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Contact Details

Email
sue.pullon@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Director of the Otago Interprofessional Education (IPE) Centre
Department
Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice (Wellington)
Qualifications
MBChB DipObst (Otago) MRNZCGP
Research summary
Primary care; Women's health

Research

Sue Pullon’s research areas of expertise are health professional and interprofessional education, collaborative practice and integrated care, and health education and promotion in sexual and reproductive health. Among many other educational research projects, she set up the Tairāwhiti interprofessional programme (TIPE) for senior health professional students and is currently overseeing a research team working on the Longitudinal InterProfessional (LIP) study, following 500+ graduating students from seven health disciplines (including 100+ TIPE students) over their first three to four years of practice, to ascertain programme effects on subsequent practice and career trajectories. As a clinical researcher, Sue practised as a GP for many years and maintains a well-established teaching-research partnership with the Wellington Sexual Health Service and research team members, investigating and improving health delivery, particularly for young people. As a health educator, she is the lead author of the NZ Pregnancy Book, into its third edition and in print for 23 years.

Publications

Darlow, B., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., Purdie, G., & Pullon, S. (2023). Influence of a rural interprofessional education placement on the rural health workforce: Working in primary care, rural settings, and with Māori [Short research report]. Journal of Primary Health Care, 15(1), 78-83. doi: 10.1071/hc22136 Journal - Research Article

Elkin, L. E., Stubbe, M. H., & Pullon, S. R. H. (2023). ‘Fuzzy and context dependent’: A critical discourse analysis of manipulation in online vaccine information. Communication Research & Practice, 9(1), 67-82. doi: 10.1080/22041451.2022.2137251 Journal - Research Article

McKinlay, E., White, K., Garrett, S., Gladman, T., & Pullon, S. (2023). Work-place cancer and palliative care interprofessional education: Experiences of students and staff. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 37(1), 29-38. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2021.1981259 Journal - Research Article

Darlow, B., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., Purdie, G., & Pullon, S. (2022). The Longitudinal Interprofessional study: Impact of pre-registration interprofessional education on the attitudes and skills of health professionals during their early careers. Proceedings of the New Zealand Primary Care Research Colloquium. (pp. 2-3). Retrieved from https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/fmhs/about-the-faculty/soph/sections-departments-centres/general-practice-and-primary-health-care/research-interests.html Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Barthow, C., Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., & Krebs, J. (2022). It is time for a more targeted approach to prediabetes in primary care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(4), 372-377. doi: 10.1071/HC22089 Journal - Research Other

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