• Bond University, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine

    4229 Gold Coast

    Australia

Accepting PhD Students

Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
20012024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research interests

Professor Hoffmann leads the Centre for Evidence-Informed Health Decisions. Its research is primarily focussed on helping people to make informed decisions about health – including health professionals, patients, and the public. The research also aims to closely integrate shared decision making and evidence-based practice so that evidence is translated into practice better, in a more patient-centred way, and in a way that considers the sustainability of health systems.

The research that is aimed at health professionals includes developing and evaluating strategies and tools (such as patient decision aids) to increase the awareness and usability of evidence about interventions and skills for incorporating this into conversations with patients.

The Centre’s interdisciplinary research draws upon the areas of shared decision making, evidence-based practice, health communication, knowledge translation, and public health.

Professor Hoffmann also conducts research into research reporting, useability, transparency, and open science. One area of this includes the development of reporting guidelines (such as the TIDieR reporting guideline and tool for improving intervention reporting and PRISMA 2020 for systematic review reporting).

 

Statement for HDR students

I am happy to supervise HDR research projects in topics relevant to my research areas. 

Examples of some previous and current HDR projects: 

Shared decision making and informed health decisions:
  • Improving the synthesis and communication of natural history evidence to reduce low-value healthcare
  • Developing and trialling an online decision aid to help parents of children with autism spectrum disorder make informed intervention decisions 
  • Exploring new ways of communicating antibiotic benefits and harms to patients and caregivers. 
  • Helping the public to make informed health care decisions by training consumers and high school students in how to evaluate research about treatments 
  • Training health professionals in shared decision making skills 
  • Using visual communication of intervention benefits and harms to enhance informed consent 
Methodological research to improve the reporting, synthesis and implementation of evidence:
  • Analysing the effective components of a complex intervention (exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation) and methods to improve implementation 
  • Improving the efficiency of systematic reviewing
 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Queensland

Award Date: 13 Dec 2005

External positions

National Stroke Foundation Clinical Council

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions Committe

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics where Tammy Hoffmann is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
  • 1 Similar Profiles

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or