Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell

Senior Adviser

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell has finished working with the Prevention Centre.

Jo Mitchell is a Senior Adviser with the Prevention Centre and an Adjunct Associate Professor in both the School of Public Health, University of Sydney and the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney. Her role is to collaborate with the Co-Directors and the Coordinating Centre team to engage current and new policy partners in envisaging the potential next phase for the Centre and exploring the value of a ‘co-benefits of prevention’ portfolio.

Jo’s professional expertise is in policy and the delivery of state-wide services and programs for prevention. Her most recent government experience was as a senior executive with responsibility for population health in NSW. This included a focus on state-level policy, purchasing and performance and policy-relevant research in the areas of tobacco, obesity, HIV, viral hepatitis and drug and alcohol.

Jo holds degrees in science, nutrition, and public health and in 2018 was awarded a public service medal for her contribution to population health policy in NSW.

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's projects

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's news and media

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's resources

Ten years of preventive health – what have we learned?

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 13 Dec 2023
Infographic: The case for citizen science in public health policy and practice

Resource category: Visuals

Date 03 May 2023
A prevention lens on the roles of an Australian Centre for Disease Control

Resource category: Submissions

Date 27 Feb 2023
Public health law, regulation and policy for prevention

Resource category: Knowledge Syntheses

Date 11 Dec 2022
Response to the consultation paper on the role and functions of an Australian Centre for Disease Control

Resource category: Submissions

Date 09 Dec 2022
Seminar: Multisectoral collaboration and its impact on health and wellbeing

Resource category: Videos

Date 08 Dec 2022
Exploring opportunities for citizen science in policy and practice in preventive health

Resource category: Videos

Date 13 May 2022
Community perceptions of NCD prevention 2016 to 2018: An increasing appetite for government leadership?

Resource category: Videos

Date 12 May 2022

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's projects

Embedding and strengthening prevention in the Queensland public health system

Implementation and scale up

Shedding light on how health policies are implemented

Model behaviour: A systems approach to alcohol-related harm

Communicating prevention: approaches to framing and storytelling

Perceptions of prevention: What does the Australian community think?

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's news and media

Blue sky thinking for the new Australian CDC

The spectrum of research for public health law

Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research

Giving voice to what supports prevention in the Queensland public health system

Using system science to reveal and strengthen prevention in the Queensland public health system

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

Meet Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell

The secrets of successful partnership research

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's resources

Ten years of preventive health – what have we learned?

Infographic: The case for citizen science in public health policy and practice

A prevention lens on the roles of an Australian Centre for Disease Control

Public health law, regulation and policy for prevention

Response to the consultation paper on the role and functions of an Australian Centre for Disease Control

Seminar: Multisectoral collaboration and its impact on health and wellbeing

Exploring opportunities for citizen science in policy and practice in preventive health

Community perceptions of NCD prevention 2016 to 2018: An increasing appetite for government leadership?

Adjunct Associate Professor Jo Mitchell's publications

The case for citizen science in public health policy and practice: a mixed methods study of policymaker and practitioner perspectives and experiences

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

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

Changes in Australian community perceptions of non-communicable disease prevention: a greater role for government?

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

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

Codesign of the Population Health Information Management System to measure reach and practice change of childhood obesity programs

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

Dynamic simulation modelling of policy responses to reduce alcohol-related harms: rationale and procedure for a participatory approach

Comprehensive sector-wide strategies to prevent and control obesity: what are the potential health and broader societal benefits? A case study from Australia