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Associate Professor Carissa Bonner is a behavioral scientist at The University of Sydney's School of Public Health, specializing in risk communication, health literacy, and shared decision making. She leads the Sydney Health Literacy Lab and contributes to the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data. Her work focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention, diabetes management, and infectious disease control, with over 120 peer-reviewed publications and $10M in research funding. She advises national and international health organizations like the Heart Foundation and WHO, and has developed tools such as the Heart Health Check decision aids.
Her research explores behavioral insights in healthcare, including doctor-patient communication, risk perception, and decision aids. Current projects include CHAT-GP (eHealth tools for CVD prevention), diabetes self-management apps for culturally diverse communities, and vaccination barrier assessments via the Vaccine Barriers Assessment Tool.
- Education: MPH and PhD (details unspecified)
- Affiliations: Charles Perkins Centre, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Economics
Her articles address health literacy interventions, pandemic response strategies, and clinical guideline implementation. Awards include recognition for paper impact and conference contributions. She supervises students in psychology, public health, and eHealth, and teaches topics like decision aids and behavior change techniques.
Grants & Partnerships: NHMRC, Heart Foundation, Prevention Centre, Department of Health, RACGP. Projects include codesigning digital resources for Heart Health Checks and tailoring tools for Aboriginal communities.
Her labs and teams include the Sydney Health Literacy Lab and collaborations with Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to improve CVD prevention strategies.