Rate My Professor Natalie Johnson

Dr. Johnson's research encompasses health promotion and behavioural epidemiology. She has contributed to NHMRC-funded randomised controlled trials, including one testing the efficacy of counselling by an exercise physiologist on physical activity levels of insufficiently active primary care patients (2011-2013, $896,589) and another testing an electronic screening and brief intervention program on alcohol consumption among hospital outpatients with hazardous or harmful drinking (2012-2015, $370,169). Her current focus is on the health and wellbeing of university students, particularly higher degree research students. Key publications include Luu et al. (2026) 'The impact of mandatory work-integrated learning placements on university student wellbeing in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: a scoping review' in Studies in Higher Education; van Kessel et al. (2025) 'Relationship between university belonging and student outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis' in Australian Educational Researcher; Hutchesson et al. (2025) 'Priorities for research on improving health behaviours for optimal mental health of Australian university students: A twin-panel Delphi study' in Health Promotion Journal of Australia; Mogre et al. (2020) 'Barriers to self-care and their association with poor adherence to self-care behaviours in people with type 2 diabetes in Ghana: A cross sectional study' in Obesity Medicine; and Dundas et al. (2019) 'Does Increasing the Experiential Component Improve Efficacy of the "This Is Public Health" Photo Essay Task? A Nonrandomized Trial' in Pedagogy in Health Promotion. She coordinates and teaches large undergraduate public health courses, including PUBH1030 Foundations of K-6 PDHPE and PUBH1080 Studies in Population Health and Health Promotion.