Peter Bragge

Associate Professor, Healthcare Quality Improvement, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute peter.bragge@monash.edu

Core expertise

Healthcare behaviour change

Biography

Peter is an applied behavioural researcher at BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA), part of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. His approach to behaviour change focuses on evidence review and in-depth stakeholder consultation to define, understand and change practice, research and policy. He's led projects for a variety of organisations including the NSW Environment Protection Authority, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Victorian Transport Accident Commission. Peter draws upon 10 years’ experience as a physiotherapist in leading BWA’s health research.

articles

Lessons learned?: Behaviour change for the energy transition

Any incentives for energy upgrades need to consider past experience to maximise uptake, prevent unintended consequences, and reduce the likelihood that such schemes will further entrench disadvantage.

Politics and society

Think the TGA is too conservative? Think again

It’s almost comically hypocritical to argue that the Therapeutic Goods Administration needs to ‘loosen up’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medicine and health

From roadside to recovery

It took a coordinated effort to reduce Victoria's road toll from a peak of 1034 in 1969, but there's plenty of work still to do.

Politics and society

For the record, a dose of reality

If you're opting out of My Health Records, you're opting in to "business as usual". Here's what the current system looks like.

Medicine and health