Dr Louise Keogh, BSc UWA MA Monash PhD LaTrobe
 |
|
Background
Louise Keogh is a health sociologist, but began her academic life in the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Australia . After graduating and working as a research chemist with a mining company, Louise retrained in social research by completing a Masters degree in the Sociology department at Monash University . She then pursued social research in health at the Centre for the Study of STDs at La Trobe University and completed her PhD in the School of Public Health at La Trobe in 2003. Louise's research projects include GP management of STIs, evaluation of screening for genital herpes, women's use of emergency contraception, and more recently the perception of risk for breast cancer, and the use of screening and genetic technology in the prevention of breast cancer.
Louise holds a (part time) National Health and Medical Research Council Post Doctoral Training Fellowship and collaborates with Professor John Hopper and others at the MEGA centre in the University's School of Population Health and Associate Professor Kelly Phillips at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Research Interests
• Individualisation of risk
• Translation of knowledge between the ‘expert' and the ‘lay person'
• Health technologies
• Contraception and abortion
Key Publications
KEOGH L (2005). Women's contraceptive decision-making: juggling the needs of the sexual body and the fertile body. Women and Health. 42(4)83-103.
KEOGH L (2005). A qualitative study of women's use of emergency contraception. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 31(4) 288-293.
KEOGH L (2005). Understandings of the ‘natural' body: a comparison of the views of users and providers of emergency contraception. Sexual Health 2(2):109-115.
KEOGH L, Southey M, Maskiell J, Young M-A, Gaff C, Kirk J, Tucker K, Rosenthal D, McCredie M, Giles G, Hopper J (2004). Uptake of offer to receive genetic information about BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in an Australian population-based study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 13: 2258-2263.
Smith A, Denham I, KEOGH, L, Jacobs D, McHarg V, Marceglia A, Wood V (2000). Psychosocial impact of type-specific Herpes Simplex serological testing on asymptomatic sexual health clinic attendees. International Journal of STD& AIDS 11 15-20.
Mulvey G, KEOGH, L, Temple-Smith M (2000). Outcomes of an educational activity with Victorian GPs aimed at improving knowledge and practices in relation to sexually transmissible diseases. Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health 24 (1) 76-78.