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Contact Details

Email
sue.pullon@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Primary Health Care (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

Morgan, S., Pullon, S., & McKinlay, E. (2026). Observation of interprofessional collaborative practice in primary care teams: An updated integrative review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 182, 105624. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2026.105624 Journal - Research Other

McKinlay, E., Brown, M., Beckingsale, L., Doolan-Noble, F., Garnett, A., & Pullon, S. (2026). Launching a new interprofessional education programme in a rural setting: A qualitative study of the first two years. Journal of Primary Health Care, 18(1), 11-20. doi: 10.1071/HC24109 Journal - Research Article

McKinlay, E., Gladman, T., Burrow, M., & Pullon, S. (2024). Health professional students' emotional responses to effective and ineffective teamwork. Focus on Health Professional Education, 25(3), 103-120. doi: 10.11157/fohpe.v25i3.692 Journal - Research Article

McKinlay, E., Hay-Smith, J., & Pullon, S. (2024). Learning to resolve conflict: Introduction of a brief intervention into established interprofessional education. Australian Journal of Clinical Education, 13(1), 75-89. Retrieved from https://ajce.scholasticahq.com/article/123390-learning-to-resolve-conflict-introduction-of-a-brief-intervention-into-established-interprofessional-education Journal - Research Article

McKinlay, E., Gladman, T., Burrow, M., & Pullon, S. (2024). Health professional students' emotional responses to effective and ineffective teamwork. Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE) Conference. 92. Retrieved from https://www.anzahpe.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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