PhD Scholarship Development of a digital consumer-focused intervention in community pharmacy to increase access to contraceptionDrive your own learning at one of the worlds top 80 universitiesTake your career in exciting, rewarding directionsAbout the projectIn Australia, 40% of women experience an unintended pregnancy during their lifetime and one in three of these results in abortion. These unintended pregnancies may be due to non-use or inconsistent use of contraception or contraceptive failure. Women in Australia may also have limited knowledge of their contraceptive options or encounter misinformation that can negatively impact on contraceptive uptake.Community pharmacists can play an important role in increasing access to contraception. Many women perceive pharmacy as an appropriate health care setting to obtain more information about contraception and pharmacists are willing and interested to provide this care. This project will involve the development, implementation and evaluation of a video animation that seeks to empower women to choose and request contraception in a pharmacy setting. The video will be co-designed with consumers and key stakeholders and piloted in community pharmacies. This pilot study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of this approach for use in a larger scale study.SPHERE and Monash UniversityThe successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary cohort of researchers and students based at the SPHERE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Womens Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care. SPHEREs focus is on improving access to and the quality of womens sexual and reproductive health care services particularly in the areas of preconception care, contraception, medical abortion services and endometriosis and pelvic pain diagnosis and management in primary care. For more information about the important work that SPHERE does, please visit the website.SPHERE is located at the Department of General Practice at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and is part of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) at Monash University.Monash University is a member of Australias Group of Eight coalition, and is internationally recognized for excellence in research and teaching as one of the world''s top 80 universities. Embedded in an ecosystem of health, academia and industry, it delivers the research outcomes, skilled workforce, technology and partnerships to improve human health locally and globally.Professor Mazza is the Head of the Department of General Practice at Monash University and a nationally and internationally recognised leader in implementation research and knowledge translation in the general practice setting. She has made significant, sustained and ongoing contributions to advance general practice and primary health care in Australia in the field of womens sexual and reproductive health and as a proponent of evidence-based quality improvement through guideline development and implementation. She leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care (SPHERE), which aims to improve the quality, safety, and capacity of primary health care services to achieve better outcomes in womens sexual and reproductive health.Application RequirementsTo express your interest in this scholarship and PhD research opportunity, we request candidates provide:A cover letter describing your research interests and why you would like to undertake a PhD (maximum one page)A CV including qualifications, academic achievements, list of publications, work history and referencesApplications Close: Sunday 2 March 2025, 11:55pm AEDTMonash University recognises that its Australian campuses are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin nations, and pays its respects to their elders, past and present. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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PhD Scholarship Development of a digital consumer-focused intervention in commun