Associate ProfessorAlison Beauchamp

Alison is a Senior Research Fellow in the Health Systems Improvement Unit at
Deakin University. She recently completed an ARC-post doctoral fellowship on
the project "Enhancing Health Literacy to optimise health equality across
Victorian communities". Her role was to manage this large project (named
Ophelia Victoria), which involved collaborating with 9 healthcare sites
throughout Victoria to support them in applying a new approach to intervention
development and implementation. Currently, Alison is CI on a large project in
collaboration with BreastScreen Victoria and the Victorian Department of
Health and Human Services which uses health literacy as a means to optimising
engagement in breast screening for the diverse community living in North West
Melbourne.

In her role as Senior Research Fellow, Alison aims to strengthen the evidence-
base for the determinants of health inequalities, and to develop methods for
identifying which types of healthcare interventions contribute to
socioeconomic gradients in health outcomes. Alison was a NHMRC scholar in the
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University and
was awarded her PhD in 2011. Prior to undertaking her PhD, Alison was a
Registered Nurse with an extensive cardiac portfolio. This clinical background
provides her with a unique perspective on addressing the challenges associated
with implementing new interventions in healthcare settings. She currently co-
supervises five PhD students, and has a strong track record relative to
opportunity. Her growing international profile is evidenced by invitations to
present her work in Australia the UK, the US and Asia.