Rate My Professor Julie Mudd

Associate Professor Julie Mudd serves as Academic Lead for Foundation Studies Medicine at James Cook University in Cairns, within the College of Medicine and Dentistry. A qualified Public Health Physician and Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FAFPHM), she holds a BSc (Hons), MBBS, MPH&TM, MPH(ATOD), and PhD from James Cook University, awarded in 2020 for her thesis titled "An investigation of the effects of alcohol on chronic disease management in a regional setting." This work investigated the impact of excess alcohol consumption on health care utilization and clinical outcomes for regional patients with chronic diseases through retrospective chart audits and qualitative explorations. Mudd commenced her PhD part-time in 2013 while undertaking public health specialist training and university teaching. Her early research contributions include studies on lipid peroxidation, antioxidants in lipoproteins, and cholesteryl ester hydroperoxides in high-density and low-density lipoproteins, published between 1995 and 1999.

Mudd's research specializations encompass public health surveillance and response, health system lessons from COVID-19 in northern Queensland, and advances in liver cirrhosis diagnosis, prevention, and management. Key publications include "The impact of excess alcohol consumption on health care utilisation in regional patients with chronic disease – a retrospective chart audit" and "The effect of alcohol consumption on clinical outcomes in regional patients with chronic disease: a retrospective chart audit" (both Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020), "Qualitative exploration of barriers to alcohol management in patients with chronic disease in a regional setting" (Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2020), "‘Hospitals respond to demand. Public health needs to respond to risk’: health system lessons from a case study of northern Queensland’s COVID-19 surveillance and response" (BMC Health Services Research, 2024), "‘It’s Feeding the Beast’: Lessons for Governance of Public Health Surveillance and Response From an Australian Case Study Analysis" (International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2025), and "Liver Cirrhosis: Evolving Definitions, and Recent Advances in Diagnosis, Prevention and Management" (Livers, 2025). She received a JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the Division of Tropical Health and Medicine for inspiring student engagement in public health principles via practical, clinically relevant teaching approaches. Mudd coordinates multiple MBBS subjects, including MD1010, MD2012, MD3011, and MD3012, and leads foundational medical studies for the expanded multi-campus MBBS program.