Ms Sue Brennan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Sue Brennan joined the Australasian Cochrane Centre in 2002 on a part-time secondment to prepare summaries of the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews for policy makers in the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. As the Centre's Policy Liaison Officer (2003-04), she was responsible for establishing and coordinating a program designed to help policy makers use Cochrane reviews to inform health policy and research agendas.

Sue is currently undertaking her doctorate on Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI); the overall aim of the project being to develop a research framework that will improve our ability to understand and measure the effect of CQI on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Her other research interests include the use of evidence by policy makers and the effectiveness of strategies designed to increase the uptake of evidence for decision making in health policy.

Sue has an honours degree in Science and a Graduate Diploma of Education.

Qualifications

GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF EDUCATION

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1994

SCIENCE (HONS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1990

Publications

Journal Articles

Brennan, S.E., Bosch, M.C., Buchan, H.A., Green, S.E., 2012, Measuring organizational and individual factors thought to influence the success of quality improvement in primary care: a systematic review of instruments, Implementation Science [P], vol 7, issue 1 (Art. ID: 121), BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-19.

Brennan, S.E., McKenzie, J.E., Whitty, P., Buchan, H.H., Green, S.E., 2009, Continuous quality improvement: Effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews [P], vol 5.182, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, UK, pp. 1-17.