Rate My Professor Joanne Bradbury

Dr Joanne Bradbury is a Senior Lecturer in Evidence-Based Healthcare within the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Naturopathy with Honours from Southern Cross University, Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Southern Cross University, Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from the University of Queensland. Her PhD focused on nutritional pharmacology, and her research interests include the role of nutrition in mental health, natural and complementary medicine, psychological stress, positive mental health, omega-3 fatty acids, and biostatistics with a specialization in clinical trials analysis.

Bradbury participates in multi-disciplinary research collaborations that have attracted nearly one million dollars in funding. Key achievements encompass co-authoring the 2011 publication 'Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA): an ancient nutrient for the modern human brain', which has received over 450 citations, and contributing to a 2014 Medical Journal of Australia article on mental health emergency transport, followed by expert testimony to a Federal Senate committee. She co-founded the SCU N-of-1 Clinical Trials Unit to train health practitioners in patient-centered N-of-1 trials, representing the highest evidence level for individual interventions. She currently supervises six higher degree by research students on topics including diet and mental health, probiotics for chronic pain, and yoga for positive mental health, having previously guided two PhD and one Masters student to completion. As curriculum lead for the unit STAT2001 Foundations of Evidence for Health Science Practitioners, she provides research training to undergraduate health science students. Other notable publications include 'An adaptogenic role for omega-3 fatty acids in stress: a randomised placebo controlled double blind intervention study (pilot)' (2004), 'Practice-based research in complementary medicine: could N-of-1 trials become the new gold standard?' (2020), and 'Intention to Stay and Intention to Leave: Are They Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Cross-sectional Structural Equation Modelling Study among Health and Social Care Workers' (2014). Her research supports multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.