Rate My Professor Krysten Blackford

Dr. Krysten Blackford is a Senior Lecturer and Teaching and Research Academic in the Curtin School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Curtin University. She holds a PhD (2017), BSc (Health Promotion) with Honours (2013), and BSc (Health Promotion) and BSc (Nutrition) (2012), all obtained from Curtin University. As a researcher affiliated with the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH), she serves as Coordinator for undergraduate health promotion courses and teaches health promotion and public health units. Her research specializations encompass equitable, ethical, and evidence-informed health promotion, with emphasis on workforce development, ethical practice, intervention evaluation, metabolic syndrome prevention in rural Australian adults, housing insecurity and health outcomes among culturally and linguistically diverse migrants, pharmacists' roles in health behavior change, and health promotion competencies in students.

Dr. Blackford's career includes significant leadership as a Board Member of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA), Chair of AHPA’s Health Promotion Ethics Project Working Group and Health Promotion Teaching and Learning Community of Practice, and Digital Strategy Lead for AHPA’s Research, Evaluation and Evidence Translation Committee. She is an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Major awards include the 2025 Curtin Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (team lead), 2022 Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award for Individual Teacher, 2016 Health Promotion Department Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching, and Excellence in Health Promotion Leadership Award. Key publications are 'Effects of a home-based intervention on diet and physical activity behaviours for rural adults with or at risk of metabolic syndrome: a randomised controlled trial' (2016), 'A preliminary analysis of "Passport to practice": investigating development of core competencies in undergraduate health promotion students' (2024), 'Housing Insecurity and Health Outcomes Among Migrants from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review' (2026), 'Putting ethics at the centre of health promotion practice: lessons from Australia' (2025), and 'Pharmacists’ Barriers and Enablers to Delivering Health Behaviour Recommendations for Patients with Behavioural Determinants of Disease: Application of the COM-B Model' (2025). Her contributions advance health promotion education, ethical standards, and public health interventions.