Dr Graeme Hoddinott (USYD)

Title: Applying psychology (socio-behavioural science) to tuberculosis – acceptability, value, and preferences

Abstract:

When I was a psychology student, I thought I was going to be ‘a psychologist’. That’s not what happened. Instead, I trace a journey of 20 years working alongside medical clinicians, epidemiologists, and public health implementers. I have leveraged my expertise in understanding people’s experiences and how these experiences interface with history, context, social systems, and health systems, to turn my training in psychology to a required skill for policy-impactful health research. I share five examples from the field of mixed-method, multi-disciplinary projects, mostly on tuberculosis and children. And I invite discussion on lessons-learned toward opportunities and conceptualisations of applied health psychology.

Bio:

Graeme trained in psychology in South Africa. He is now a senior lecturer in global health at the Sydney School of Public Health. He is also an extraordinary associate professor in paediatrics and child health (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), and an African Academy of Sciences “ARISE” Fellow hosted by the Group for Research in Infectious Diseases (GRID) at the University of Namibia. He will tell us about his research in the presentation.