Professor John Lowe
BSc Texas, CertBiomedComm Texas, MPubHlth Texas, DPubHlth Texas
Position: Head, School of Health and Sport Sciences
Email: jlowe@usc.edu.au
Personal Assistant: Ms Sally Nimmo
Office: T.4.11
Tel: +61 7 5459 4752
Fax: +61 7 5430 2896
Email: snimmo@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Behavioural Medicine
- Health Promotion
- Health Communication
- Research Design
Research areas
- cancer prevention and control
- smoking cessation and prevention
- health promotion
- alcohol and drug abuse
- behavioural medicine
- media
Profile
Professor John Lowe’s research interests are in cancer control and prevention and injury prevention. Since 1980, he has worked in the area of intervention studies for the cessation of smoking among adults, pregnant women, and the prevention and cessation of smoking among youth. He is internationally known for his work in the area of skin cancer prevention. Professor Lowe continues to focus his research on community development and empowerment to make sustainable long-term changes to promote health.
Previous posts include Professor and Head of the Department of Community and Behavioural Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa in the USA, Director, Cancer Prevention Research Centre, Unversity of Quensland and also held the position of Associate Director for Population Science of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Centre. Professor Lowe previously directed two research centres, the CDC funded Iowa Prevention Research Centre and the Iowa Tobacco Research Centre.
Professor Lowe received his doctorate in Community Health/Behavioural Science from the University of Texas Health Science Centre, School of Public Health. He is a fellow of both the Australia Health Promotion Association and the American Academy of Health Behaviour. Professor Lowe was previously Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health and prior to that, Editor of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. He is currently Senior Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Professor Lowe has also been appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council Academy (Australia) in 2010.
Publications
Many of Professor John Lowe's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Research projects
- Smoking cessation among Indigenous Australians
- Equine Flu among Horse owners in Queensland
- Determinants of binge drinking in adolescents
- Self-harm among adolescents
- Relapse prevention from smoking amont pregnant women
- Effects of the physical environment and nutrition
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