Monash University, Victoria

Dr Sharon James works as a Research Fellow and Project Manager on the Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Support (AusCAPPS) Network. She is also an experienced primary healthcare nurse and an Australian Primary Healthcare Nurses Association Board Director. Since PhD completion in 2021, she has been awarded an AAAPC Travelling fellowship and Tutor-PHC fellowship (Western University, Canada), SPHERE CRE and CRE HiPP Seeding grants as well as a WHRTN EMCR Award. Sharon is a qualitative and mixed methods researcher with interests in women’s health, lifestyle risk, interconception, preventive care and nursing roles in primary health care.