Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe

Professor Emeritus of Public Health

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Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe is a founding member of the Prevention Centre’s Leadership Executive (2013-2023) and Lead Investigator across a range of projects since the Centre was established in 2013. Her research interests are in community strength and resilience, complex community interventions, social network analysis, whole-school interventions to promote health and improvement science.

Penny was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney when she was recruited to the University of Calgary, Canada, in 2000 to take up the foundation Markin Chair in Health and Society. She returned to the University in Sydney in December 2014 as Professor of Public Health at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics.

Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe's projects

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Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe's resources

‘Soft power’ for prevention comes from engaging the public with prevention as a science

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 29 Jan 2021
Scaling-up complex interventions: Adaptation is not a threat to fidelity (and maybe never was)

Resource category: Videos

Date 17 Aug 2020
How can citizen science help public health research?

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 09 Sep 2019
A program perspective on systems thinking

Resource category: Videos

Date 27 Apr 2015

Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe's projects

How to fund prevention delivery

Enriching community capacity for better health

Assessing costs and benefits of whole-of-government prevention

Learning from local communities: Prevention Tracker expands

Shedding light on how health policies are implemented

Prevention Tracker: Learning locally to act nationally

Learning from complexity: when theory follows practice

Communicating prevention: approaches to framing and storytelling

Economic analysis of prevention: Evaluating the ripple effect

Embedding and strengthening prevention in the Queensland public health system

Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe's news and media

Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research

When people are stopped from telling their story

Thought experiments with ‘fake’ research abstracts help policy makers visualise actions to be taken on evidence

Knowledge generated from practice shows how to bring about system change for better health

Public health: making the most of “citizen science”

Four projects take the Prevention Centre into its new phase

How can citizens contribute to the science and practice of public health?

Engaging citizens in monitoring workplace support for breastfeeding

Enacting change in complex systems: Why theory matters

Internships to break new ground in communicating prevention

Social network tool provides insights into communities

Chief Investigators honoured for outstanding prevention paper

Engaging the bystanders of public health

We should broaden our view of science if it’s to help make good public policy

Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe's resources

‘Soft power’ for prevention comes from engaging the public with prevention as a science

Scaling-up complex interventions: Adaptation is not a threat to fidelity (and maybe never was)

How can citizen science help public health research?

A program perspective on systems thinking

Professor Emeritus Penny Hawe's publications

Icing or cake? Grant competitions as a model for funding chronic disease prevention in Tasmania, Australia

A call to action: More collaborative implementation research is needed to prevent chronic disease

Soft infrastructure: the critical community-level resources reportedly needed for program success

Scale-up of prevention programmes: Sustained state-wide use of programme delivery software is explained by normalised self-organised adoption and non-adoption

The risk management practices of health research ethics committees may undermine citizen science to address basic human rights

Can adaptation to ‘extraordinary’ times teach us about ways to strengthen community-based chronic disease prevention? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic

Sydney’s ‘last drinks’ laws: A content analysis of news media coverage of views and arguments about a preventive health policy

Adapting interventions to new contexts—the ADAPT guidance

Using citizen science to engage the public in monitoring workplace breastfeeding support in Australia

‘Old’ tools in a new era: unpacking the roles of promotional and informational resources in scaled-up preventive interventions

The weight of words: Co-analysis of thick ethnographic description and “friction” as methodological strategies in a health policy research partnership

Resources, relationships, and systems thinking should inform the way community health promotion is funded

Core and peripheral organisations in prevention: Insights from social network analysis

Applying systems thinking to knowledge mobilisation in public health

30+ years of media analysis of relevance to chronic disease: a scoping review

Capturing implementation knowledge: applying focused ethnography to study how implementers generate and manage knowledge in the scale-up of obesity prevention programs

Research on media framing of public policies to prevent chronic disease: A narrative synthesis

Variation in the operationalisation of dose in implementation of health promotion interventions: insights and recommendations from a scoping review

Knowledge mobilisation for chronic disease prevention: the case of the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

Will E-Monitoring of Policy and Program Implementation Stifle or Enhance Practice? How Would We Know?

Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions

Communicating the benefits of population health interventions: The health effects can be on par with those of medication

Exploring the use of economic evidence to inform investment in disease prevention – a qualitative study

The contribution of social ecological thinking to community psychology: origins, practice and research

Dynamics behind the scale up of evidence-based obesity prevention: protocol for a multi-site case study of an electronic implementation monitoring system in health promotion practice

Does citizen science have the capacity to transform population health science?

The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health

A new model of collaborative research: experiences from one of Australia’s NHMRC Partnership Centres for Better Health

Complex intervention modelling should capture the dynamics of adaptation

Comparison communities in a cluster randomised trial innovate in response to ‘being controlled’

Lessons from complex interventions to improve health