Current projects

• Development of the Victorian Health Literacy Response Framework
• Development and validation of a comprehensive measure of health literacy: The Health Literacy Questionnaire
• The Thai measure of Health Literacy: Development and validation of a national tool, With Dr Charay Vichathai, Health Systems Research Institute, Thailand
• Development and implementation of an innovative web-based self-management support intervention (SteppingUp...when arthritis or pain gets you down)
• Developing and implementing a self-management support system for people with diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidemia at a province level in Thailand with Dr Napaporn Wanitkun, Mahidol University, Thailand.
• Adaptation, validation and dissemination of the heiQ (Health Education Impact Questionnaire™) across settings, countries and languages

Selected past projects

• Core Skills in Self-management program for health professionals
• Development and national and international dissemination of the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ™)
• Development of the Hep C: Take Control self-management education program
• Evaluation of the Victorian Government Nurse On Call Telephone Coaching Service

Selected international collaborations

• A/Professor Lars Kayser and Ole Norgaard, Centre for Human Centred Computing, Copehagen University, Denmark; Development and validation of a new measure or e-health literacy
• Professor Annie Chieh-Hsing Liu, Department of health promotion and health education, Taiwan National Normal University; Development and application of the Taiwanese measure of health literacy for school children
• Development of the Thai health literacy measure
• Dr Napaporn Wanitkun, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University, Thailand; Self-management support system for DM, HT, Dyslipidemia at a province level program
• Kristine Sorenson, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Development and application of the Health Literacy Survey European Union (EU-HLS)
• Professor Stanton Newman, City University, London; Whole System Demonstrator Programme
• Professor Rachelle Buchbinder, Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital, Australia; International development of the Back Pain Burden questionnaire
• Professor Elizabeth Maunsell, Université Laval, Quebec; Development and validation of the heiQ-C as a measure of empowerment and quality of survivorship in people with cancer.
• Professor Mikako Arakida, Odawara International University of Health and Welfare; Development and validation of the heiQ-J, an outcomes measure of self-management support in Japanese people with metabolic syndrome
• Professor Inge Ehlebracht-Koenig, Hannover Medical School, Germany; German translation, adaptation and validation of the generic Health Education Impact Questionnaire
• Professor Francis Guillrmin, Inserm CIC-EC, Service d'épidémiologie et évaluation cliniques, Hopitaux de Brabois, France; Empirical studies of methods for translating and culturally adapting psychometric questionnaires