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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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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
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Harnessing implementation science, complexity science and evidence-based care to Keep Australians Out of Hospital: leveraging seven natural experiments in New South Wales
Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, J., Day, R., Levesque, J., Mitchell, R., Rapport, F., Cutler, H., Tran, Y., Clay-Williams, R., Watson, D., Arnolda, G., Hibbert, P., Lystad, R., Mumford, V., Long, J., Sarkies, M., Francis-Auton, E., Roberts, N. & Gu, Y.
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Evaluation of a family support collaborative using a social network approach.
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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.
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An exploratory survey study of disorder and its association with safety culture in four hospitals
Churruca, K., Ellis, L. A., Long, J. C., Pomare, C., Liauw, W., O’Donnell, C. M. & Braithwaite, J., 21 Apr 2022, In: BMC Health Services Research. 22, 1, p. 1-10 10 p., 530.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conceptualising contexts, mechanisms and outcomes for implementing large-scale, multisite hospital improvement initiatives: a realist synthesis
Long, J. C., Sarkies, M. N., Francis Auton, E., Nguyen, H. M., Pomare, C., Hardwick, R. & Braithwaite, J., 19 May 2022, In: BMJ Open. 12, 5, p. 1-16 16 p., e058158.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Invited symposium at the 2022 Australian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine (ASBHM) Conference, Perth, Australia, February 2-4.
Sarkies, M., Churruca, K., Long, J., Ellis, L., Francis-Auton, E., Carrigan, A. & Roberts, N., 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
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Making implementation science more real
Sarkies, M. N., Francis-Auton, E., Long, J. C., Pomare, C., Hardwick, R. & Braithwaite, J., 25 Jun 2022, In: BMC Medical Research Methodology. 22, 1, p. 1-8 8 p., 178.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Networks to strengthen community social capital for suicide prevention in regional Australia: the LifeSpan suicide prevention initiative
Long, J. C., Ruane, C., Ellis, L. A., Lake, R., Le Roux, A., Testa, L., Shand, F., Torok, M. & Zurynski, Y., 7 Feb 2022, In: International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 16, p. 1-16 16 p., 10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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, Natalie (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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Wiley Top Cited Article 2019-2020, Paper Published in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Pomare, Chiara (Recipient), Churruca, Kate (Recipient), Ellis, Louise (Recipient), Long, Janet (Recipient) & Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Recipient), 15 Apr 2021
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Realist studies: a deep dive into why interventions work sometimes but not all the time.
Emilie Francis-Auton (Speaker), Janet Long (Speaker), Mitchell Sarkies (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
2 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Managing Mito: an exploration of clinical practice and experience of people with mito
Janet Long (Speaker), Stephanie Best (Speaker), John Christodoulou (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
26 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Implementing large-system value-based healthcare initiatives: A realist study protocol for seven natural experiments
Mitchell Sarkies (Invited speaker) & Janet Long (Invited speaker)
21 Jul 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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System interactions: Exploration of individual and system resilient characteristics in the implementation of a community-based mental health intervention
Louise Ellis (Speaker), Janet Long (Speaker), Mitchell Sarkies (Speaker), Eline Ree (Speaker), Siri Wiig (Speaker), Robyn Clay-Williams (Invited speaker), Yvonne Zurynski (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
18 Aug 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Resilient Health Care and Health Systems Resilience: Two sides of the same coin or different coins?
Andrew Smaggus (Speaker), Janet Long (Speaker), Louise Ellis (Speaker), Robyn Clay-Williams (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
16 Aug 2021 → 18 Aug 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation