Dr Jessica Hall
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Dr Jessica Hall

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sydney School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health

Dr Jessica Hall is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Healthat The University of Sydney with 15 years of experience working in public health projects and research. Jessica has expertise in child health and nutrition and One Health and has worked on several research projects in Asia and the Pacific focused on improving the health and livelihoods of rural and remote communities.

Maternal and Child Health

One Health

Digital Health

Mixed Methods Research

Evaluation

Doctor of Medicine (MD) First Year Population Health Forum 12: One Health

Tutor for Doctor of Medicine (MD) Second Year Global Health Week

Tutor for PUBH5036: Public Health: Critical Challenges

Previous teaching roles:

Co-coordinator Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Tutoring and guest lecture for the Masters of Global Health

  • Foundations of Global Health
  • Project Management
  • Nutrition in global settings
  • Communicable Diseases

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) funded Evaluation of the Lao PDR Electronic Immunisation Register 2023-2024

The Pacific Community (SPC) funded Review of the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) 2023

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded project’ Developing the cocoa value chain in Bougainville’ (2016-2021)

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded collaborative research grant’ Vegetable cultivation to improve nutrition in Bougainville’ (2019-2020)

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded project ‘Facilitating livelihood adaptation to natural resource pressures in Lao PDR’ (2012-2015)

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Maternal and Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) evaluation in East Java, Indonesia (2014-2016)

The Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project ‘Explaining food and nutrition insecurity under conditions of rapid economic and social change: A nutrition-sensitive analysis of livelihood decision--- making in rural Myanmar (2015-2017)

Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Walton, M., Guest, D., Vinning, G., Hill-Cawthorne, G., Black, K., Betitis, T., Totavun, C., Butubu, J., Hall, J., Saul-Maora, J. (2019). Case study 1: Improving the livelihood of farmers in Bougainville. In Merrilyn Walton (Eds.), One Planet, One Health, (pp. 127-141). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]

Journals

  • Guest, D., Butubu, J., Van Ogtrop, F., Hall, J., Vinning, G., Walton, M. (2023). Poverty, education and family health limit disease management and yields on smallholder cocoa farms in Bougainville. CABI One Health, 2(1), 1-13. [More Information]
  • Walton, M., Hall, J., Guest, D., Butubu, J., Vinning, G., Black, K., Beardsley, J. (2020). Applying one health methods to improve cocoa production in Bougainville: A case study. One Health, 10, 100143. [More Information]
  • Hall, J., Walton, M., Van Ogtrop, F., Guest, D., Black, K., Beardsley, J. (2020). Factors influencing undernutrition among children under 5 years from cocoa-growing communities in Bougainville. BMJ Global Health, 5(8), 1-10. [More Information]

Research Reports

  • Pritchard, W., Dibley, M., Rammohan, A., Htin, Z., Nay, S., Thwin, T., Hmone, M., Htet, M., Vicol, M., Aung, A., Hall, J., et al (2017). Livelihoods and Food Security in Rural Myanmar: Survey Findings, (pp. 5 - 61). Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.

2023

  • Guest, D., Butubu, J., Van Ogtrop, F., Hall, J., Vinning, G., Walton, M. (2023). Poverty, education and family health limit disease management and yields on smallholder cocoa farms in Bougainville. CABI One Health, 2(1), 1-13. [More Information]

2020

  • Walton, M., Hall, J., Guest, D., Butubu, J., Vinning, G., Black, K., Beardsley, J. (2020). Applying one health methods to improve cocoa production in Bougainville: A case study. One Health, 10, 100143. [More Information]
  • Hall, J., Walton, M., Van Ogtrop, F., Guest, D., Black, K., Beardsley, J. (2020). Factors influencing undernutrition among children under 5 years from cocoa-growing communities in Bougainville. BMJ Global Health, 5(8), 1-10. [More Information]
  • Walton, M., Hall, J., Van Ogtrop, F., Guest, D., Black, K., Beardsley, J., Totavun, C., Hill-Cawthorne, G. (2020). The extent to which the domestic conditions of cocoa farmers in Bougainville impede livelihoods. One Health, 10, 100142. [More Information]

2019

  • Walton, M., Guest, D., Vinning, G., Hill-Cawthorne, G., Black, K., Betitis, T., Totavun, C., Butubu, J., Hall, J., Saul-Maora, J. (2019). Case study 1: Improving the livelihood of farmers in Bougainville. In Merrilyn Walton (Eds.), One Planet, One Health, (pp. 127-141). Sydney: Sydney University Press. [More Information]

2017

  • Pritchard, W., Dibley, M., Rammohan, A., Htin, Z., Nay, S., Thwin, T., Hmone, M., Htet, M., Vicol, M., Aung, A., Hall, J., et al (2017). Livelihoods and Food Security in Rural Myanmar: Survey Findings, (pp. 5 - 61). Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.

2012

  • Muthayya, S., Hall, J., Bagriansky, J., Sugimoto, J., Gundry, D., Matthias, D., Prigge, S., Hindle, P., Moench-Pfanner, R., Maberly, G. (2012). Rice fortification: an emerging opportunity to contribute to the elimination of vitamin and mineral deficiency worldwide. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 33(4), 296-307. [More Information]