Improving the design and implementation of evidence-based practice depends on effective behaviour change interventions. Such interventions have had variable success. Behaviour change remains a formidable challenge, and we lack a clear understanding of effective techniques (“what works?) and mechanisms of change (“how do they work?”) across behaviours, populations and settings. To develop more effective interventions, we need to improve our scientific methods. This talk presents new methods for analysing the targeted behaviour (“COM-B”), specifying the content of behaviour change interventions (“taxonomies of behaviour change techniques”) and for linking them with intervention functions and policy categories (the “Behaviour Change Wheel”).
Professor Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology at University College London, UK. She is a chartered clinical and health psychologist, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the European Health Psychology Society and the British Psychological Society.
She leads UCL’s Health Psychology Research Group studying behaviour change in relation to health: how to understand it theoretically and how to develop more effective interventions. Her work develops methods to advance the study of behaviour change e.g. for specifying the content and theoretical underpinning of interventions and for synthesising evidence. This is conducted in the domains of professional practice and implementation, and risky and preventive behaviours amongst patients and the general population.
Professor Michie is co-Director of the UK’s National Health Service’s Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training and was a consultant to the Department of Health advising on public health policy and practice, 2004-2010. She is a member of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee of NICE (National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence), and of its Implementation Strategy Group. She is on several international advisory boards, including Knowledge Translation Canada and the Implementation Research Institute, USA.
She chairs the Behaviour and Communications Group of the UK Government’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee. Her editorial work includes Associate Editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Implementation Science and British Journal of Health Psychology and Editorial Boards of Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being and Health Psychology Review.
She holds over 20 research grants and has published 180 peer-reviewed journal articles.
When
05 August 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Where
Bond University
Gregor Heiner Theatre, level 3
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
Contact Information
Assistant Professor Chrissy Erueti
Phone: +61 7 5595 4482
Fax: +61 7 5595 1271
