Professor Annette Braunack-Mayer

Biography/ Background

My disciplinary area is bioethics. My research reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of my teaching background (in applied ethics and qualitative research methods) and my position for many years as an ethicist in a medical school.  I have sought to apply ethical theory and the methods of the social sciences together to public health and medicine, and focused on addressing problems of relevance to practitioners and academics also working in applied contexts.  I have applied this approach to the problem of the relevance of moral philosophy to ‘everyday’ professional practice and to lay interpretations of issues of public health importance (including infectious disease policy), the place of privacy and confidentiality in medicine and public health in the 21st century, the role of ethics in the education of medical students, and  to the relationship between ethics and health technology assessment. 

 

 

Qualifications

1999 Doctor of Philosophy (Bioethics) University of Adelaide

1984 Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) University of Adelaide

 

 

Research Funding

Category 1 grants:

2011-2012 
Braunack-Mayer AJ, Street, JM, Reynolds C, Moore V, Warin M, Carter D, Moss J, Merlin T. (AIs: Broderick D, Willis C, Gordon J, Tooher R, Larg A) Steward or nanny state: Consulting the public about the use of regulations and laws to address childhood obesity. Australian National Preventive Health Agency Research Grants Program 2011-12.   ($288,381)

2010-2012   
Braunack-Mayer AJ, O'Keefe MF, Skinner R, McCaffery KJ, Burgess T, Marshall HS, Watson M. Optimising intersectoral collaboration between the health and education sectors. ARC Linkage Grant LP100200007. (2010: $63,650; 2011: $127,940; 2012: $64,290.  Total partner contribution: $152,600)

2009-2010   
Marshall H, Braunack-Mayer A, Ryan P, Street J. Evaluation of community knowledge, acceptance of and participation in strategies to prevent spread of H1N1. NHMRC Research on H1N1 Influenza 09 to inform public policy. ($185,922)

2009-2013   
Jamrozik K, Hiller JE, Braunack-Mayer A, Gericke C, Ryan P, Karnon J, Nasir R, Beilby J. Health care in the round: building capacity for integrated decision-making for improving health services. NHMRC Capacity Building Grant. 565501 ($2,094,714)

2009-2011   
Hiller JE, Elshaug AG, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Moss JR, Wale J, Buchan H. Changing policy and practice in health care. NHMRC Project Grant 565327. $860,750 (Year 1 $250,250; Year 2: $365,250; Year 3: $245,250). Associate Investigators: Littlejohns P, Wells R, Phillips P, Goss A, Norman R, Southcott A, Karnon J, Merlin T, de Lacey S, Street J.

2008       
Braunack-Mayer AJ, Marshall HS, O’Keefe M. Human Papillomavirus immunisation: Why are adolescent girls opting out? University of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences - Small Grants Scheme; $12,000.

2008-2010   
Gold MS, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Ryan P, Gericke CA, McNeil JJ, Freemantle CJ, Thomson CJ, Roughead EE, Taylor LK, Elliott E, Filby DR, Buttery JP.  Can and should we link data at a national level? Vaccine safety surveillance: A case study.  ARC Linkage Project. LP0882394 (2008: $165,154; 2009: $146,254; 2010: $142,824. Total partner contribution: $411,000)

2008-2010   
Bi P, Ryan P, Weinstein P,  Pisaniello DL, Parton KA, Moss JR, Braunack-Mayer AJ. Extreme weather and population health in Australia: risk assessment, prediction of health impacts and disease burden, and adaptive strategy exploration. ARC Discovery Project. DP0880933 (2008: $70,000; 2009: $56,899; 2010: $62,586)

2008      
Rogers WA, de Lacey S, Braunack-Mayer A (AI), Richards B (AI). Donations after cardiac death: ethical issues encountered by practitioners. Flinders University Faculty of Health Sciences Partnership Research Grants 2008; $50,000.

2007-2008   
Braunack-Mayer AJ, Rogers WA, Moss JR, Hiller JE, Bi P, Salter AB, Givney RC, van Eyk H.  Citizens’ juries: enabling effective influenza pandemic policy through engagement with the community (FluViews). ARC Linkage Project. LP0775341 (2007- $32,000; 2008 - $52,000)

2007-2009   
De Lacey SL, Rogers WA, Naffine NM, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Richards BJ, Ballantyne AJ. Consent in the void: moral, legal and community values in decisions before birth and after death. ARC Discovery Project. DP0773141 (2007- $30,000; 2008 - $35,000; 2009 - $40,000)

Publications

Selby Susan, Braunack-Mayer Annette, Jones Alison, Clark Sheila, Moulding Nicole, Beilby Justin.  2011. Special People? An exploratory study into re-entering missionaries’ identity and resilience.  Journal of Religion and Health. 2011; 50:1007-1023.  DOI 10.1007/s10943-010-9337-8

de Lacey Sheryl, Rogers Wendy, Braunack-Mayer Annette, Avery Jodie. Perceptions of embryo status and embryo use in an Australian community.  Reproductive BioMedicine Online. Accepted 02 October 2011.

#Xafis V, Thomson C, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Duszynski KM, Gold MS. 2011. Legal impediments to data linkage. Journal of Law and Medicine 2011; 19: 300-315.

#Carter D, Braunack-Mayer A. 2011. The Appeal to Nature Implicit in Certain Restrictions on Public Funding for Assisted Reproductive Technology.  Bioethics 2011; 25: 463–471.

Leask J, Braunack-Mayer A, Kerridge I. 2011. Consent and public engagement in an era or expanded childhood immunization. Ethical Issues in immunization: Special issue for Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2011;  47: 603–607.

Saarni Samuli I, Braunack-Mayer Annette, Hofmann Bjorn, van der Wilt Gert Jan.  2011. Different methods for ethical analysis in health technology assessment: An empirical study.  International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2011; 27(4): 305–312.

Marshall H, Tooher R, Collins J, Mensah F, Braunack-Mayer A, Street J, Ryan P. 2011. Awareness, anxiety, compliance: Community perceptions and response to the threat and reality of an influenza pandemic. American Journal of Infection Control. In Press

#Docter SP, Street J, Braunack-Mayer AJ, van der Wilt G-J. 2011. Public perceptions of pandemic influenza resource allocation: A deliberative forum using Grid/Group analysis. Journal of Public Health Policy 2011; advance online publication 13 January 2011; doi: 10.1057/jphp.2010.49.

Berry Jesia G, Ryan Philip, Braunack-Mayer Annette J, Duszynski Katherine M, Xafis Vicki, Gold Michael S. 2011. Protocol for a randomised controlled trial to compare opt-in and opt-out parental consent for childhood vaccine safety surveillance using data linkage. Trials 2011; 12:1.  

# Scarborough Jane, Eliott Jaklin, Braunack-Mayer Annette. 2011. General practitioners’ participation in prescribing Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST): An exploratory study using qualitative methods. Australian Family Physician 40: 241-245.

Carter D, Braunack-Mayer A. 2010. Introduction: On the borders. Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World 2010; 13:1-10. C

Braunack-Mayer Annette J, Street Jackie M, Rogers Wendy A, Givney Rodney, Moss John R, Hiller Janet E, FluViews Team. 2010. Including the public in pandemic planning: A deliberative approach. BMC Public Health 2010:10;501. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-501 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/.

Street JM, Rogers WA, Israel M, Braunack-Mayer, A. 2010. Credit where credit is due? Regulation, research integrity and the attribution of authorship in the health sciences. Social Science and Medicine. Accepted, January 7, 2010.

Oprea L, Braunack-Mayer A, Rogers W. 2010. An Ethical Justification for the Chronic Care Model (CCM).  Health Expectations.  Accepted September 22, 2009. B

Selby Susan, Braunack-Mayer Annette, Moulding Nicole, Jones Alison, Clark Sheila, Beilby Justin. 2010. Special People? An exploratory study into re-entering missionaries’ identity and resilience. Journal of Religion and Health. Published online, February 24, 2010. DOI 10.1007/s10943-010-9337-8

Braunack-Mayer Annette. 2010. Teaching Ethics with ‘Cholera and Nothing More’. Public Health Ethics 2010;3(1): 78–79.

Selby Susan, Braunack-Mayer Annette, Moulding Nicole, Jones Alison, Clark Sheila, Beilby Justin. 2009. Resilience in re-entering missionaries: why do some do well? Mental Health, Religion & Culture 2009;12:701-720.  

Carey G, Braunack-Mayer A, Barraket J. 2009. Spaces of care in the third sector: Understanding the effects of professionalisation. health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicin 2009;.13:629-646.

Carey G, Braunack-Mayer A. 2009. Exploring the effects of government funding on community-based organisations: 'Top down' or 'bottom-up' approaches to health promotion? Global Health Promotion 2009;16: 45–52.

Rogers W, Street J, Braunack-Mayer A, Hiller J. 2009. Pandemic influenza communication: views from a deliberative forum. Health Expectations 2009; 12:331-342.

Braunack-Mayer AJ, Avery JC. 2009. Before the consultation: why people do (or do not) go the doctor.  British Journal of General Practice 2009;59(564):478-9.

Selby S, Moulding N, Clark S, Jones A, Braunack-Mayer A, Beilby J. 2009. Back home: a qualitative study exploring re-entering cross-cultural missionary aid workers’ loss and grief. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 2009;59:19-38.

Oprea L, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Gericke CA. 2009. Ethical issues in funding research and development of drugs for neglected tropical diseases. Journal of Medical Ethics  2009;35:310–314.

Anikeeva O, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Rogers WA. 2009. Ethics and practice in relation to health care worker influenza immunisation rates. American Journal of Public Health 2009;99:24-29.

Smith JA, Braunack-Mayer A, Wittert G, Warin M. 2008. Qualities men value when communicating with GPs: Implications for primary care settings. Medical Journal of Australia 2008; 189:618-621.

Lee C, Rogers W, Braunack-Mayer A. 2008. Social justice and pandemic influenza planning: the role of communication strategies. Public Health Ethics 2008; 1:223-234.

Braunack-Mayer AJ, Louise J. 2008. The ethics of community empowerment: tensions in health promotion theory and practice. Promotion & Education 2008; 15: 5-8.

Anikeeva O, Braunack-Mayer A, Street J. 2008. How will Australian general practitioners respond to an influenza pandemic? A qualitative study of ethical values. Med J Aust 2008; 189(3):148-50

Street J, Braunack-Mayer AJ,  Hiller J, Ashcroft R, Facey K. 2008. Virtual Community Consultation? Using the literature and weblogs to link community perspectives and health technology assessment. Health Expectations 2008; 11(2):189-200.

Smith JA, Braunack-Mayer A, Wittert G, Warin M.  2008. “It’s sort of like being a detective”: Understanding how Australian men self-monitor their health prior to seeking help.  BMC Health Services Research 2008; 8:56 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8/56

Smith JA, Braunack-Mayer A, Wittert G, Warin M. 2007. “I’ve been independent for so damn long!”: Independence, masculinity and aging in a help seeking context. Journal of Aging Studies 2007; 21(4): 325-335.

Avery JC, Braunack-Mayer AJ. 2007. The information needs of women diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome - Implications for treatment and health outcomes. BMC Women’s Health 2007;7:9. (20 Jun 2007) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6874/7/9

Braunack-Mayer AJ. 2006. What makes a screening program ethical? Public Health Bulletin 2006; Edition 5:7-9.

Palmer N, Braunack-Mayer A, Rogers W, Provis C, Cullity G. 2006. Conflicts of interest in Divisions of General Practice. Journal of Medical Ethics 2006;32:715-717.

Braunack-Mayer AJ. 2006. Ethics and Health Technology Assessment: Handmaiden and/or Critic? International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2006; 22: 307-312.

Mulligan E, Rogers W, Braunack-Mayer A. 2006. Research within the privacy regulations: problems and solutions for data base custodians. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics 2006; Vol 1 (1): e7 (http://www.ejhi.net) ISSN: 1446-4381

Smith J, Braunack-Mayer A, Wittert G. 2006. What do we know about men’s help seeking and health service use? Medical Journal of Australia. 2006; 184(2): 81-83.

Edwards I, Braunack-Mayer A, Jones M. 2005. Ethical reasoning as a clinical reasoning strategy in physiotherapy. Physiotherapy 2005;91:229-236.

Tan H, Braunack-Mayer A, Beilby J. 2005. The impact of the hospice environment on patient spiritual expression. Oncology Nursing Forum 2005;32:1049-55.

Braunack-Mayer AJ. 2005. What is a good GP? An empirical perspective on virtue in general practice.  Journal of Medical Ethics 2005;31:82-87  

Stocks N, Braunack-Mayer A, Somerset M, Gunnell, D. 2004. Binners, fillers and filers: A qualitative study of GPs who don’t return postal questionnaires. European Journal of General Practice 2004;10(4):146-151.

Lawlor A, Braunack-Mayer AJ.  2004. Doctors’ views about the importance of shared values in HIV-positive patient care: a qualitative study. Journal of Medical Ethics 2004;30:539-543.

Rogers WA, Mansfield P, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Jureidini J. 2004. The ethics of pharmaceutical industry relationships with medical students. Medical Journal of Australia 2004;180(8):411-414.

Edwards A, Jones M, Carr J, Braunack-Mayer A, Jensen G. 2004. Clinical reasoning strategies in physical therapy. Physical Therapy 2004;84:312-330.

Mulligan E, Braunack-Mayer A.  2004. Why protect confidentiality in health records? A review of research evidence. Australian Health Review 2004; 28:48-55.

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Entry last updated: Friday, 22 Mar 2013