Professor Sharon Lawn
Professor
College of Medicine and Public Health
Sharon joined Flinders University in 2004, as lead writer of the Self-Management brief for the Australian National Chronic Disease Strategy. This submission placed self-management firmly within policy and practice nationally. Its recommendations contributed to the development of the Australian Better Health Initiative. It was also seminal in establishing Flinders University researchers as national leaders in chronic disease research. Sharon is highly active in mental health consumer-carer movement in Australia and brings multi-disciplinary skills and experience from being a health professional for more than 23 years. Her research uses a broad range of qualitative and mixed methods, and focuses on examining the culture of service provision, systems of care, implementation, and service users' experiences of care. Sharon is also currently the lead Mental Health Commissioner for South Australia.
Exceptional contribution to Mental Health Services in Australia by an Individual - The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) Conference 2007.
SA Pride of Australia Medal - Community Spirit Category, 2012.
2013 Top Ten most viewed ROAR Profiles Australian PHC Research
Winner, 2015 TheMHS Conference Award Category entitled – ‘Consumer Led’. For significant and sustained consumer and carer advocacy.
BMC International Section Editor of the Year, 2016
Winner, Carers SA Carer Achievement Award, SA Community Achievement Awards, 2016
Former Course Coordinator for the Post Graduate Program in Chronic Condition Management and Self-Management
Former Director, Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Dept of Psychiatry, Flinders University
- Chronic Conditions
- Mental Health
- Addictions / Tobacco
- Person Centred Approaches
Heart Foundation Scholarship 2014 -
Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme: NAHSSS Scholarship 2014 -
RHD Student Publication Award - AUG 2015
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship - MAR 2019
Suicide Prevention Australia Scholarship - JUN 2019
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship - DEC 2017
Australian Federation of University Women SA Inc Trust Fund -
Directorate General of Resources for Science, Technology and Higher Education (DG-RSTHE) of the Republic of Indonesia Scholarship - DEC 2014
Editorial Roles
- Asociate Editor - Chronic Illness
- Associate Editor - International Journal of Environmental & Public Health Research
- Editorial Board - Australian Journal of Primary Health
- Editorial Board - ISRN Psychiatry
Committees & Membership
- Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing
- Orama Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Open Door Veteran Veteran Transition Integration Wellbeing
- Southgate Institute
- Prideaux Centre
- Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute
- SA Health Human Research Ethics Committee (2007-2016)
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, Community Collaboration Committee
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, Committee of Research
- Private Mental Health Consumer and Carer Network (Australia) SA State Coordinator and National Executive member
- Member Skylight (formally the Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia (MIFSA))
- Member of Carers SA
- International Early Psychosis Association, South Australia
- International Network on Tobacco and Mental Health
- International Chronic Disease Self Management Research Network
- Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network (TCLN),Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School for Health Professionals, 2009; 2010.
- Judging Panel for The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) Conference Inc of Australia and New Zealand
- Addiction
- Family
- Health/Medical education
- Mental health
- Schizophrenia
- Veterans
- Chronic Condition Management adn Self-Management
- Health Service Consumer and Carer Issues
- Mental Health
- Smoking and Mental Health
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