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Dr Belinda Lewis

Dr Belinda Lewis

Senior Lecturer, Health Social Science

PhD, BAppSci(Hons), BSci, DipEducation

Telephone: +61 3 9904 4469
   
Facsimile: +61 3 9903 1658
   
Email: belinda.lewis@med.monash.edu.au

Profile

Research interests

  • Health promotion;
  • International health development: community partnerships and capacity building for health promotion;
  • Crisis, recovery and community sustainability (Bali, Indonesia, Sri Lanka);
  • Insecurity and the transition to civil society;
  • Cultural politics of health (including HIV, drug use, sexuality, gender);
  • Health communication (including new technologies, advocacy, arts and popular media);
  • Cultural studies and critical approaches to the media and public health

Belinda has recently supervised PhD and Masters research focused on HIV/AIDS prevention in Vietnam, and freedom of the press in Indonesia.

Teaching

Teaching areas include the foundations of health, health promotion, health communication, community partnerships and capacity building. Belinda also presents public lectures and workshops in health promotion, diversity and health, and the media and public health.

Postgraduate supervision interests

Health promotion; HIV/AIDS prevention; International health development - crisis, recovery and community sustainability; insecurity and the transition to civil society; community partnerships and capacity building in local and international contexts; diversity, cultural politics of health (including HIV, drug use, sexuality, gender); Cultural studies and critical approaches to the media and public health.

Belinda has a PhD in Health Promotion from Deakin University and has worked as a practitioner, researcher and health promotion consultant with a wide range of government, professional and community organisations. These include community health services, local government, health advocacy groups, Divisions of General Practice, Royal Women’s Hospital, VICFIT, Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia, Cancer Council and the Victorian Government Department of Human Services. Belinda has worked in a range of international settings on key global health issues including HIV/AIDS; community recovery after crisis & conflict; diversity, discrimination and the cultural politics of health; health communication and the role of the media in health promotion. Her recent research and publications are focused on international health – crisis, recovery and community capacity-building and sustainability.

Belinda’s research interests can be explored in her new book, ‘Bali’s Silent Crisis: desire, tragedy and transition’, co-authored with Jeff Lewis, and recently published in the US by Lexington, Rowman and Littlefiled.

Bali's Silent Crisis

Recent Publications

  • Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2009., Bali's Silent Crisis: desire, tragedy and transition. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, US.
  • Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2007, ‘Transforming the Bhuta Kala: The Bali bombings and Indonesian Civil Society’, in D. Staines, Ed. Interrogating the War on Terror, Cambridge Scholars Press.
  • Lewis B. and Lewis J. 2007, ‘Taming the Rwa Bhineda: Recovery after the Bali Bombings’, in P.James, T. Nairn and D. Grenfell, (Eds), Beyond Savage Globalization?, Routledge, Melbourne.
  • Lewis B. & Stone N. 2007, ‘Shaping a sustainable inter-professional education program’, Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Vol 8, no 3. http://www.anzame.unsw.edu.au/journal.htm
  • Lewis J. and Lewis B. 2006, ‘On the Edge of the Wave: Community recovery in a tsunami-affected area of Sri Lanka’ in K.Cook and K.Gilbert, Eds, Life on the Margins: Implications for Health Research, Pearson Education, Melbourne. (ISBN: 0733978355)
  • Lewis J. & Lewis B. 2006, ‘Trial by Ordeal: Abu Ghraib and the Global Mediasphere’, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 15, pp.27-43.
  • Lewis B. and Ridge D. 2005, 'Mothers reframing physical activity: family-oriented politicism, transgression and contested expertise', Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 60, pp.2295-2306.
  • Bagot K., Lawson M., Jolly B., McCall L., Bearman M., Lewis B., McKenna L. & Newton J. 2005, International Approaches to Undergraduate Clinical Training, Report commissioned by the Policy and Strategic Projects Division, Victorian Department of Human Services, Monash University, Melbourne.
  • Lewis B. and Lewis J. 2004, ‘After the Glow: challenges and opportunities for Balinese communities in the context of the 2002 bombings’, First International Sources of Insecurity Conference Proceedings, Globalism Institute, Melbourne.
  • Lewis J and Lewis B. 2004, ‘The Crisis of Contiguity: communities and contention in the context of the Bali bombings’, First International Sources of Insecurity Conference Proceedings, Globalism Institute, Melbourne.
  • Lewis B. and Lewis J. 2004, 'Expressive condition: Cultural Studies, the Body and Public Health', International Journal of Humanities, vol 2, issue 1.
  • Garrard J., Lewis B., Kelleher H., Tunny N., Burke L. Harper S., Round R. 2004, 'Planning for Health Communities: reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes through healthier environments and lifestyles, Victorian Department of Human Services, Melbourne.