Dr Jackie Street

Qualifications

2005 Graduate Diploma in Primary Health Care, Flinders University.

1985 Ph.D., University of London, UK.

1978 B.Sc. Honours 2:1, University of Reading, UK

 

Teaching Interests

• community engagement
• deliberative democratic methodology
  
• public health policy
• research ethics
• publication ethics

Research Interests

Current research interests

Community participation in decision making in policy and health technology assessment

Methods for engaging community in policy including deliberative inclusive processes

Using emerging communication networks such as blogs, wikis and discussion forums to collect community and stakeholder views on health technologies and policy issues

Ethical practice of research including the ethics of publication, authorship and peer review

Including patient perspectives in health technology assessment and health service evaluation

Current Projects

Healthcare in the round: Building capacity in health services research across disciplines

Health policy makers perceptions of the developmen and implementation of compulsory public health measures

Deliberative methods for policy development: a systematic review

Including partisan voices in policy development: how do we do this effectively

ASTUTE:Changing policy and practice in health care - uses a case study of public funding for assisted reproductive technologies to develop a model for including all stakeholders in decision making around the evidence (as a society should we continue to invest or should we disinvest?)

Past Projects

SIREN: evaluating community understanding of and participation in strategies to prevent the spread of H1N1

FluViews: enabling effective influenza pandemic policy through engagement with the community

Publication and authorship: An empirical study of the norms of behaviour of health researchers in the pursuit of research publications

Publications

Selected Publications

Book chapters:

Braunack-Mayer, AJ, Street JM, Palmer N. The Ethics of New Technologies, Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics, 2010 In Press

Street J M New Technologies: Ethics of Genomics. In: Kris Heggenhougen and Stella Quah, editors. International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Vol 4. San Diego: Academic Press; 2008. pp. 528-532.

 Reports:

Merlin T, Street J, Holton C, Mundy L, Tamblyn D, Juneja V, Ellery B, Reddin E, Scrimgrour S, Hennessy S. 2011. Review of MBS items for specific ophthalmology services under the MBS Quality Framework. Medicare Benfits Branch. Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia. In Press.

Street, J., Baum, F. & Anderson, I, Making Research Relevant: Grant Assessment Processes in Indigenous Research, Discussion Paper No. 3, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin. 2008

Journal articles

Street JM, Hennessy S, Watt A, Hiller J, Elshaug A. 2010. News and social media: windows into community perspectives on disinvestment. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. In Press.

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

Docter S, Street JM, Brauanck-Mayer AJ, van der Wilt G-J. 2011. Public perceptions of resource allocation in a pandemic: A deliberative forum using Grid-Group analysis. Journal of Public Health Policy. doi:10.1057/jphp.2010.49

Braunack-Mayer AJ, Street JM*, Rogers WA, Givney R, Moss JR, Hiller JE and the FluViews team. Including the public in pandemic planning: a deliberative approach.  BMC Public Health. 2010 10:501  [*equal first author]

Street JM, Rogers WA, Israel M, Braunack-Mayer AJ. Credit where credit is due? Regulation, research integrity and the attribution of authorship in the health sciences. Soc. Sci. Med. 2010 70(9): 1458-1465

Rogers,WA, Street JM, Braunack-Mayer AJ, Hiller JE, & the FluViews team. Pandemic influenza communication: views from a deliberative forum. Health Expectations. 2009;12(3):331-42.

 Marshall, H, Ryan P, Roberton D, Street J, Watson M. Pandemic Influenza and Community Preparedness. Am J Public Health. 2009 October 1, 2009;99(S2):S365-71.

 Street, J, Baum, F, Anderson,I. Is peer review useful in assessing research proposals in Indigenous health? A case study. Health Research Policy and Systems.:2. 2009 doi:10.1186/1478-4505-7-2

Anikeeva, O, Braunack-Mayer, AJ, Street JM: How will Australian general practitioners respond to an influenza pandemic? A qualitative study of ethical values. MJA. 189 (3): 148-150. 2008
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_03_040808/ani10243_fm.html

Street, J. Braunack-Mayer, A, J, Ashcroft, R, Facey, K. Hiller: Virtual community consultation? Using the literature and weblogs to link community perspectives and health technology assessment. Health Expectations. Jun;11(2):189-200, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2007.00484.x

Street, J, Baum, F, Anderson, I: Developing a collaborative research system for Aboriginal health. Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 31(4):372-378, 2007

 

Professional Associations

Vice President and Immediate Past President, Public Health Association of Australia (SA Branch)

Member, Health Technology Assessment international and Co-Chair, Citizen and Community Involvement Working Group, HTAi Interest Sub-Group on Patient/Citizen Involvement in HTA

Member, Ethics Center of South Australia

Member, Health Services Research Australia, Australia and New Zealand

Member, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law  

Community Engagement

Health Technology Assessment International,  Patient and Citizen Involvement Sub-group.

Scientific Program Committee, PHAA National Conference, 27-29th September, 2010, Adelaide

Pandemic Influenza Health Steering Committee for South Australia: Member 2007-2009

South Australian Council on Reproductive Technology: Deputy Member 2007-2010

Public Officer for SASCWA Inc. a charity supporting families, schools and orphanages in Assam, India. 2006 - ongoing.

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 8 Feb 2012