Cathy Segan, BA (Hons), PhD holds a NHMRC post-doctoral fellowship and is an Honorary Research Associate of The Cancer Council Victoria, where she previously worked as a behavioural scientist. Over the last ten years Cathy has worked in the development and evaluation of Quit Victoria's smoking cessation services, in particular the Quitline. Her research aims to improve the effectiveness of mass-reach cessation services by exploring barriers to their use, the effectiveness of tailored services for special-needs groups (e.g., people with mental health problems, pregnant women and aboriginal people), and empirically testing behaviour change theories that inform smoking cessation interventions. Cathy is also Subject Co-ordinator of the Program Evaluation component of the Master of Public Health Part 1 subject Health Economics and Program Evaluation.
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