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Dr Rachel Rowe

Dr Rachel Rowe

Senior Lecturer

PHD, MPH, BA (Hons)

Medicine & Health
School of Population Health

My research critically engages with knowledge-making in public health and welfare systems. I'm interested novel data intensive and algorithmic technologies, including automated assessment and risk prediction - with close attention to the commercial determinants of these emerging technologies and their implications for health and social equity. I combine my expertise in sociology, public health, political economy, social policy, and science and technology studies, with experience in policy, project and evaluation roles in community health and NSW Health.

Supervision:

I am available for coursework and HDR research supervision including 6cp, 12cp and 18cp projects, Independent Learning Projects and PhDs.

Research Interests:

public health, science and technology policy, political economy, digital health technologies, social studies of finance, harm reduction, economic sociology.

Teaching:

I have over a decade of experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in Public Health, Arts & Humanities, Social Policy and Social Science programs. I currently convene the postgraduate course, Health Promotion and Social Perspectives of Health (PHCM9012).

Additional Roles at UNSW:

Inaugural Director, School of Population Health Advocacy Lab 

Society Memberships & Professional Activities:

Data Justice Research Network (UNSW), Media Futures Hub (UNSW)

NSW Branch Executive member, Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)

Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA)

 

 

 
E-mail
r.rowe@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Population Health, Level 5, Health Translation Hub, UNSW Randwick

2018 - Scientia Scholarship

I currently serve on the NSW Branch Committee of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA). My primary advocacy role for the branch is in public health's responses to climate change.

My Teaching

I teach to promote critical thinking, foster the application of course content to real world contexts and to empower students to unpack and address a range of challenging social questions. Creating dynamic and participatory learning environments that make learning new things less intimidating is my passion.

I convene PHCM9012 Health Promotion and Social Perspectives of Health. I have over ten years of experience teaching courses in contemporary political economy, surveillance and the politics of public health, theories of social change and contemporary society.