Odenwaldkreis

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Position:A/Director Allied Health Research

I am a clinical researcher and my professional passion is to advance health services and thereby improve patient outcomes. I have research expertise in development of health models for management of chronic disease conditions, quality use of medicines, law and ethics, mental health and drug addiction services, and my translational research provides evidence for the development of new professional services. Practice experience include hospital and community pharmacy settings and I have also worked in medication policy and regulation roles and the implementation of quality use of medicines initiatives.

Individual

Position:Researcher

I serve as liaison to the Health Sciences at Widener and Outreach Coordinator for Wolfgram Memorial Library. I have experience working in corporate science, as well as being the User Experience (UX) Designer for an instructional design team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I was drawn to librarianship because I love helping people find what they are passionate about. I am a specialist in Evidence Based Practice, mindfulness, and Team Science. My professional interests include the use of graphic design in health literacy, LGBTQ+ issues in health care, and UX for libraries. As Outreach Coordinator I have the opportunity to promote the library's collections, services, and resources using displays, social media, and events. If you have ideas for outreach on campus that can include the library, please contact me.

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Dr Danielle Pollock is a Research Fellow at HESRI (Health Evidence Synthesis Recommendations and Impact). She has previously worked at JBI in the Transfer Science and Evidence Based Health Care Research Division. She developed the JBI Scoping Review Network is actively involved in the JBI Scoping Review methodology group and GIN ANZ working group. She has extensive teaching experience in health and social science, including best practice approaches in evidence-based healthcare. She has significant experience in the development of online and internal courses for undergraduate studies. Danielle’s previous research background is in psychology and midwifery, specialising in stillbirth and stigma. During her PhD, she developed the Stillbirth Stigma Scale, which measured the prevalence and type of stigma in bereaved parents. Her work highlighted that over half of bereaved mothers faced stigmatising attitudes and beliefs, and these experiences included being discriminated, feelings of contagiousness, isolation and unable to embrace their motherhood identity. Furthermore, Danielle’s work highlighted bereaved parents as advocates in changing the ingrained and fatalistic attitudes towards stillbirth held by clinicians, researchers, and government organisations. Her other research work includes exploring how government, non-government and health care professionals communicate with women about stillbirth. Danielle is an Early Career Researcher who prides herself on community involvement, such as her role as co-founder of the ASAP (Australian Stillbirth for Awareness and Prevention), and member of the Still Aware Consumer Advisory Board.

Individual

Position:Deputy director leading research

Dr Chinwe Lucia Ochu has over 23 years’ experience as a clinician. She has a M.B.,B.S from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria and a MPH from University of Liverpool, UK. She currently works with Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as a deputy director leading research, training and knowledge management. NCDC is Nigeria’s National Public Health Institute with the mandate to protect the health of Nigerians through prevention, early detection and control of infectious diseases of public health importance. She represents NCDC at the National Lassa Fever Research Consortium, National Health Research Committee and National Health Research Technical Working Group. She is involved in the development of a National Research for Health Agenda for Nigeria with identification of health research priorities. She is also involved in the development of Nigeria’s National Plan for Integrated Zoonotic Disease Surveillance and Research in Animals as well as in the development of National Ebola Virus Disease Contingency Plan for Nigeria. She has represented Nigeria in international discussions that border on the advancement of accelerator 5 of SDG3 (R&D, Innovation and Access). She was part of the health product development, implementation and funding partners deliberation on tackling bottlenecks that impede access to health innovation.