Rate My Professor Olivia Wynne

Dr. Olivia Wynne is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She holds the position of Health Economist at the Hunter Medical Research Institute since 1 August 2022. Wynne obtained her PhD and Bachelor of Psychology with Honours from the University of Newcastle. Her research expertise is classified under health economics (Fields of Research code 380108). Her academic career at the University of Newcastle includes roles such as Casual Lecturer from 1 March 2005 to 1 June 2011, Research Assistant in the Faculty of Health and Medicine, School of Nursing and Midwifery from 9 June 2014 to 26 May 2017, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the School of Medicine and Public Health from 29 May 2017 to 31 December 2018, Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Science and IT from 23 January 2019 to 29 October 2020, Senior Research Officer in the School of Medicine and Public Health from 2 November 2020 to 1 August 2022, and Safety Officer in the Faculty of Science from 1 April 2013 to 1 September 2013. She also served as Postdoctoral Associate in the Endocrinology Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, from 1 September 2011 to 1 November 2012.

Wynne has served as an investigator on multiple research grants, including Evidence Snapshot: Interventions to reduce or prevent lifestyle risks for people with disability (The Sax Institute, 2021, $8,600), Evidence Check review: Implementing initiatives to improve physical health for people in community based mental health programs (The Sax Institute, 2020, $42,100), Exploring smoking cessation with alcohol and other drug treatment clients (Hunter New England Local Health District, 2018, $40,000), Emlyn and Jennie Thomas Postgraduate Medical Research Scholarship (Hunter Medical Research Institute, 2018-2019, $20,000), and Assisting sheltered homeless individuals to quit smoking (Hunter Medical Research Institute, 2018, $10,000). Her publications include the chapter 'Stress and Neuroendocrine–Immune Interaction: A Therapeutic Role for Beta-endorphin' (2013), 'Developments in the Research Base on Reducing Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke' (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018), 'Signs, fines and compliance officers: A systematic review of strategies for enforcing smoke-free policy' (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018), 'A Systematic Review of Psychosocial Barriers and Facilitators to Smoking Cessation in People Living With Schizophrenia' (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018), and 'The unmet needs of carers of stroke survivors: An evaluation of Google search results' (Health Informatics Journal, 2020). Earlier work addressed topics such as the effect of neonatal respiratory infection on adult BALB/c hippocampal glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors (Developmental Psychobiology, 2012).