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Biography
Janet is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University. She is a member of the Complexity Science group that uses a complexity lens to approach issues of quality and safety in the delivery of healthcare. Her research interests are around moving research into practice, interdisciplinary relationships and the impact of new technologies on real world practice. She brings both clinical and scientific expertise to these issues each of which provide unique insights.
She originally qualified as a registered general nurse before studying Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. She undertook research into invasive plants and responses of Australian native flora to climate change before returning to nursing in 2001. She worked in a number of health care settings including theatres, community, psychiatric, outpatient services and rehabilitation. Her last clinical role was Clinical Nurse Consultant at Sydney Eye Hospital as the Ophthalmology Community Liaison. In 2014, she moved into health services research, undertaking a PhD at University of New South Wales with Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite. She has been involved in a number of systematic reviews, including co-ordinating team reviews, and constructing recommendations from the findings.
Janet’s research focusses on crucial but sometimes hidden aspects of health delivery: mapping informal collaborative relationships and constructing process maps of work as it is actually done compared to how it is imagined. She used longitudinal social network analyses over five years to evaluate how a new translational research network increased collaborative links across hospital and university silos. Her systematic review of brokerage positions, “Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners” has been highly cited by other health service researchers. As well as social network analysis, Janet also uses the psychosocial theory of behaviour change (using the Theoretical Domains framework) and uses concepts from complexity theory to inform her work on translating research into clincial practice.
Janet is currently working with the Australian Genomic Health Alliance, a nationwide network of clinicians, medical scientists, researchers, and consumers tasked with introducing cost effective and clinically appropriate genomic medicine across Australia. She is co-leading the Implementation Science stream of work engaging teams from across Australia to evaluate, understand and learn from the experience of early adopters. She is also chief investigator of a separate project using a complexity lens to map the genomic community of practice across their 384 members and describe the influences and barriers to mainstream adoption of genomic practice.
Research student supervision
I currently supervise 2 ongoing PhD students: Gul (Macquarie), Ong (SydU) and have successfully co-supervised 2 PhD (Walton, UTas; Pomare, Macquarie) 2 MRes (Pomare, McPherson, Macquarie) and one Honours student (Chan, USyd) to completion. I also mentor another PhD (Mitchell, UNSW) and a medical administration trainee on the Australian College of Health Managers’ Fellowship program (Costantino, SLHD). As a result of these activities I have co-authored with my students, 13 peer-reviewed papers and contributed 19 conference presentations and posters.
I have supervised 4 Summer Research interns since 2016 [Zhu (UNSW), Olekalns (Adelaide U), Wu, Balos (MQ)] providing experience in data collection and analysis. Zhu and Olekalns each contributed and were included as co-authors on papers [both under review].
In 2019 I was awarded HDR SUpervision Associate Fellow from Macquarie University.
Education/Academic qualification
Nursing Education, MN, University of Technology Sydney
Award Date: 31 Dec 2009
Ecology, BSc (Hons1), Macquarie University
Award Date: 24 Dec 1999
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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UNSW led: Developing a model of Preventative Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disability
Trollor, J., Harris, M., Kavanagh, A., Fisher, K., Long, J., Reppermund, S., Harris-Roxas, B., Spooner, C., Sharma, A., Hatton, C., Srasuebkul, P., Crosland, P., Ananthapavan, J., Tracy, J., Bowman, J. & Lennox, N.
15/05/22 → 31/01/27
Project: Research
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Evaluation of a family support collaborative using a social network approach.
1/12/16 → …
Project: Research
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NSW Premier's Awards for Excellence in Cancer Research: Excellence in Translational Research
Ayliff, N., Long, J., Debono, D., Braithwaite, J., Chin, M., Salisbury, E., Williams, R., Potter, M., O'Neill, S., Eykman, E., Rawson, R., Butler, J., Dunlop, T. & Phan-Thien, K.
5/08/16 → …
Project: Research
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Aligning intuition and theory: a novel approach to identifying the determinants of behaviours necessary to support implementation of evidence into practice
Taylor, N., McKay, S., Long, J. C., Gaff, C., North, K., Braithwaite, J., Francis, J. J. & Best, S., 20 Jul 2023, In: Implementation Science. 18, 1, p. 1-17 17 p., 29.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Australian Genomics: outcomes of a 5-year national program to accelerate the integration of genomics in healthcare
Stark, Z., Boughtwood, T., Haas, M., Braithwaite, J., Gaff, C. L., Goranitis, I., Spurdle, A. B., Hansen, D. P., Hofmann, O., Laing, N., Metcalfe, S., Newson, A. J., Scott, H. S., Thorne, N., Ward, R. L., Dinger, M. E., Best, S., Long, J. C., Grimmond, S. M., Pearson, J., & 38 others , 2 Mar 2023, In: American Journal of Human Genetics. 110, 3, p. 419-426 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cultures of aged care delivery: qualitative content analysis of Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
Churruca, K., Long, J. C., Ellis, L. A., Saba, M. & Braithwaite, J., Jun 2023, In: Australasian Journal on Ageing. 42, 2, p. 417-422 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Electronic resources to address needs of people with rare diseases
Long, J. C., Best, S., Christodoulou, J. & Braithwaite, J., 27 Aug 2023, p. 333-334. 2 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Experience-based codesign approach to improve care in Australian emergency departments for complex consumer cohorts: the MyED project protocol, Stages 1.1-1.3
Cheek, C., Hayba, N., Richardson, L., Austin, E. E., Francis Auton, E., Safi, M., Ransolin, N., Vukasovic, M., De Los Santos, A., Murphy, M., Harrison, R., Churruca, K., Long, J. C., Hibbert, P. D., Carrigan, A., Newman, B., Hutchinson, K., Mitchell, R., Cutler, H., Holt, L., & 11 others , 5 Jul 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 7, p. 1-8 8 p., e072908.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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2022 Day 3 Meritorious Award (Abstract)
Sarkies, Mitchell (Recipient), Francis-Auton, Emilie (Recipient), Long, Janet (Recipient), Roberts, N. (Recipient), Westbrook, Johanna (Recipient), Levesque, J. (Recipient), Watson, D. (Recipient), Pomare, Chiara (Recipient), Partington, Andrew (Recipient) & Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient), 5 Dec 2022
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Awarded top 10% downloaded paper for 2018-2019 (Wiley)
Churruca, Kate (Recipient), Ludlow, Kristiana (Recipient), Taylor, N. (Recipient), Long, Janet (Recipient), Best, Stephanie (Recipient) & Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient), 2020
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Best Presentation Oral for Concurrent Session, Implementation Strategies.
Long, Janet (Recipient), Sarkies, Mitchell (Recipient), Francis-Auton, Emilie (Recipient), Nguyen, K. (Recipient), Roberts, N. (Recipient) & Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient), 26 Nov 2021
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Cancer Institute NSW Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Research
Taylor, N. (Recipient), Long, Janet (Recipient), Debono, D. (Recipient), O'Neill, S. O. (Recipient), Salisbury, E. (Recipient), Eykman, E. (Recipient), Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient) & Chin, M. (Recipient), 2016
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Highly Commended paper in the Mito Foundation Awards for Excellence in Mitochondrial Research
Long, Janet (Recipient), Best, Stephanie (Recipient), Hatem, S. (Recipient), Theodorou, T. (Recipient), Catton, T. (Recipient), Murray, S. (Recipient), Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient) & Christodoulou, J. (Recipient), 2022
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Implementation of large-scale, multi-site improvement programs: Audit and Feedback strategies
Janet Long (Speaker), Emilie Francis-Auton (Speaker), Mitchell Sarkies (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
14 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Implementation Science for the Mayo Clinic: Assessment of an intervention and randomised control trial of AI
Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker), Janet Long (Speaker), Louise Ellis (Speaker), Samantha Spanos (Speaker), Lisa Pagano (Speaker) & Georgia Fisher (Speaker)
16 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Electronic resources to address needs of people with rare diseases
Janet Long (Speaker), Stephanie Best (Speaker), John Christodoulou (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
28 Aug 2023 → 30 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Resilience in the face of complexity: An examination of the characteristics of resilience in the implementation of a large-scale community-based mental health intervention
Louise Ellis (Invited speaker), Yvonne Zurynski (Invited speaker), Robyn Clay-Williams (Invited speaker), Janet Long (Invited speaker), Mitchell Sarkies (Invited speaker), Kate Churruca (Invited speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
12 Sep 2022 → 14 Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Implementation Science and Systems Thinking for Behavioural Health and Medicine.
Mitchell Sarkies (Speaker), Kate Churruca (Speaker), Janet Long (Speaker), Louise Ellis (Speaker), Emilie Francis-Auton (Speaker), Ann Carrigan (Speaker) & Natalie Roberts (Speaker)
2 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk