Professor Stephanie D. Short PhD, MSc (Ec), BA Hons, Dip Physio

1999-03, NSW Department of Health, as infrastructure funding for the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation, School of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW and South Western Sydney Area Health Service (associate member, CHETRE)

1996, UNSW Faculty of Professional Studies, Research Management Committee to conduct research on ‘The Genesis and Development of Consumer Health Groups in Australia 1987-92’.

1994, UNSW Faculty of Professional Studies, Research Management Committee, to conduct a national survey on ‘The Glass Escalator and Men in Nursing Academe’.

1994, UNSW Central Quality Funds for Appointment of a Women’s Research Development Officer, responsible to the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and International) and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (member of the Women in Research Committee).

1993, UNSW Office of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and International) to direct a research consultancy on ‘Raising the Productivity of Women Researchers at UNSW’ (founding member, Women in Research Committee).

1993, UNSW through the School of Health Services Management to develop the course proposal for a professional doctorate in health services management at UNSW.

1992, Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health through the National Better Health Program, to establish and oversee The National Reference Centre for Continuing Education for Primary Health Care (member of the Alliance awarded the tender).

1992, National Health & Medical Research Council, Public Health Research & Development Committee, to conduct Consumer Research and Development Workshops in 1992-93 in New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania (member, Consumers’ Health Forum of Australia’s Research and Development Committee).

1992, UNSW Faculty of Professional Studies Research Management Committee to conduct a pilot study on ‘Consumer Reconstructions of Health Knowledge.’

1992, University of Wollongong Research Grants Committee, to investigate the ‘Relevance of sociology to nursing’.

1991, University of Wollongong Research Grants Committee, ‘Reconstructions of health knowledge’.

De Voe, J.E. and Short, S.D. (2003) A Shift in the Historical Trajectory of Medical Dominance: The Case of Medibank and the Australian Doctors’ Lobby, Social Science and Medicine, 57: 343-353.

Smith, P. M., Short, S.D. and C. A. Mustard, (2002) Gender Differences in Occupational Position and Declines in Self-Rated Health Status, Working Paper # 178, Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, Canada

Palmer, G.R. and Short, S.D. (2000) Health Care and Public Policy: An Australian Analysis, Macmillan, Melbourne, 3rd edition

Taggart, A.V., Short, S. D. and Barclay L. (2000) “She Has Made Me Feel Human Again”: An Evaluation of a Volunteer Home-based Visiting Project for Mothers’, Health and Social Care in the Community. 8: 1: 1–8

Short, S.D. (2000) Should Public Health Experts Listen to the People or Tell Them What to Think and Do? Yes and No, More or Less, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 24: 5: 550-1

Turner, L. and Short, S. D. (1999) George Rupert Palmer – DRG Carrier and Champion, Australian Health Review, 22: 2: 86–102

Johnston, G. M. and Short, S. D. (1999) Patient Some More: Breast Cancer Initiatives in Canada and Australia, 1990-96, Australian Canadian Studies, 17: 1: 21–40.

Short, S.D. (1997) Elective Affinities: Research and Health Policy Development, in H. Gardner (ed) Health Policy in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.

Australian Sociological Association

British Sociological Association

International Sociological Association,

Public Health Association of Australia

Federation of Australian University Women

Registered Physiotherapist, NSW

1997-present The Asia Pacific Network of the International Forum for Social Sciences in Health

2000-2003 Committee, Health Consumers’ Network (NSW) Inc.(nominee of Council of Social Service of New South Wales)

1999-2003 South Eastern Area Health Service, Effective Therapeutics Committee.

1998-2003 New South Wales Council of Social Service (NCOSS), Health Policy Advice Group.

1998-2003 Centre for Health Equity, Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE), Associate Member. South Western Sydney Area Health Service and the School of Community Medicine at UNSW. Responsibilities include the provision of research training, postgraduate course development and research advice.

1995-2003 New South Wales Social Justice Reference Group (SJRG). SJRG is the Government’s main source of community advice on social justice. It reports to the Premier, the Hon R J Carr MP, through the Deputy Premier, the Hon. A. J. Refshauge MP on matters referred to it by Government.