Rate My Professor Francene Leaversuch

Francene Leaversuch is a Sessional Academic in the Curtin Medical School within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. Holding qualifications including MPH, PGDip Health Promotion, and BSc (Human Movement), she is a registered Health Promotion Practitioner with the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). Her research interests encompass drowning prevention and community development, with contributions to public health interventions addressing key issues such as youth vaping, skin infections in Aboriginal communities, and ethics in health promotion practice. Leaversuch has been affiliated with the School of Population Health and the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH) at Curtin University.

Leaversuch's scholarly output includes several peer-reviewed publications. Notable works are 'The school community's role in addressing vaping: Findings from qualitative research to inform pedagogy, practice and policy' (2024), which explores intervention strategies in Western Australian schools; 'Putting ethics at the centre of health promotion practice: lessons from Australia' (2025), focusing on ethical considerations in the field; 'Socio-ecological factors that influence youth vaping' (2024), examining influences on vaping uptake; 'A comparison of face-to-face and fully online problem-based learning: Student results and staff experiences, 2014–2020' (2022), evaluating educational delivery methods; 'A Review of Drowning Prevention Interventions for Children and Young People in High, Low and Middle Income Countries' (2016); 'Recreational Drowning Prevention Interventions for Adults, 1990–2012: A Review' (2015); and 'Development of a Systematic Review of Public Health Interventions to Prevent Children Drowning' (2014). These publications demonstrate her involvement in systematic reviews and qualitative research aimed at informing health promotion strategies and policies. Her work has been cited 188 times according to ResearchGate metrics.