Australia:

Jennifer Fitzgerald
Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

Contact email: jenny.fitzgerald@uq.edu.au

Current projects: Clinical communication skills for UQ medical students: an evaluation of
innovative technologies for skills assessment and development.

Lisa Fry
University of Sydney, School of Behavioural and Community Health Science

Contact email: leesnick@bigpond.net.au

Current Project: MA thesis; From adherence to concordance: Personal constructs regarding agreement about asthma management in people with asthma and their physicians

Claire Hooker

University of Sydney

Contact email: claireh@med.usyd.edu.au

Current projects: Lay understandings of cancer risk; Responses to SARS; Public responses to health scares

Julie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Children's Hospital at Westmead
University of Sydney

Contact email: JulieL3@chw.edu.au

Current projects: Vaccine risk communication, decision aids, mass media, infectious diseases risk discourses

Bernadette M Watson
The University of Queensland, School of Psychology

Contact email:  bernadette@uq.edu.au

Current projects:  Clinical handover effectiveness (not funded as yet)  Effective communication between health professionals and patients (prev ARC), Organisational Change (post ARC)

New Zealand:

James Green
School of Pharmacy, University of Otago

Contact email: james.green@otago.ac.nz

Current projects: First impressions in healthcare communication


Key Contact/Administrator:

Sarah White

Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH)

University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Contact email: sarahjoanwhite@gmail.com; hcrnanz@gmail.com

Current projects: PhD research: The Structure of Surgeon-Patient Consultations