Prof John Macdonald

• Qualifications
• Biography
• Research
• Selected Publications
• Grants/Current projects
• Teaching Interests
• Professional Activities
  

Qualifications

PhD, MEd, DipCD

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Biography

Professor John Macdonald was born in Scotland. John has 10 years experience in Zambia in Primary Health Care and education. In 1979 John became the Director of Education for Primary Health Care in Manchester and Bristol Universities and held this role until 1996 when he took up the role of Foundation Chair in Primary Health Care at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). John is currently the Director of the Men's Health Information & Resource Centre at UWS. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine, since 1994.

During his career, John has gained advisory and teaching experience in Pakistan, Nicaragua, South Africa, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, India, Hong Kong, Senegal, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

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Research

1999 - ongoing. Men's Health Information and Resource Centre: Addressing unmet need of men's health promoting research and programs NSW Health.

2008 - ongoing. Frail Older Men's Access and Use of Home and Community Care (HACC) Services Researching frail older men's experience of HACC services, NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care.

2008 - ongoing. Stopping the Revolving Door: Experience of Aboriginal Men out of prison. Private Benefactor and the University of Western Sydney.

2000 - 2007. Engaging men in the health system, In depth analysis of men and health and health services in Western Sydney NSW Health.

2001 - 2003. Research on men's perceptions of health and health services Collect men's views on health and health services. Wentworth Area Health Service, Hawkesbury Division of GPs.

2001 - 2008. Pilot longitudinal study of boys and men's health: basis for study of health over time of boys and men. NSW Health.

2001. Research on Older Men and Healthy Ageing: Insights into older men's perceptions of health, Older Men New Ideas (OMNI). Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing.

2001. Hey Dad! Program promoting culturally appropriate support for fathering. Mercy Family Centre. Waitara.

2001. Research on gay men's views on health and health services: Non-disease approach to gay men's health and their perception of health needs. UWS internal funding.

1999 - 2001. Health Promoting Early Childhood Centres (ECC) program: Research into improvement of health promotion in ECC's WSTRI.
Sydney Water DOCS Families First.

International Research Activities:

2009 - ongoing. Men's Experience in Palestine: A study of men's experience of domestic violence in Palestine.  Conducted with colleagues from the University of Birzeit, Palestine.

Primary Care and Public Health (UK). This research looked at innovative Primary Health Care practice in the UK. It is funded by the Public Health Alliance.

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Selected Publications

Macdonald, J.J. (2005). Environments for Health. London, Earthscan.

Macdonald, J.J. (1994). Primary Health Care Medicine in its Place. London, Earthscan.

Hayden, J., and Macdonald, J.J. (2004). Promoting Health in Early Childhood Settings. In Moodie, R. and Hulme, A. (Eds), Hands on Health Promotion. Melbourne, IP Communications.

Macdonald, J.J., Crawford, D., Gibbs, L., and Oliffe, J. (2004). Promoting Men's Health. In Moodie, R. and Hulme, A. (Eds), Hands on Health Promotion. Melbourne, IP Communications.

Refereed Journal Articles
Monaem, A., Macdonald, J.J., Woods, M., Hughes, R., Orchard, M., and Jasprizza, E. (2008). A proposed longitudinal study of boys' and men's health and well-being in Greater Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Men's Health 7(2): 192(18).

Monaem, A., Woods, M., Macdonald, J.J., Hughes, R., and Orchard, M. (2007). Engaging men in the health system: observations from service providers. Australian Health Review 31(2): 211-217.

Macdonald, J.J. (2007). Primary Health Care or Primary Medical Care: In Reality. Australian Journal of Primary Health 13(2): 14-19.

Macdonald, J.J., Millan, G., and Adams, M. (2006). Men's health: Indigenous and non-Indigenous men getting together. Medical Journal of Australia 185(8): 416-417.

Macdonald, J.J. (2006). Shifting paradigms: a social determinants approach to solving problems in men's health policy and practice. Medical Journal of Australia 185(8): 456-458.

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Grants/Current projects

2003 - ongoing. Building Resilience in Men in Western Sydney Suicide Prevention Project, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

2000 - 2001. 4th National Men's Health Conference (September 2001), Bi-annual national event highlighting men's health. Commonwealth Government, NSW State Government.

2000 - 2001. National Aboriginal Men's Health Convention Bi-annual event preceding the above (both hosted at UWS Hawkesbury). Federal Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Health, Aboriginal Branch NSW Health.

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Teaching Interests

• Involvement in Bachelor of Health Sciences
• Unit Coordinator, Masters in Public Health and Unit Developer, Contemporary Issues in Public Health, Public Health Policy and Society, and A Global Perspective on the Social Determinants of Health
• Development of a Men's Health online postgraduate unit for NSW College of Nursing
• Development of Diploma and Masters in Primary Health Care and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine.

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Professional Activities

• Chair Peer-review Committee, College of Health and Science UWS
• President, Australasian Men's Health Forum
• Patron, Australian Men's Sheds Association
• Men's Health Ambassador (National Men's Health Policy), Federal Government 2009
  

Editorships:

• 1998 - present. Member, Editorial Board Australian Journal of Primary Health Care Interchange
• 2000 - present. Member, Editorial Board Primary Health Care, Research and Development (U.K)
• 2001 present. Member, Editorial Board International Journal of Men's Health (Harvard, U.S.A)