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10469
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2580
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186

Overview

Lisa Gibbs is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research portfolio primarily focused on the intersection of social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their work addresses themes related to disaster response and management, mental health, resilience, and community well-being.

The scientist's research spans several main fields of study including Social Sciences, Psychology, and Health Professions, with significant contributions to subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Emergency Medical Services, General Health Professions, and Health.

Key topics in their research include:

  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Recent publications highlight a focus on mental health outcomes and youth participation in health equity. Notable papers include:

  • Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors (2022), published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • Youth Participatory Approaches and Health Equity: Conceptualization and Integrative Review (2020), published in American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Using Technology to Scale up Youth-Led Participatory Action Research: A Systematic Review (2020), published in Journal of Adolescent Health
  • The dynamic course of psychological outcomes following the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires (2020), published in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Preschool Aged Children's Accounts of their Own Wellbeing: are Current Wellbeing Indicators Applicable to Young Children? (2020), published in Child Indicators Research

Frequent co-authors in their research include Karen Block, Louise Harms, Margaret Hellard, Phoebe Quinn, and Katitza Marinkovic Chavez.

Lisa Gibbs has published extensively in venues such as the Australian Journal of Emergency Management, BMC Public Health, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, American Journal of Community Psychology, and Journal of Dentistry.

Best Publications

  • Generating best evidence from qualitative research: the role of data analysis

    Julie Green;Karen Willis;Emma Hughes;Rhonda Small

  • The WHO Health Promoting School framework for improving the health and well‐being of students and their academic achievement

    Rebecca Langford;Christopher P Bonell;Hayley E Jones;Theodora Pouliou

  • The World Health Organization's Health Promoting Schools framework: a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Rebecca Langford;Christopher Bonell;Hayley Jones;Theodora Pouliou

  • Supporting schools to create an inclusive environment for refugee students

    Karen Block;Suzanne Cross;Elisha Riggs;Lisa Gibbs

  • Addressing Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Research with Refugee-background Young People: Reflections from the Field

    Karen Block;Deborah Warr;Lisa Gibbs;Elisha Riggs

  • Parent-proxy and child self-reported health-related quality of life: using qualitative methods to explain the discordance

    Elise Davis;Caroline Nicolas;Elizabeth Waters;Kay Cook

  • Increasing school playground physical activity: A mixed methods study combining environmental measures and children's perspectives

    Lisa J. Willenberg;Rosie Ashbolt;Dionne Holland;Lisa Gibbs

  • Accessing maternal and child health services in Melbourne, Australia: Reflections from refugee families and service providers

    Elisha Riggs;Elise Davis;Lisa Gibbs;Karen Block

  • Psychological outcomes following the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires

    Richard A Bryant;Richard A Bryant;Elizabeth Waters;Lisa Gibbs;H Colin Gallagher

  • Expanding Children’s Food Experiences: The Impact of a School-Based Kitchen Garden Program

    Lisa Gibbs;Petra K. Staiger;Britt Johnson;Karen Block

  • Growing Community: The Impact of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program on the Social and Learning Environment in Primary Schools

    Karen Block;Lisa Gibbs;Petra K Staiger;Lisa Gold

  • What have sampling and data collection got to do with good qualitative research

    Lisa Gibbs;Michelle Kealy;Karen Willis;Julie Green

  • Delayed Disaster Impacts on Academic Performance of Primary School Children

    Lisa Gibbs;Jane Nursey;Janette Cook;Greg Ireton

  • Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors.

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  • The Health Promoting Schools Framework: Known Unknowns and an Agenda for Future Research:

    R M Langford;Christopher P Bonell;Kelli A Komro;Simon Murphy

  • Temporal development of the oral microbiome and prediction of early childhood caries.

    S. G. Dashper;H. L. Mitchell;K.-A. Lê Cao;L. Carpenter

  • Mental Health and Social Networks After Disaster

    Richard A Bryant;H Colin Gallagher;Lisa Gibbs;Philippa Pattison

  • Youth Participatory Approaches and Health Equity: Conceptualization and Integrative Review

    Emily J Ozer;Michelle Abraczinskas;Catherine Duarte;Ruchika Mathur

  • Jamie's Ministry of Food: quasi-experimental evaluation of immediate and sustained impacts of a cooking skills program in Australia.

    Anna Flego;Jessica Herbert;Elizabeth Waters;Lisa Gibbs

  • Wider impacts of a 10-week community cooking skills program - Jamie’s Ministry of Food, Australia

    Jessica Herbert;Anna Flego;Lisa Gibbs;Elizabeth Waters

  • The essential role of social theory in qualitative public health research

    Karen Willis;Jeanne Daly;Michelle Kealy;Rhonda Small

  • Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and Recovery - a longitudinal mixed method study of the medium to long term impacts of bushfires on mental health and social connectedness

    Lisa Gibbs;Elizabeth Waters;Richard A Bryant;Philippa Pattison

  • Psychological outcomes following the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires: Social connections and psychological outcomes

    H. C. Gallagher;L. Gibbs;E. Waters;K. Block

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Dean Lusher
Dean Lusher Swinburne University of Technology
David Forbes
David Forbes University of Melbourne
Philippa Pattison
Philippa Pattison University of Sydney
Peter Kremer
Peter Kremer Deakin University
Simon Murphy
Simon Murphy Cardiff University
Laurence Moore
Laurence Moore University of Glasgow
Rona Campbell
Rona Campbell University of Bristol
Katrina Williams
Katrina Williams University of Melbourne

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