
Jenna Smith
@smith_jenna_
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @Syd_Health @HealthLitLab @WiserHealthcare - find me at jenna-smith.bsky.social
Older adults, #SharedDecisionMaking, #overdiagnosis
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02-04-2019 00:34:32
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Our letter on greener inhalers has been published in NEJM. For most patients, dry-powder inhalers are as effective as metered-dose inhalers but have a much lower carbon footprint. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… With Luise Kazda and Gillian Parker

Marketing empowerment: how corporations co-opt feminist narratives to promote non-evidence-based health interventions. Analysis by Tessa Copp @brooke_nickel Kristen Pickles Jenna Smith me Minna Johansson jadoust Sweekriti Sharma🇳🇵 et al in The BMJ bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Feminist health narratives are being co-opted by commercial interests to market new technologies, tests, and treatments that are not backed by evidence, argue @brooke_nickel Tessa Copp and colleagues Sydney Health Literacy Lab Wiser Healthcare bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Delighted to have this out there! Final PhD paper published 🎉 I loved working with such amazing and supportive co-authors on this one! We found promising results for an intervention to support older women’s choices about continuing/stopping breast screening JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine

Another great media article of our The BMJ paper describing how some companies manipulate the narrative of women’s empowerment to sell AMH tests @brooke_nickel Jolyn Hersch Jenna Smith Kristen Pickles medicaldevice-network.com/news/false-emp…


NEW RESEARCH | Participant factors associated with psychosocial impacts of lung cancer screening: A systematic review by @kmcfaddxn A/Prof Nicole Rankin Dr Tong Li Chloe Jennett Samantha Quaife N Houssami Dr Rachael Dodd et al. Sydney Health Literacy Lab Read in CancerMedicine ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/cam4.7…


Period-tracking apps are part of a booming industry known as “femtech”. But many apps' predictions are based on outdated ideas of what's normal. Can we trust them? Tessa Copp Dr Emmalee Ford University of Sydney University of Newcastle theconversation.com/can-i-trust-my…

Can I trust my period-tracking app? Here’s what it can tell you – and what to watch out for Dr Emmalee Ford Sydney Health Literacy Lab theconversation.com/can-i-trust-my…

Low and middle-income countries struggle to provide health care to some, while others get too much medicine. In this video, we delve into the research that addresses the stark disparities in healthcare provision in LMICs. youtu.be/IR-hl_Chp98?fe… Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare Wiser Healthcare

RCT: The Health Literacy Editor helped users simplify health information and apply health literacy guidelines to written text. ja.ma/3BF9fBq Sydney Health Literacy Lab


great to see the data behind this tool which we use and recommend often. #healthliteracy #shareddecisionmaking #MDMTwitter A/Prof Carissa Bonner Kirsten McCaffery Dr Heather Shepherd et al jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Our seminar is happening in a few hours! Don't forget to sign up! Trudy van der Weijden and Jesse Jansen will present on "Implementing #SharedDecisionMaking in the Netherlands 15th Oct 12:00 PM UTC Register here: tinyurl.com/mtzjupbc


Very pleased and proud to see Public Health at the University of Sydney ranked #10 in the world. It's a wonderful community of passionate, committed teachers, researchers and practitioners who genuinely strive to make the world a better place. J. Jaime Miranda

🗣️ New podcast feature! Is egg freezing all it’s cracked up to be? 🤔🐣 Listen to our research fellow Tessa Copp discuss egg freezing on the new episode of ‘Ladies We Need To Talk’ podcast here: abc.net.au/listen/program…

So good to chat to the amazing Yumi Stynes she/her on #LadiesWeNeedtoTalk about this important issue! Listen here for their brilliant ep about the AMH test and egg freezing. Wiser Healthcare Sydney Health Sydney Uni Media


Last call to submit your paper to Health Literacy & Communication Open this year with no open access fee. Huge thanks to Danielle Muscat for partnering with me on this, and our amazing editorial board - together we have published 20 papers from all around the world in 2024 🌎