Stephanie Short

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Stephanie Short
Born	Stephanie Doris Short 1956
🏳️ Nationality	Australian
💼 Occupation	Health sociologist, academic, board director
Known for	Research on health workforce governance and health professional migration
👪 Relatives	Leonie Short (twin sister)

Stephanie Doris Short (born 1956) is an Australian health sociologist, academic, and board director. She is an honorary professor in behavioural and social sciences in health at the University of Sydney, and has held chairs in public health and sociology at several Australian universities. Her research focuses on health policy, health services, and the health workforce, with particular attention to the governance of health professional migration and the sociology of the health professions. She has served as a senior technical adviser to the World Health Organization and has served as a non-executive director of a number of not-for-profit organisations.

Early life and education

Short was born in 1956. She attended Tara Anglican School for Girls, Westmead Primary School, and Pendle Hill High School in Sydney.

She completed a Diploma in Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney in 1976 and worked as a physiotherapist in urban and rural health care settings across New South Wales and Queensland between 1977 and 1982, including as a resident physiotherapist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, before moving into an academic career in sociology.

She completed a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in sociology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1982 and a Master of Science (Economics) in sociology as applied to medicine at the University of London in 1984. She was awarded a PhD in sociology from UNSW in 1991.

She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, having completed the Company Directors Course in 2021.

Academic career

Short began her academic career in 1985 as a part-time tutor at UNSW and a part-time lecturer in sociology at the University of Sydney's Cumberland College of Health Sciences, before taking up a lectureship in sociology at the University of Wollongong (1986–1992), with a concurrent period as a lecturer in sociology at the Newcastle College of Advanced Education (1987–1988).

She joined UNSW as senior lecturer in health care sociology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine (1992–2003).

In late 2003 Short was appointed foundation professor of public health at Griffith University, where she served as chair of the School of Public Health and as associate dean (teaching and learning) (2005–2006), until 2007. She concurrently held an adjunct professorship in the Law and Justice Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology (2007–2010).

After a period as curriculum consultant in health systems at the University of Queensland's School of Population Health (2008–2009), Short joined the University of Sydney in 2009 as professor in behavioural and social sciences in health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. There she served as associate dean (postgraduate learning and teaching) (2009–2012) and as discipline chair (2013–2016). She directed HealthGov (2009–2021), a research group focusing on health workforce governance, and served as deputy director (2016–2018) and then director (2019–2021) of the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

She held a conjoint professorship in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Newcastle (2008–2016).

Short became an honorary professor at the University of Sydney in 2021. She was appointed adjunct professor in public health and tropical medicine at James Cook University, Townsville, in 2021.

Research

Short's research spans health policy, health services research, and health workforce development, with an emphasis on the sociology of the health professions and the governance of internationally mobile health workers.

Her work on health workforce governance and migration includes research into the governance of health professional migration to Australia and Canada, supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, with studies on internationally qualified nurses and dentists and on source-country perspectives, notably from the Philippines. With Australian and Korean colleagues she has examined workforce quality in long-term care in Australia and South Korea, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea.

For the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization she has worked on health workforce development in rehabilitation, including contributing to the development and validation of the WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework. She has also served as a senior technical adviser to the World Health Organization in Geneva, providing scientific advice to underpin global guidance on the regulation of health practitioners.

Her other research areas include oral health care access among culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia, including work theorising "dental hesitancy"; comparative analysis of political economy, inequality and population health; and historical analysis of Australian health policy reform, including the introduction of Medibank and the role of the medical profession's lobby.

Selected publications

Books

• Palmer, G.R. & Short, S.D. (1989). Health Care and Public Policy: The Australian Experience. Macmillan.
• Short, S.D., Speedy, S. & Sharman, E. (1998). Sociology for Nurses: An Australian Introduction. Macmillan Education AU.
• O'Sullivan, G., Sharman, E. & Short, S.D. (1999). Goodbye Normal Gene: Confronting the Genetic Revolution. Pluto Press Australia.
• Short, S.D. (2000). Health Care & Public Policy: An Australian Analysis. Macmillan Education AU.
• Short, S.D. (ed.) (2016). Health Workforce Governance: Improved Access, Good Regulatory Practice, Safer Patients. Routledge.

Journal articles

• Short, S.D. (2003). "A shift in the historical trajectory of medical dominance: the case of Medibank and the Australian doctors' lobby". Social Science & Medicine, 57(2).
• Boxall, A.M. & Short, S.D. (2006). "Political economy and population health: is Australia exceptional?" Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 3(1).
• Short, S.D. et al. (2014). "Source country perceptions, experiences, and recommendations regarding health workforce migration: a case study from the Philippines". Human Resources for Health, 12.
• Short, S.D. et al. (2015). "The importance of workforce surveillance, research evidence and political advocacy in the context of international migration of dentists". British Dental Journal, 218.
• Mills, J.A., Cieza, A., Short, S.D. & Middleton, J.W. (2021). "Development and Validation of the WHO Rehabilitation Competency Framework: A Mixed Methods Study". Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• Lee, H.Y., Short, S., Lee, M.J. & Jeon, Y.H. (2022). "Improving the quality of long-term care services in workforce dimension: expert views from Australia and South Korea". Archives of Public Health, 80.
• Marcus, K., Balasubramanian, M., Short, S.D. & Sohn, W. (2022). "Dental hesitancy: a qualitative study of culturally and linguistically diverse mothers". BMC Public Health, 22.

Board and professional service

Short has served as a non-executive director of a number of not-for-profit organisations. She has been a director of the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network since November 2022 and a director of Dying with Dignity NSW since April 2022. She was a director of the Central Coast Community Women's Health Centre from 2020 to 2025, including as company secretary from 2021.

Her previous roles include director of the New South Wales Community Health Association (1988–1997); president of the New South Wales branch of the Public Health Association of Australia and member of its executive council (1996–2001); director of KU Children's Services (2001–2003); board member of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 15 (Sociology of Health) (2010–2018, secretary-treasurer 2014–2018) and Research Committee 52 (Sociology of Professional Groups) (2018–2023); and international advisory board member for the Sociology of Health Professions series at Bristol University Press and Policy Press (from 2018).

Personal life

Short is the twin sister of Leonie Short, who served as the member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Ryan in 2001.

External links

• University of Sydney profile
• Google Scholar profile

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