Dr Joanne Dono

Dr Jo Dono (BA Psych Hons; Master of Psychology, PhD) is Deputy Director at the Health Policy Centre, SAHMRI, a Cancer Council Early Career Research Fellow, and a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

With a background in psychology and public health, she specialises in population approaches to preventive health behaviour change. She was recently awarded funding to investigate the potential of re-framing unhealthy foods and drinks as ultra-processed to convey dietary risk having previously led the development of multiple studies investigating warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages.

She also currently manages the Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation
program, overseeing population monitoring, social marketing campaign evaluation and policy evaluation projects on vaping and tobacco use.

She has designed, implemented, and managed numerous research and
evaluation studies in Tobacco Control that have delivered evidence (60+ reports and briefings) to policy makers for health initiatives.

Dr Dono was also integral to the SAHMRI COVID-19 Analytics Unit, producing over 30 timely evidence-based briefings on strategic public health COVID-19 policy decisions. Dr Dono has extensive experience in a variety of research methods that have a central aim of understanding and changing health behaviour.