pathways of an emerging academic health centre in tropical regional Australia. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 34 (1), pp. e661-e678, DOI:10.1002/hpm.2681.
• Larkins S, Carlisle K, Turner N, Taylor J, Copley K, Cooney S, Wright R, Matthews V, Thompson S and Bailie R (2019) 'At the grass roots level it's about sitting down and talking': exploring quality improvement through case studies with high-improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare services. BMJ Open, 9 (5), Article: e027568, DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027568.
• Turner N, Taylor J, Larkins S, Carlisle K, Thompson S, Carter M, Redman-MacLaren M and Bailie R (2019) Conceptualizing the association between community participation and CQI in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PHC services. Qualitative Health Research, 29 (13), pp. 1904-1915, DOI:10.1177/1049732319843107.
• Carlisle K, Farmer J, Taylor J, Larkins S and Evans R (2018) Evaluating community participation: a comparison of participatory approaches in the planning and implementation of new primary health-care services in northern Australia. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 33 (3), pp. 704-722, DOI:10.1002/hpm.2523.
• Edelman A, Taylor J, Ovseiko P and Topp S (2018) The role of academic health centres in improving health equity: a systematic review. Journal Of Health Organization And Management, 32 (2), pp. 279-297, DOI:10.1108/JHOM-09-2017-0255.
• Farmer J, Carlisle K, Dickson-Swift V, Teasdale S, Kenny A, Taylor J, Croker F, Marini K and Gussy M (2018) Applying social innovation theory to examine how community co-designed health services develop: using a case study approach and mixed methods. BMC Health Services Research, 18, Article: 68, DOI:10.1186/s12913-018-2852-0.
• Taylor J, Carlisle K, Farmer J, Larkins S, Dickson-Swift V and Kenny A (2018) Implementation of oral health initiatives by Australian rural communities: factors for success. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26 (1), pp. e102-e110, DOI:10.1111/hsc.12483.
• Farmer J, Taylor J, Stewart E and Kenny A (2017) Citizen participation in health services co-production: a roadmap for navigating participation types and outcomes. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 23 (6), pp. 509-515, DOI:10.1071/PY16133.
• Wakerman J, Bourke L, Humphreys J and Taylor J (2017) Is remote health different to rural health? Rural and Remote Health, 17 (2), Article: 3832, DOI:10.22605/RRH3832.
• Preston R, Larkins S, Taylor J and Judd J (2016) Building blocks for social accountability: a conceptual framework to guide medical schools. BMC Medical Education, 16, Article: 227, pp. 1-10, DOI:10.1186/s12909-016-0741-y.
• Preston R, Larkins S, Taylor J and Judd J (2016) From personal to global: understandings of social accountability from stakeholders at four medical schools. Medical Teacher, 38 (10), pp. 987-994, DOI:10.3109/0142159X.2015.1114596.

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Completed

• The role of academic health centres in improving population health: a multiple-case study in Australia and England (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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