Tammy Allen ~ Lecturer

Tammy Allen (BScHP, MPHTM) is a public health lecturer and practitioner with 18 years experience working in the field of health promotion and public health in both communicable and non-communicable disease prevention.

Prior to commencing as a lecturer in 2011, Tammy coordinated injury prevention initiatives in rural Western Australia, Western Samoa and north Queensland. She also led state wide approaches to dengue fever prevention in Queensland and was the health promotion advisor to one of the biggest dengue fever outbreaks in Queensland 2008-2009. 

Teaching: Tammy has extensive post graduate and undergraduate teaching experience across colleges and disciplines in areas such as public health project management, public health evaluation, risk communication, community engagement and oral health promotion.

Consultancies: Tammy has developed strong links with the World Health Organisation in improving organisational response outcomes in the event of a public health emergency. She has been integral in the development of key documents considered best practice resources in responding to public health emergencies. The following are links to the documents she has contributed to, and hence been acknowledged in:

World Health Organisation, Handbook for Developing a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, Part C: Training and Exercises:  https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/311545/9789241515139-eng.pdf?sequence=1

World Health Organisation, Handbook for Developing a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Part A: Policies, Plans and Procedures : https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/277191/9789241515122-eng.pdf?sequence=1

World Health Organisation (2015) Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre : https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/196135/9789241565134_eng.pdf?sequence=1

Asia-Europe Foundation (2016) How Can We Be Better Prepared for the Next Global Health Threat? Planning and Implementing Emergency Risk Communication. https://www.asef.org/images/docs/Workshop%20Report%20FINAL%20Hi_resolution.pdf

 

 

Teaching

• TM5547: Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5569: Health Promotion Strategies and Methods (Level 5; CNS)

Interests

Research

• Emergency Risk Communication
• Community engagement
• Oral Health Promotion
• Mosquito Borne Disease Prevention
• Public Health Emergencies PHEOCS

Experience

• 2007 to 2012 - Senior Health Promotion Advisor, Tropical Regional Services (Cairns)
• 2005 to 2007 - Youth Health Development, South Metro Public Health (Perth, Western Australia)
• 2004 - Education, Information and Communication Program, Samoa Lifeline (Western Samoa)
• 2003 to 2004 - Research Officer, University of Western Australia (Perth, Western Australia)
• 2002 to 2003 - Health Promotion Officer - Injury Prevention, Wheatbelt Public Health Unit (Northam, Western Australia)

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public Health (9204)

Awards

• 2018 - Best Paper 2017 - Journal of Tropical Medicine and Health : Impact of the Lymphatic Filariasis Control Program towards elimination of filariasis in Vanuatu: 1997-2006.

Memberships

• 2015 to 2019 - WHO PHEOC Plans and Procedures Working Group
• 2015 to 2019 - WHO EOC-Net
• 2016 to 2017 - Australian Health Promotion Association
• 2015 to 2017 - Public Health Association of Australia, Oral Health Working Group

Other

• 2018 - Teaching Consultancy: Deadly Sex Project Planning Workshop - ($800)
• 2016 - Teaching Consultancy: Health Promotion 5 Day Short Course ($3042)
• 2015 - World Health Organisation - Co-Chief Investigator: Summary Report and Glossary ($10000); Investigator: Systematic Review of Public Health Emergency
• 2014 - Australasian Tropical Health Conference, Cairns. Presentation : Using a disaster management system to respond to public health emergencies

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Journal Articles

• Allen T, Taleo F, Graves P, Wood P, Taleo G, Baker M, Bradley M and Ichimori K (2017) Impact of the Lymphatic Filariasis Control Program towards elimination of filariasis in Vanuatu, 1997-2006. Tropical Medicine and Health, 45 (8). pp. 1-11

Other research outputs

• Allen T, Topp S and Crouch A (2019) Mosquito-borne disease and community engagement in high-income countries: scoping review. [Presented at Global Health Security 2019]. 18-20 June 2019, Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Allen T, Furler D, Drury L, Pinese C and Singh H (2016) Barriers and enablers to conducting health promotion in private dental practice. [Presented at the 23rd National Conference of the Australian Health Promotion Association]. 19-22 June 2016, Perth, WA, Australia
• Spencer R, Allen T, Sellars D, Ryan B, Banner G, Aimers B, Leggat P, Franklin R, Zhang H, Du P, Chen T, Liu Y, Yang R, Chen J, Li Q, Ni D, Sun H, Niu Y, Liao K, Wu H, Wang C, Wang Y, Efstathiou P, Mandi P, Agrafa I, Karyoti V, Andreou S, Lipskiy N, Tuten D, Tyson J, Burkholder J, Rzeszotarski P, Abernathy R, Li J, Krishnamurthy R, Sergienko E, Cox P, Xu Z, Markoff J and Chungong S (2015) Summary report of systematic reviews for public health emergency operations centres. Plans and procedures; communication technology and infrastructure; minimum datasets and standards; training and exercises. [monograph]

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