Sam Cassar
Lecturer - Public Health-703430
School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences
Appleton Institute
- s.cassar@cqu.edu.au
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Melbourne
- Room 4.02
About Me
Sam is an early-career implementation science researcher currently lecturing into the Master of Public Health at the CQU Melbourne Campus with a keen interest on ensuring the best available evidence is implemented in public health. He currently holds a 2024 CQUniversity Internal Research Grant titled ‘Stepping Up to Scale: increasing system integration and sustainability of the 10,000 Steps Program’. Sam's PhD was completed at Deakin University and focused on the implementation and scale up process for a statewide physical activity intervention in schools before moving to the National Preventive Health Taskforce as a policy officer in the Department of Health. Sam's most recent work at Orygen / University of Melbourne Centre for Youth Mental Health in the Knowledge Translation division focussed on developing, implementing and evaluating evidence-informed and stakeholder-based models of care.
General
Universities Studied At
Deakin University
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Victoria University
Universities Worked At
Deakin University
University of Melbourne
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Awards
2020: Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA) Award for Excellence and Innovation in Public Health Team Research for the Transform-Us! Project.
Professional Memberships
Public Health Association of Australia
Asia-Pacific Society for Physical Activity
Recent Research Projects
Research Supervision
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4203 Health services and systems
- 4206 Public health
Current Capacity
Current Supervision
Research Interests
Public health - Preventative health care
Sports science and exercise - Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified