Rate My Professor Julie Mudd

Mudd's research specializations encompass public health surveillance and response, health system lessons from COVID-19 in northern Queensland, and advances in liver cirrhosis diagnosis, prevention, and management. Key publications include "The impact of excess alcohol consumption on health care utilisation in regional patients with chronic disease – a retrospective chart audit" and "The effect of alcohol consumption on clinical outcomes in regional patients with chronic disease: a retrospective chart audit" (both Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020), "Qualitative exploration of barriers to alcohol management in patients with chronic disease in a regional setting" (Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2020), "‘Hospitals respond to demand. Public health needs to respond to risk’: health system lessons from a case study of northern Queensland’s COVID-19 surveillance and response" (BMC Health Services Research, 2024), "‘It’s Feeding the Beast’: Lessons for Governance of Public Health Surveillance and Response From an Australian Case Study Analysis" (International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2025), and "Liver Cirrhosis: Evolving Definitions, and Recent Advances in Diagnosis, Prevention and Management" (Livers, 2025). She received a JCU Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the Division of Tropical Health and Medicine for inspiring student engagement in public health principles via practical, clinically relevant teaching approaches. Mudd coordinates multiple MBBS subjects, including MD1010, MD2012, MD3011, and MD3012, and leads foundational medical studies for the expanded multi-campus MBBS program.