Rate My Professor Tara Clinton-McHarg

Dr. Tara Clinton-McHarg is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She completed her PhD in Behavioural Science at the University of Newcastle in 2011, titled "Development and psychometric evaluation of a measure of perceived need for adolescents and young adults with cancer." She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts from the same university. Her professional career began at the University of Newcastle in 2010 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Health Behaviour Research Group, School of Medicine and Public Health. Over the years, she has held postdoctoral positions in the HNE Population Health Research Group (2014-2017), Physical Health in Mental Illness Research Group, School of Psychology (2017-2019), and served as Lecturer in the School of Psychology (2019-2021). She is currently a Post-doctoral Researcher in the National Centre of Implementation Science and maintains an honorary senior lecturing role. Additionally, she serves as a Senior Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne.

Clinton-McHarg's research focuses on implementation science, evaluation, psychometrics, health promotion, and population health, particularly in areas such as chronic disease prevention, psychosocial support for cancer patients and caregivers, and physical health care for individuals with mental health conditions. Her Google Scholar profile shows over 2,667 citations. Notable publications include "Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease" (2017, 234 citations), "Psychometric properties of implementation measures for public health and community settings" (2016, 129 citations), "The unfulfilled promise: a systematic review of interventions to reduce the unmet supportive care needs of cancer patients" (2012, 202 citations), and "Prevalence and correlates of the unmet supportive care needs of individuals diagnosed with a haematological malignancy" (2015, 103 citations). She has authored or co-authored 78 journal articles and supervised 11 postgraduate students to completion. As an investigator, she has contributed to grants exceeding $2.1 million, including NHMRC Partnership Projects for cancer distress screening and lung cancer support trials.