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Senior’s Name: Julie Ayre
Availability: 2/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

Pairing - Junior

Title: Postdoctoral research fellow
Institution: University of Sydney
Discipline: Public Health
Years of experience: 4

Research

Areas of work:

  • Health literacy
  • Minorities / disadvantaged population
  • Patient education

Research methods:

  • Co-design
  • Implementation research
  • Mixed methods
  • Qualitative methods
  • RCT

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. health literacy

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

My expertise is in health literacy, with a strong focus on written health information. I use qualitative and quantitative methods (and often both simultaneously) to develop, refine, and test interventions to support health literacy in health organisations. I am also interested in how we can leverage AI technologies to improve application of health literacy principles to health information and services.

Biography/CV:

Dr Ayre is an early career postdoctoral researcher, awarded the highly competitive National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Research Fellow (2023-2027) and Health Equity stream lead within the Sydney Health Literacy Lab. Her research focuses on using digital technology to support health literacy initiatives, including development of easy-to-understand written health information. Most recently she has developed and evaluated the Health Literacy Editor, an online tool that gives objective feedback on the complexity of health information. Dr Ayre has a strong track record with >50 publications in high quality national and international journals (e.g. PLOS Medicine, MJA). As Equity stream lead in the lab she has also established a community panel to facilitate co-design and consumer involvement processes in her lab. She is an active academic in the Health Literacy Hub, a community of practice comprising >3000 members that seeks to increase health literacy skills and research capacity, and regularly delivers training to staff, students, and academics. Dr Ayre sits on the Scientific Advisory Team for the Australian Government’s National Health Literacy Strategy.