Professor Lena Sanci is the Head of Department, Director of Teaching and Learning, and co-lead of the Children and Young People's Research Stream, Department of General Practice (DGP), University of Melbourne. She was also a Research Program Leader in the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre (2011-2016) which researched the potential of technology to improve the mental health and clinical service system for youth.
She has been a CI on 5 RCTs of health service interventions in primary care, including leading a large randomised trial in general practice of an intervention re-orientating primary care toward a young person-centred, preventive care model, using evidence based strategies for learning and change in practice-systems and clinical practice. Lena is CI on 3 current NHMRC CREs on family violence, adolescent health and childhood adversity.
Lena is a GP with a commitment to improving the health and well-being of children and young people through primary care, and its integration with other parts of the health, education, and welfare sectors. She is the expert advisor to the Victorian Government on the GPs in secondary schools program and lead provider of clinical training in youth-friendly care for GPs and nurses involved in the program. Other recent work includes the development of an online program to assist young people to navigate their way to appropriate services for their health and well-being concerns.
She oversees the Department’s Primary Care Network of around 1000 practices of which over 450 are actively teaching at any one time and over 200 are involved in research projects with the department; 100 of these practices are also part of the Victorian practice based Research Network (VicRen). She works clinically at Family Planning Victoria’s Action Centre (teen sexual and reproductive health clinic).
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FEATURED Journal article
Strengthening respiratory protection from SARS-CoV-2 in certain general practice contexts.
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SHOULD MEDICARE FUND A REBATE FOR AN ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG PERSON’S HEALTH ASSESSMENT IN G..
Research Grant
Young people are anxious about coronavirus. Political leaders need to talk with them, not ..
NEWS ARTICLE
What's the catch? Urine sample collection from young pre-continent children: a qualitative..
Journal article
BRINGING FAMILY, COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND COUNTRY TO THE CENTRE OF HEALTH CARE: CULTURALLY A..
Research Grant
Freezing out the folks: default My Health Record settings don't protect teens' privacy
NEWS ARTICLE
Patient-delivered partner therapy for chlamydia in Australia: can it become part of routin..
Journal article
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Projects
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Project Types
107
Research Contracts
24
Research Grant
Additional Information
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Public Health Postdoctoral Training Research Fellowship awarded 2004
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre Early Intervention or Prevention Research Award for oral presentation
The only non-American to win this award since its inception in the 1980s
For PhD study
For PhD study (2.5 years)
For MD studies
FRACGP - Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Chair Of General Practice
General Practice
Member
Australian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC)
Member
National Divisions Youth Alliance Network
Member
Public Health Association of Victoria
Member
Society for Adolescent Medicine (USA)
Member
Australian Medical Association
Diplomate
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery
University of Melbourne