Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Dr Sophie Hill

Contact Details

Email: sophie.hill@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9479 1941
International: +61 3 9479 1941
Fax: (03) 9479 1783
International: +61 3 9479 1783
Office: HS1-520S

Qualifications

BA(Hons) Melb., MA, PhD La Trobe

Interests

Dr Sophie Hill is the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. This group coordinates the production of systematic Cochrane reviews of the effectiveness of interventions that are designed to improve people's interactions with the health system. Sophie has worked for consumer organisations and government, researching people's experiences of health care and investigating ways to improve service delivery.

Click here to link to the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group website.

Academic Research Interests

• Evidence-based health care, systematic reviews of effectiveness, people's experiences of surgery, do-not-resuscitate orders.
• People's experiences of health care; reviews of evidence on interventions to improve interactions with consumers of health care; consumer involvment in policy making.

Publications

Hill, S. (2003). Review of: Henderson, S. & Peterson, A. Consuming health: The commodification of health care. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 27(4), 470.

Hill, S. (2003). What is new in health information? Evidence for health consumers and policy making. In V. Lin & B. Gibson (Eds.), Evidence-based health policy: Problems and possibilities (pp. 44-55). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Hill, S., & Stoelwinder, J. (2003). Communicating with consumers: The development of an evidence-based research agenda in chronic illness research. Australian Journal of Primary Health, Special Issue: The Management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care Settings, 9(2 & 3), 218-222.

Health Technologies: Critical Compromises, edited by J.Daly, M.Guillemin, and S. Hill, 2001, Oxford University Press