Rate My Professor Jane Taylor

Associate Professor Jane Taylor serves as the Public Health Discipline Lead in the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Possessing 30 years of experience as a health promotion professional and educator, she holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of the Sunshine Coast, a Master of Health Promotion from Curtin University, a Graduate Diploma in International Health from Curtin University, and a Bachelor of Education from the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology. In her role, she oversees a team specializing in health promotion, environmental health, epidemiology, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, and health economics. Taylor leads the School of Health's Health Professions Education Research Cluster and directs a project evaluating the preparedness of health science academic staff across nine professions to integrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into curricula.

Her research focuses on critical health promotion theory, practice, and education; health promotion and public health program evaluation; public health education; interprofessional education; and culturally safe health curricula. Taylor developed the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model in 2007 and the Quality Assessment Tool for Critical Health Promotion (QATCHEPP) in 2023, instruments designed to guide practitioners toward more critical, ethical, and equity-oriented approaches. Key publications include co-authoring Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach, 8th Edition (2025); The war on obesity: a social determinant of health (2006); Human rights casualties from the “war on obesity”: Why focusing on body weight is inconsistent with a human rights approach to health (2012); Values and principles evident in current health promotion practice (2007); The Red Lotus Health Promotion Model: a new model for holistic, ecological, salutogenic health promotion practice (2007); and A Critical Health Promotion Research Approach Using the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model (2022). She employs constructivist teaching methods, flipped classrooms, and has delivered webinars such as Critical health promotion – ethical, ecological practice (2020). Her scholarship advances social justice, health equity, and ethical practice in health promotion.