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Senior Lecturer in Nursing
Department of health
University of Tasmania
Australia
Shandell Elmer is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia. Shandell draws upon her work in a variety of settings including community nursing, health promotion, and general practice to inform the design of her research and curriculum. A strong advocate for primary health care, Shandell's work focuses on health literacy to improve the way that health service providers identify and respond to health literacy needs.
Dr Elmer's research aligns with the university's research theme of Better Health. Her interests include health literacy and health services research. Her interest in health literacy is an extension of work in the area of primary health care and involves research related to the undergraduate curriculum of health science students, and the practice of health care professionals. She has gained experience in health service evaluation as an assessor for quality assurance/accreditation agencies and through contract research consultancies.