Portrait of Sam Cassar

Sam Cassar

Lecturer - Public Health-703430

School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences

Appleton Institute


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

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Research Supervision

Accreditation

I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:

  • 4203 Health services and systems
  • 4206 Public health

Current Capacity

I am currently available to supervise more research candidates

Current Supervision

Doctor of Philosophy
The relationship between the risk of job retention and mental health among adults with age-related vision impairment in Nigeria: A qualitative study
Associate Supervisor

Research Interests

Health Sciences

Public health - Preventative health care

Health Sciences

Sports science and exercise - Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified

Publications

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Teaching

Higher Education

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Vocational Education and Training

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