Bonnie Beasant

Dr. Bonnie Beasant is an Associate Lecturer in the MD Education Unit within the UWA Medical School at the University of Western Australia. She joined the institution in February 2024 as an early-career lecturer committed to improving the health and wellbeing of underserved populations. Her work focuses on health literacy barriers, particularly in cardiovascular disease prevention, and she promotes collaboration between public health and clinical settings. Beasant holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Deakin University, with her thesis titled "Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: a Health Literacy Perspective," completed between 1 February 2020 and 17 December 2023 (award date: 31 December 2024). She also possesses a Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences (Honours) in health and medical sciences, undertaken from 1 October 2014 to 7 October 2019 (award date: 1 January 2020).

Bonnie Beasant's research specializations include health literacy and community engagement in medical schools, with expertise in health literacy barriers among underserved populations and cardiovascular disease prevention. She is open to supervising PhD and other higher degree by research students. Her key publications are "Health Literacy and Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Scoping Review" published in July 2025 in Public Health Reports (vol. 140, issue 4, pp. 342-357), co-authored with Kara Anderson, Georgie Lee, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Monica Tembo, Scott McCoombe, Vanessa Vaughan, Julie A. Pasco, and Sarah M. Hosking; "A cross-sectional health literacy profile of Australian regional adults using the Health Literacy Questionnaire©" in February 2023 in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (vol. 47, issue 1, p. 100009), co-authored with Andrew Sanigorski, Nic Brayshaw, Vanessa Vaughan, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Scott McCoombe, Monica Tembo, and Sarah Hosking; and "Health literacy and cardiovascular disease prevention: a systematic scoping review protocol" published 8 June 2022 in BMJ Open (vol. 12, issue 6, e054977), co-authored with Georgie Lee, Vanessa Vaughan, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, and Sarah Hosking.

Professional Email: bonnie.beasant@uwa.edu.au