BA (Hons)

Lecturer and Joint Community Engagement Co-ordinator

Research Interests

Environmental health, social capital and community building, community engagement, inter-professional education, water management and public health, health sociology, flexible education.

Jess is the joint co-ordinator of Community Engagament at the UDRH and is currently involved in a number of community health mapping and needs assessments across the State. She also sits on the Statewide Department of Health and Human Services Consumer and Community Engagement Reference Group.

Teaching

Jess has been involved in the ongoing development and expansion of the Rural Inter-Professional Program Emergency Retreat (RIPPER), a program for Medical, Nursing and Pharmacy students in the final years of their undergraduate careers within the Faculty of Health Science. She also teaches and supervises under the PHCRED program in the area of research design and practice. Jess is also assisting in the redevelopment and teaching of parts of the Health Informatics Course offered through the UDRH.

Units

• CRH506 - Understanding Health Informatics Research
  
• CRH507 - Health Informatics Research Methods
  

Selected Publications:

• Whelan, J, Spencer, J and Dalton L , 2009, 'Building Rural Health Care Teams through Interprofessional Simulation-Based education', National Rural health Conference, Cairns
• Whelan, J, Spencer, J and Rooney, K , 2008, 'A “RIPPER” Project: Advancing Rural Interprofessional Health Education at the University of Tasmania', The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health, 8, pgs. 1017
• Auckland ,S, Whelan, J, Barrett, A and Skellern, K , 2007, 'Mapping Community Health Needs and Priorities', The Australian Journal of University Community Engagement , 2 (1) Spring , pgs. 237-245
• Whelan, J and Willis, K , 2007, 'Problems with Provision: Barriers to Drinking Water Quality and Public Health in Tasmania, Australia', The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health, 7 (online):627
• Whelan, J , 2005, 'Neo-Liberal Water Policy and Socio-Environmental Harm ', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16 (3), pgs. 286- 293
• Jessica Whelan and Rob White, 2005, 'Does Privatising Water Make Us Sick? ', Health Sociology Review , 14 (2) , pgs. 135-145
• Whelan, J and Willis, K, 2007, 'Problems with Provision: Barriers to Drinking Water Quality and Public Health in Rural Tasmania', International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health (in press)

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• Rural Community Needs Analysis
• Campbell Town Health and Community Service Catchment Health Mapping Project
• Building effective partnerships for rural health service
• Meander Valley Community Needs Assessment
• Furneaux Group Community Health Needs Assessment
• Community Cancer Needs Profile Circular Head Local Government Area Project
• Rural Inter-Professional Program Emergency Retreat (RIPPER)