Ms Jodie Doyle

Cochrane Public Health Review Group Coordinator

Telephone: +61 3 9667 1336
Email: jdoyle@ vichealth.vic.gov.au
Cochrane weblink: www.ph.cochrane.org

Introduction

Jodie Doyle is coordinator of the Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field.  In this role, Jodie facilitates communication between health promotion and public health practitioners and researchers and the international Cochrane Collaboration.  She advocates for the interests of health promotion and public health in Cochrane reviews and is especially directed towards enabling wide participation (locally and internationally) in all Cochrane initiatives.  This role also involves instigating and engaging in debates about what constitutes evidence in health promotion and the need for diligence in continually improving research methodology to evaluate health promotion and public health intervention effectiveness.

Jodie’s current research interests include:

• Systematic review methodology
• Identifying ways to present research findings to enhance utility in decision making
• Priority setting research

Qualifications

Master of Health Sciences (Public Health Practice), La Trobe University, 2000
Master of Public Health La Trobe University (Victorian Public Health Consortium), 2000
Grad Dip Health Promotion, La Trobe University, 1996
Bachelor of Nursing, Deakin University, 1993
Diploma of Nursing, Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education, 1989

Work history

Jodie’s career roles have included clinical nurse specialist, public health practitioner, researcher and Cochrane Review Group Coordinator. Work environments have included clinical settings, federal, state and regional government,  research organisations and tertiary institutions.

• 2001-current: Research Fellow, Coordinator, Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field
• 2002: Tuturer, Deakin  (Health Promotion Unit, Master of Public Health)
• 2000-2001: Redevelopment Project Officer, Sport and Recreation Program, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)
• 1998-2000: Victorian Public Health Training Scheme - Project work undertaken at the following:
  • Royal Children’s Hospital, Centre for Community Child Health
  • Monash University Accident Research Centre
  • Victorian Department of Human Services, Barwon-South Western Region
  • Victorian Department of Human Services, Environmental Health Unit
  • Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Legislation and Standards Section
  • Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
  • Puckapunyal Safe Haven (for East Timorese evacuees)
• 1990 – 1998: Registered Nurse/Clinical Nurse Specialist/Graduate Nurse Educator, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Recent publications

Waters, E. Armstrong, R. Doyle, J. Evidence to inform multisectoral approaches in health promotion. In H.Keleher, MacDougall, C. B. Murphy. (eds) (2007). Understanding health promotion. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, pp 81-99.

Armstrong R, Doyle J, Lamb C and Waters E.  Multi-sectoral Health Promotion and Public Health: The Role of Evidence. Submitted to J Public Health 2006 28(2):168-172.

Waters E, Doyle J, Jackson N, Howes F, Brunton G, and Oakley A. Evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions: the role and activities of the Cochrane Collaboration.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2006 Apr; 60(4):285-9

Doyle J, Waters E, Yach D, McQueen D, De Francisco A, Stewart T, Reddy P, Gulmezoglu M, Galea G, and Portela A.  Global priority setting for Cochrane systematic reviews of health promotion and public health research. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2005 Mar;59 (3):193-7.

Jackson N, Howes F, Gupta S, Doyle J, Waters E Interventions implemented through sporting organisations for increasing participation in sport.  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.  2005 April 18:2 CD004812
Howes F, Doyle J, Jackson N, Waters E. Evidence-based public health: the importance of finding "difficult to locate" public health and health promotion intervention studies for systematic reviews. Journal of Public Health Medicine. Mar 2004; 26(1):101-104

Doyle J, Waters E Harnessing support for prioritised Cochrane reviews in health promotion and public health--update from the Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field.
Promotion and Education. 2004;11(4):204-5.