Tammy Allen has been working in the public health field for 20 years. Her career began as a practitioner coordinating community based projects in a range of culturally and geographically diverse settings including rural injury prevention in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, youth health development in low socio-economic communities in Perth, suicide prevention in Western Samoa and dengue fever prevention in north Queensland.

Over the last decade Tammy has transferred her practitioner skills into an academic environment where she teaches the next generation of public health practitioners a wide range of knowledge and skills from risk communication and community engagement; to public health project planning and evaluation; and public health emergency operation center planning.

Since 2015, Tammy has worked closely with the World Health Organisation, Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Network in strengthening country level responses to public health emergencies such as COVID-19. She is a global leader in EOC research, having helped develop the evidence base underpinning the best practice guidelines and handbooks for establishing public health emergency operations centres: 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

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=1T

Since late 2020, Tammy has been leading the research underpinning the revision of the WHO best practice Framework through exploring the barriers, enablers and challenges of using a PHEOC to respond to PHEs.

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching

• HS2406: Health Promotion in Dentistry (Level 2; CNS)
• TM5525: Communicable Disease Control (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5547: Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation (Level 5; CNS)
• TM5569: Health Promotion Strategies and Methods (Level 5; CNS)

Interests

Research

• Oral Health Promotion
• Public Health Emergency Operation Centres

Experience

• 2007 to 2012 - Senior Health Promotion Advisor/Injury Prevention Network Coordinator, Tropical Regional Services (Cairns)
• 2005 to 2007 - Youth Health Development Officer, South Metro Public Health (Perth, Western Australia)
• 2004 - Education, Information and Communication Program Officer, 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)
• 2001 to 2002 - Research Assistant, Curtin University

Research Disciplines

• Public health (4206)
• Health services and systems (4203)

Awards

• 2020 JCU Citation Award : Connecting oral health promotion theory to practice: enhancing dentistry student learning through authentic, real-world experience and collaborative, inspirational teaching.
• 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

• 2018 - Sustainable Development Goals and Citizen Science & Maximisation Group
• 2017 - WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases
• 2014 to 2021 - WHO EOC-Network Member, WHO temporary advisor
• 2015 to 2019 - Public Health Association of Australia, Oral Health Working Group; Queensland Representative (2016&2017)
• 2016 to 2017 - Australian Health Promotion Association Member

Other

• 2021: Research Consultancy - Chief Investigator World Health Organisation, Cross sectional survey exploring key shortcomings and opportunities to improve the WHO Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre – Tammy Allen ($13,000)
• 2020: Research Consultancy - Chief Investigator World Health Organisation, Contribution, enablers and challenges of using an Emergency Operation Center in Public Health Emergency Management: Scoping Review ($13,000)
• 2019 - Poster Presentation - EOC Research Gaps and Opportunities @ EOC-Network Annual General Meeting
• 2018 - Teaching Consultancy: Deadly Sex Project Planning Workshop
• 2016 - Teaching Consultancy: Health Promotion 5 Day Short Course
• 2015 - Co-Chief Investigator: WHO Summary Report and Glossary. Contract funding $9000 US; TA $A1000
• 2014 - Co-Investigator: WHO Systematic Review of Public Health Emergency Center Policy, Plans and Procedures. Contract funding $US10,000; TA $A1279
• 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, Crouch A and Topp S (in press) Community participation and empowerment approaches to Aedes mosquito management in high-income countries: a scoping review. Health Promotion International, , DOI:10.1093/heapro/daaa049.
• Stevenson L, Allen T, Mendez D, Sellars D and Gould G (in press) Is open defaecation in outdoor recreation and camping areas a public health issue in Australia? A literature review. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, , DOI:10.1002/hpja.300.
• 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, DOI:10.1186/s41182-017-0047-8.

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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