Christopher Barton Email & Phone Number

Australia

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In this role I provide leadership to the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) and Department of General Practice (DGP) in areas of research training and research capacity building. I coordinate BMedSc Honours in the SPHPM and oversee delivery of an academic preparation and research training 'activity package' for the Royal Australian.

Notting Hill, Victoria

In this role I provided academic coordination, skills development and mentoring to undergraduate (e.g. honours) and postgraduate (e.g. PhD) research students and our department's Academic Post GP registrars. I oversaw delivery of an academic preparation and research training 'activity package' for the RACGP Academic Post program and worked extensively with.

In this role I provided leadership in research skills and researcher training in the School of Health Sciences at Flinders University. As Chair: Research Higher Degrees from 2014-2015 I established the Schools research higher degrees program. I completed a major overhaul of the BHS honours program and continued to teach quantitative methods in the BHS.

In this role I developed and then coordinated the topic Quantitative Methods for Social Health Research and taught into the related Qualitative Methods topic. Both topics were capstone topics in the Bachelor of Health Science at Flinders University. Between 2011 and 2013 I published 14 papers and was invited to take part in the Oxford Primary Care Research.

In this role I was employed to develop and run a qualitative study to provide supplemental and explanatory data to an RCT to determine the efficacy of the Flinders Model of Chronic Condition Self Management for older, community dwelling people with multiple chronic conditions.Key Publications:Masters S, Oliver-Baxter J, Barton C, Summers M, Howard S.

Working on the Deployment Health Surveillance Program, an initiative of the Australian Department of Defence to establish a health surveillance program for overseas deployed military personnel.Key Publications:Barton C, Treloar S, Dobson A, McClintock C, McFarlane AC. The Deployment Health Surveillance Program: Vision and challenges of health surveillance.

Post Doctoral Research training in Primary Health Care. This position was funded from a competitive research fellowship offered by Lubims Pty Ltd (now Unicare). My research focussed on management of asthma and other complex chronic illnesses in general practice. My paper on management of asthma in general practice is cited in the Australian National Asthma.

Phd, Epidemiology

Supported by a NHMRC Public Health scholarship my doctoral research comprised a series of inter-related studies investigating the impact.

Master Of Medical Science, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology, Physiology