DrShane Kavanagh

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation
  • +61 3 924 45522 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social epidemiology; community interventions; gender theory & men's health; systems thinking; health inequalities; health inequalities; multilevel modelling; qualitative methods.

Projects:
Resource Use in Community Health Programs - This project is a partnership between The Department of Health Tasmania and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. It takes a complex adaptive systems approach to explore the micro-infrastructure of resources necessary for community programs to reduce chronic disease risk.

Scoping Review of Gender Sensitive Approaches to Men's Weight Loss - undertaken with Dieu Nguyen (Deakin University) and Daryll Archibald
(University of Dundee, UK).

Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain - providing quantitative modelling advice for students based at Austin Hospital working with Prof. Sonia Grover at Mercy Health.

Scoping review of Men's Mental Health in India with Dr Sumit Kumar, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Scoping review of 'Tribal' people in India and vaccination - student project with Dr Sumit Kumar Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of
Higher Education

How can pregnancy services better engage men? Project in collaboration with Dr Karen Wynter, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University

The impact of COVID-19 on pathology testing in Australia - student project with Prof Catherine Bennett, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    City of Casey's Health & Wellbeing Household Survey
    17 Jun 2025 - 16 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    City of Casey - $62,371.23
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of the Health & Wellbeing Networks pilot project.
    1 Jul 2022 - 28 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Shane Kavanagh
    Health Consumers Tasmania Ltd - $135,930.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Student Mental Health Project with BUPA
    21 Feb 2022 - 31 Aug 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    BUPA HI Pty Ltd - $52,500.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Health literacy and engagement in health services among expectant and new fathers: a cross-sectional study
    Deakin University School of Nursing and Midwifery IHT Seed Funding Grant1 May 2021 - 18 Sep 2021
    People funded by this grant:
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Effectiveness of Interventions delivered by local council to address the social determinants of health.
    29 Jul 2019 - 22 Nov 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    The Sax Institute - CONTR2019/01715 - $25,000.00