Biography summary
Shane Kavanagh is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development and Course Director for the Master of Public Health. He has more than 20 years’ experience working in the community health sector as a Physiotherapist in both Australia and the UK. His research expertise includes the areas of men’s health, gender, gender inequality, social inequalities, multi-level modelling, systems thinking and community-based interventions
Research interests
social epidemiology; men's health; community interventions; systems thinking; health inequalities
Teaching interests
Epidemiology; Biostatisitics; Public Health; Social Epidemiology
Units taught
HBS108; HSH205; HSH216; HSH360: HSH725
Knowledge areas
Extensive expertise in community interventions; systems theory; men's health and gender; health inequalities; multilevel modelling; qualitative methods.
Conferences
Oral Presentation at 15th World Congress on Public Health – Melbourne Australia, 2017: Does gender inequity increase the risk of poorer self-rated health in men? A multilevel analysis of United States data.
Projects
Resource Use in Community Health Programs – This project is a partnership between The Department of Health Tasmania and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. It takes a complex adaptive systems approach to explore the micro-infrastructure of resources necessary for community programs to reduce chronic disease risk.
Scoping Review of Gender Sensitive Approaches to Men’s Weight Loss – undertaken with Dieu Nguyen (Deakin University) and Daryll Archibald (University of Dundee, UK).
Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain – providing quantitative modelling advice for students based at Austin Hospital working with Prof. Sonia Grover at Mercy Health.
Scoping review of Men’s Mental Health in India with Dr Sumit Kumar, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Scoping review of ‘Tribal’ people in India and vaccination – student project with Dr Sumit Kumar Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
How can pregnancy services better engage men? Project in collaboration with Dr Karen Wynter, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University
The impact of COVID-19 on pathology testing in Australia – student project with Prof Catherine Bennett, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University
Publications
Louise Harms, Robyn Molyneaux, Hanh Nguyen, David Pope, Karen Block, H Gallagher, Shane Kavanagh, Phoebe Quinn, Meaghan O'Donnell, Lisa Gibbs
(2024), Vol. 16, pp. 303-311, Psychological Trauma: theory, research, and practice, Washington, D.C., C1
Vanessa Watkins, Shane Kavanagh, Jacqui Macdonald, Bodil Rasmussen, Helle Maindal, Sarah Hosking, Karen Wynter
(2024), Vol. 130, pp. 1-10, Midwifery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Health literacy among fathers and fathers-To-be: A multi-country, cross-sectional survey
K Wynter, V Watkins, S Kavanagh, S Hosking, B Rasmussen, H Maindal, J Macdonald
(2023), Vol. 38, Health Promotion International, C1
Marsh Geraldine, Shane Kavanagh, Vanessa White, Virginia Lewis
(2023), [Melbourne, Vic.], A6
V Loblay, K Garvey, A Shiell, S Kavanagh, P Hawe
(2022), Vol. 32, pp. 127-138, Critical Public Health, London, Eng, C1
Soft infrastructure: the critical community-level resources reportedly needed for program success
S Kavanagh, P Hawe, A Shiell, M Mallman, K Garvey
(2022), Vol. 22, pp. 1-9, BMC Public Health, London, Eng., C1
V Loblay, K Garvey, A Shiell, S Kavanagh, P Hawe
(2022), Vol. 37, Health promotion international, England, C1
I Conroy, S Mooney, S Kavanagh, M Duff, I Jakab, K Robertson, A Fitzgerald, A Mccutchan, S Madden, S Maxwell, S Nair, N Origanti, A Quinless, K Mirowski-Allen, M Sewell, S Grover
(2021), Vol. 61, pp. 765-772, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Australia, C1
Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions
A Shiell, P Hawe, S Kavanagh
(2020), Vol. 257, Social Science and Medicine, England, C1
C Bigby, E Bould, T Iacono, S Kavanagh, J Beadle-Brown
(2020), Vol. 33, pp. 334-344, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, London, Eng., C1
How gender inequity impacts on men's health. An exploration of theoretical pathways
Shane Kavanagh, Melissa Graham
(2019), Vol. 2, pp. e11-e21, International journal of mens social and community health, [Canada], C1
Is gender inequity a risk factor for men reporting poorer self-rated health in the United States?
S Kavanagh, J Shelley, C Stevenson
(2018), Vol. 13, PLoS ONE, United States, C1
S Kavanagh, J Shelley, C Stevenson
(2017), Vol. 3, pp. 358-365, SSM - Population Health, England, C1
Use of pregnancy counselling services in Australia 2007-2012
J Shelley, S Kavanagh, M Graham, C Mayes
(2015), Vol. 39, pp. 77-81, Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, London, Eng., C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Industry and Other Funding
Effectiveness of Interventions delivered by local council to address the social determinants of health.
Prof Kathryn Backholer, Prof Anna Peeters, Prof Adrian Cameron, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Shane Kavanagh, Dr Christina Zorbas
The Sax Institute
- 2019: $25,000
Student Mental Health Project with BUPA
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Samantha Thomas, Dr Patrick Owen, Dr Shane Kavanagh
BUPA HI Pty Ltd
- 2024: $12,500
- 2023: $25,000
- 2022: $15,000
Evaluation of the Health & Wellbeing Networks pilot project.
Dr Shane Kavanagh
Health Consumers Tasmania Ltd
- 2023: $95,151
- 2022: $15,779
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report