Congratulations to EISU members A/Prof Lucio Naccarella and Lucy Boyd, MSPGH award recipients

Lucio (left) and Lucy (right) pictured with Prof Nancy Baxter after receiving their awards
Photo: Lucio (left) and Lucy (right) pictured with Prof Nancy Baxter after receiving their awards.

Late last year the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH) held their annual awards ceremony to celebrate the incredible and diverse achievements of individuals and teams within the school. There are several awards and categories ranging from academic admin awards to best research paper by discipline.

Two EISU members received an award, Associate Professor Lucio Naccarella and Lucy Boyd.

A/Prof Lucio Naccarella was awarded the Teaching award for Program Innovation. Prof Naccarella is a health services researcher, evaluator and implementation science specialist with a focus on 5 key areas:

  1. Building evaluation capability;
  2. Designing health workforce and digital health models;
  3. Supporting population health and health literacy initiatives;
  4. Leading healthcare environment evaluations; and
  5. Building implementation science capability.

Lucio’s Teaching award was for his new MPH Healthcare Environment Evaluation elective subject. The subject emerged from an increased recognition that the complex, dynamic, interdisciplinary and multi-purpose nature of healthcare environments, calls for a deeper and more critical understanding of its key dimensions (physical workspaces design, virtual work-spaces and leadership & management practices) for evaluating healthcare environments. The subject is delivered as a 4-day intensive featuring academic and design industry guest presenters, with experiential immersive work-integrated learning opportunities for students within healthcare environments (e.g., Residential Aged Care).

Lucy Boyd received the Research Achievement Award for Research Support. Miss Boyd is a health services researcher, with a focus on implementation and evaluation and strong interests in cancer and equity. Since joining the EIS team in April 2022, Lucy has shown an exemplary work ethic, flexibility, capability, resilience and an incredible ability to organise and manage the project, as well as contribute to other projects and organisational tasks to support the Unit in an enthusiastic and professional manner.

Lucy’s award was for coordinating the Maximising Cancer Screening Program Evaluation, subcontracted by the Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer from the Victorian Department of Health. This project and evaluation exceeded the scope of what we had anticipated would be required, both in terms of time commitment and complexity, as the project scaled up from the pilot project to a statewide project involving 5 primary health networks (PHNs).

Thank you to all that made these awards possible including those who nominated their colleagues, the selection panels, and associated staff.