Rate My Professor Tameka McFadyen

Dr Tameka McFadyen serves as a Senior Lecturer in the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, within the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor - Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. She is a passionate educator and early career researcher who earned her PhD in Behavioural Sciences from the University of Newcastle in 2021, along with a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics from the same institution. Her work focuses on critical approaches to education and addressing equity issues in community, health, and education settings through individual behaviour change and organisational change.

Dr McFadyen's research interests encompass behaviour change, co-design, health equity, implementation science, and public health, with fields of research distributed as health equity (40%), implementation science and evaluation (20%), public health not elsewhere classified (20%), and health promotion (20%). She contributes to the Thurru Indigenous Health Unit in the School of Medicine and Public Health. Her key publications include Hall et al., 'A bibliographic review of sustainability research output and investment in 10 leading public health journals across three time periods', Public Health in Practice (2023); Doherty et al., 'Iterative delivery of an implementation support package to increase and sustain the routine provision of antenatal care addressing alcohol consumption during pregnancy: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster trial', BMJ Open (2022); Tremain et al., 'The provision of preventive care for modifiable health risk behaviours by clinicians within substance use treatment settings: A systematic review', Preventive Medicine (2020); McFadyen et al., 'Sustaining the implementation of alcohol management practices by community sports clubs: A randomised control trial', BMC Public Health (2019); McFadyen et al., 'Alcohol management practices in community sporting clubs: Validation of an online self-report tool', Drug and Alcohol Review (2018); and McFadyen et al., 'Strategies to improve the implementation of policies, practices or programmes in sporting organisations targeting poor diet, physical inactivity, obesity, risky alcohol use or tobacco use: a systematic review', BMJ Open (2018). These publications underscore her contributions to public health intervention sustainability and preventive strategies.