Associate Professor Jane Desborough
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Contacts
Biography
Associate Professor Jane Desborough (DAppScNursing; GDipMid; MPH, PhD) is a Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. She is a mixed methods researcher, who works closely with patients, clinicians and policy makers to conduct research that is responsive to their needs and preferences, and targets quality and outcomes improvement.
Jane holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2022 for which she is examining the experiences and preferences of Australian families and individuals on low, middle, and high incomes in managing the OOP costs of chronic disease.
Jane leads the Health Experience and Health Services Research Group in the Department of Health Economics, Wellbeing and Society. Her research team is comprised of academics, clinicians and health care consumers - providing many lenses of expertise to inform her research. The composition of the team is aimed at embedding the experiences and perspectives of people living with health conditions into the research from inception to implementation.
From March 2020 to November Jane worked on secondment to the Australian Government Department of Health as an Action Researcher alongside the COVID-19 Primary Care Response Group. This work included undertaking rapid reviews and evidence synthesis to inform policy decision making, and description and publication of the COVID-19 policy response for the academic record.
Jane is a registered nurse and midwife, and has worked clinically in a variety of settings for 25 years, including remote area nursing. Before moving to academia, Jane worked as a Senior Policy Officer at the ACT Health Directorate in the Office of the ACT Chief Nurse.
Research
Research interests
- Patient, family, carer and clinicians' experiences and perspectives
- Consumer engagement and coproduction research
- Patient enablement
- Primary health care
- Quality measurement in health care
- Knowledge translation
Groups
Projects
- Principal investigator, Missed opportunities in clinical practice: Tools to enhance healthcare providers’ awareness and diagnosis of rare diseases in Australia
- Principal investigator, Our Health In Our Hands - personalised medicine transforming health care
- Researcher, A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Implementation of ‘The Patient Enablement Model’
- Researcher, A systematic review of the literature examining the relative efficacy of peridischarge strategies to reduce unplanned 30-day readmission rates after knee and hip arthroplasty
- Researcher, ANU Telehealth in Primary Care Study
- Researcher, Developing technologies to support patients’ transition from acute to primary care: enabling orthopaedic patients and preventing unplanned 30-day readmissions.
- Supervisor, An exploration of the experiences and perceptions of young people with type 1 diabetes mellitus and their parents regarding young people’s transition to independent self-management
- Supervisor, Preferences of people with chronic disease and the trade-offs they are willing to make when deciding how to manage out-of-pocket health costs: a discrete choice experiment
- Supervisor, Systematic review of patient autonomy and preferences related to genomics
- Contact, The Real Price of Health: Experiences of Out-of-Pocket Costs in Australia