University of Tasmania, Australia

Associate Professor of Public Health
Course Coordinator, Master of Public Health

MBChB MPH FFPHM MD

General Responsibilities

Assoc Prof Kate MacIntyre is the co-ordinator of the Master of Public Health, which focuses on improving health outcomes at the population level.

Assoc Prof MacIntyre's research interests are in cardiovascular and stroke epidemiology, inequalities in health and socioeconomic deprivation and health services.

Teaching Responsibilities

Assoc Prof MacIntyre teaches in the area of Public Health.

She has taught at The University of Glasgow (UK) and now at the University of Tasmania.

Units Taught

• CAM529 - Introduction to Public Health

Publications

• Inglis SC, Lewsey JD, Lowe GD, Jhund P, Gillies M, Stewart S, Capewell S, Macintyre K, McMurray JJ. (2012). Angina and intermittent claudication in 7403 participants of the 2003 Scottish Health Survey: Impact on general and mental health, quality of life and five-year mortality. International Journal of Cardiology.
• Inglis SC, Lewsey JD, Chandler D, Byrne DS, Lowe GD, Macintyre K; on behalf of the Peripheral Artery Disease Project Advisory Group. (2012). Sex-specific time trends in first admission to hospital for peripheral artery disease in Scotland 1991-2007. British Journal of Surgery.
• Shaw R, Gillies M, Barber J, Macintyre K, Harkins C, Findlay IN, McCloy K, Gillie A, Scoular A, Macintyre PD. (2012). Pre-exercise screening and health coaching in CHD secondary prevention: a qualitative study of the patient experience. Health Education Research.
• Wu O, Briggs A, Kemp T, Gray A, Macintyre K, Rowley J, Willett K. (2012). Mobile Phone Use for Contacting Emergency Services in Life-threatening Circumstances. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 42(3), pp. 291-298.
• Gillies M, Jhund PS, Macteague K, Macintyre P, Allardyce J, Batty GD, Macintyre K. (2012). Prior psychiatric hospitalization is associated with excess mortality in patients hospitalized with non-cardiac chest pain: a data linkage study based on the full Scottish population (1991-2006). European Heart Journal, 33(6), pp. 760-767.

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Additional Information

More about Dr MacIntyre

Assoc Prof MacIntyre is a UK trained public health physician and clinical academic with an established track record in chronic disease epidemiology and analysis of routinely linked datasets.

Research Interests

Assoc Prof MacIntyre is particularly interested in the socio-economic determinants of health.  This includes the epidemiology of chronic disease in particular cardiovascular disease and stroke, and inequalities in incidence, treatment and survival.  She has considerable experience in the use of routinely collected data to measure health indicators and outcomes.

Some of her current and recent research higher degree supervision projects include:

• Implementation of AUSDRISK Screening for Type 2 Diabetes.
• Making healthy choices easy choices- taking students on their own food journey.
• An Investigation into the Translation of Research Methods into Health Service Improvement Strategies for Clinical Handover: the Development of OSSIE Guide for Clinical Handover Improvement Across Australian Healthcare System.
• Survival following subarachnoid haemorrhage in Scotland.
• Long term consequences of socioeconomic deprivation on cardiovascular outcomes: a 25 year follow up of the Renfrew/Paisley.