Dr Jocelyn Chan
Public Health Physician; Senior Research Officer
Working groups
Background
Jocelyn is a Consultant Addiction Medicine Physician at Western Health with a strong commitment to harm reduction and meaningful collaboration with people who use drugs.
She is an experienced epidemiologist who has led large-scale, multi-site studies and applies contemporary epidemiological methods to inform practice and policy. Jocelyn also brings extensive policy and programmatic expertise from her work in government with the Victorian Department of Health and NSW Health, as well as with leading non-governmental organisations including Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Health Organization, and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.
Qualifications
- 2022: PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2015: MPhil(Applied Epidemiology), Australian National University, Australia
- 2011: MBBS/BMedSci, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Burnet publications
View 2 moreGuest editorial: The need for improved dual diagnosis research in criminalised populations
Advances in Dual Diagnosis
Thileepan Naren, Jocelyn Chan, Anthony Hew
The Need for National Minimum Healthcare Standards in Australian Custodial Settings
The Medical Journal of Australia
Thileepan Naren et al
National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings
The Medical Journal of Australia
Jocelyn Chan et al
Current projects
View 2 moreUnlocking health: using linked administrative data to improve health outcomes for people incarcerated in Victoria
In this project we aim to establish a system for monitoring health and health service use among people leaving prison in Victoria.
Methamphetamine use in Melbourne and rural Victoria: the VMAX cohort study
The VMAX cohort study follows 850 people who use methamphetamine recruited from metropolitan Melbourne and 3 regions of rural Victoria.
National Prison Addiction Medicine Network
The NPAMN aims to advance best-practice healthcare for people in prison by coordinating an evidence-based national approach to prison-based addiction medicine.
