Tammy Allen has 20 years experience in the public health field. For the first decade of her public health career she was as a practitioner coordinating community based public health programs in culturally and geographically diverse settings including the Wheatbelt region of western Australia, the Pacific region (Western Samoa) and far north Queensland.

SInce 2011, Tammy has been working at James Cook University as a teaching/resarch academic teaching the next generation of public health practitioners topics from risk communication and community engagement; to public health project planning and evaluation; and public health emergency operation center planning.

Tammy's research is focused on two key areas - public health emergency operation centers and sustainable, empowering approaches to mosquito borne disease management.

1) Strengthening emergency operation centre responses to public health emergencies

Tammy has been an advisor and consultant to the World Health Organisation's Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET) Geneva since 2015. This work is focused on strengthening country level responses to public health emergencies such as COVID-19. She is a global EOC research leader, contributing to the research 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 ;

More recently in 2021, Tammy is leading the research underpinning the revision of the WHO Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, with a particular focus on exploring the barriers, enablers and challenges of using a PHEOC to respond to PHEs including COVID-19.

 2) Aedes mosquito management and community engagement

Tammy is also completing a PhD project focusing on understanding the factors influencing community engagement and empowering approaches in mosquito management in high income countries. Tammy is passionate about promoting bottom up approaches to health outcomes, particularly in the context of mosquito borne diseases having previously worked in this field in north Queensland.

 

 

 

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

• Mosquito borne disease, community engagement
• Public Health Emergency Operation Centres

Research Disciplines

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

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

• 2017 to 2021 - WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases
• 2014 to 2021 - WHO EOC-Network Member, WHO advisor/consultant
• 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
• 2020: Research Consultancy - Chief Investigator World Health Organisation, Contribution, enablers and challenges of using an Emergency Operation Center in Public Health Emergency
• 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.
• 2014 - Co-Investigator: WHO Systematic Review of Public Health Emergency Center Policy, Plans and Procedures. Contract funding
• 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 (2021) Community participation and empowerment approaches to Aedes mosquito management in high-income countries: a scoping review. Health Promotion International, 36 (2), pp. 505-523, DOI:10.1093/heapro/daaa049.
• Stevenson L, Allen T, Mendez D, Sellars D and Gould G (2020) Is open defaecation in outdoor recreation and camping areas a public health issue in Australia? A literature review. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 31 (3), pp. 525-532, 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
• Markoff J, Burkholder J, Mandi P, Agrafa I, Karyoti V, Efstathiou P, Andreou S, Lipskiy N, Tuten D, Tyson J, Rzeszotarski P, Abernathy R, Li J, Krishnamurthy R, Sergienko E, Xu Z, Chungong S, Leggat P, Wang Y, Cox P, Du P, Allen T, Sellars D, Ryan B, Banner G, Aimers B, Zhang H, Wang C, Spencer R, Chen T, Liu Y, Yang R, Chen J, Li Q, Ni D, Sun H, Niu Y, Liao K, Wu H and Franklin R (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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