Professor Meredith Temple-Smith is the Director of Research Training in the Department of General Practice. Primarily a qualitative researcher, her interests centre on sexual health, hepatitis C, and health services research.
She is currently a Chief Investigator on a substantial suite of projects examining ways to improve and sustain Chlamydia testing in the general practice setting, based on the Australian Chlamydia Control Effectiveness Pilot (ACCEPt), a cluster randomised controlled trial of chlamydia testing in general practice. She is also a CI on subsequent grants which are evaluating this intervention and its sustainability in 54 rural towns and 150 practices. She has written or co-written over 100 peer-reviewed publications and two books, and edited three books, used as texts. She is Co-Chair of the Australasian Sexual Health Alliance, a sexual health advocacy alliance representing 13 multidisciplinary organisations, and on the Board of Murray City Country Coast, a GP training provider. She assisted in the establishment of VicReN, the Victorian general practice based research network. She is heavily involved in teaching primary care research skills to primary care practitioners, and has oversight of all research students in the Department.
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FEATURED Journal article
Population effectiveness of opportunistic chlamydia testing in primary care in Australia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
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SHOULD MEDICARE FUND A REBATE FOR AN ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG PERSON’S HEALTH ASSESSMENT IN G..
Research Grant
Support after miscarriage – how can we do better?
NEWS ARTICLE
Sexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation
Book
IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF CHLAMYDIA CASE MANAGEMENT IN GENERAL PRACTICE
Research Grant
Superbug gonorrhoea: should we be afraid?
NEWS ARTICLE
The cultural and social shaping of sexual health
Book Chapter
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Projects
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Research Contracts
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Internal Research Grant
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity and Staff Development
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Professor
General Practice
Member
Australian Association of Academic Primary Care
Member
Sexual Health Society of Victoria
Member
Public Health Association
Education
Education
Doctor of Health Science
Deakin University
Master of Public Health
Monash University
Grad Diploma of Movement and Dance
Melbourne College of Advanced Education
Grad Diploma Applied Child Psychology
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science
Monash University