A Melbourne-based Primary Care Physician and PhD in Public Health working on improving institutional decision-making through tabletop exercising through The Long Game Project
Expertise:
Public Health | Game Design | Tabletop Exercises | Pandemic Prevention | Forecasting | Decision Making | Behavioural Economics | Philanthropy
Career highlights:
Behavioural Insights work for Vic Gov during early COVID, PhD Excellence Scholarship, Aus Primary Care Trainee Doctor of the Year 2018, John Monash and Rhodes Scholarship runner-up. Dan has also represented Australia in two sports internationally for Australia, with a general interest in elite performance.
He is an ambassador of @Giving What We Can, a member of @High Impact Professionals, @High Impact Medicine mentor and High Impact Athletes
You will find Dan cycling, playing tabletop games or listening to podcasts when not working.
Dr Dan Epstein
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I am a medical doctor/researcher/game designer in Australia.… just about to hand in my PhD on this (neglected) topic.
I designed and made a collectable card game for kids to incentivise and educate them on vaccine confidence, aiming to build an age-appropriate tool to support your points on educational interventions and health literacy using the engaging medium of games!
Here is the game (Vaxcards) are a few papers I published along the way:
-Tabletop Board Game Elements and Gamification Interventions for Health Behavior Change: Realist Review and Proposal of a Game Design Framework
-Recruiting for research on sensitive topics in schools: an experience with Vaxcards, a collectable vaccine card game
-Pragmatic cluster randomised control trial using Vaxcards as an age-appropriate tool to incentivise and educate school students about vaccination
-A qualitative interview study of stakeholder use of Vaxcards in schools
-Scale up of behaviour change interventions: A rapid review of international evidence and practice
-Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: a cross-sectional analysis—implications for public health communications in Australia