Dannielle Post

Dr Dannielle Post

Program Director: Health Sciences and Public Health

UniSA Allied Hlth & Human Perf

Teaching Enterprise

Dr Dannielle Post is the Program Director of the Bachelor of Health Science (Public Health) Program, the Academic Coordinator for the Healthy Choices Community-based Program, and a researcher with ARENA, in UniSA's Allied Health and Human Performance Academic Unit.
Dannielle holds a PhD, Master of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Medical Science, with additional post-graduate training in public health research and evaluation.
Dannielle conducts research and teaching within the fields of health promotion, public health, public health epidemiology, and program design, implementation, and evaluation. She has a number of years’ experience teaching courses that seek to provide students with an understanding of public health, evaluation, epidemiology, and how the social determinants of health contribute to the health of populations.
Dannielle’s research investigates the physical and psychological health and wellbeing of family carers, in particular family care-partners of veterans.
Dannielle is an Australian Mental Health Leaders Fellow (Cohort 3, 2019-2020), an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee of the Public Health Association of Australia (SA Branch), an ARENA Member, and a member of the Invictus Pathways Program Executive.

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2025 Post, D., Baker, A., Milanese, S., Freegard, S., & Parfitt, G. (2025). "I know I can do anything I set my mind to now." From the Invictus Pathways Program to representing Australia competitively: a qualitative analysis of the perceptions and experiences of veterans and their family support networks about the impact of participation. Journal of Military Social Work and Behavioral Health Services, 1-8.
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2025 Post, D., Whitson, K., & Parfitt, G. (2025). Implementation of New Technologies in an Aged Care Social Day Program: Mixed Methods Evaluation. Jmir Aging, 8, 11 pages.
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2024 Post, D., Parfitt, G., Baldock, K., Gunn, K. M., Field, C., & Reggett, D. (2024). Understanding the emotional and practical support needs of family care-partners of Veterans to promote well-being. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 10(2), 109-121.
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2024 Lock, M., Post, D., Dollman, J., & Parfitt, G. (2024). The effects of a theory-informed intervention on physical activity behaviour, motivation and well-being of frontline aged care workers: A pilot study with 6-month follow-up. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 35(1), 207-219.
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2023 Lim, R., Dumuid, D., Parfitt, G., Stanford, T., Post, D., Bilton, R., . . . Roughead, E. E. (2023). Using wrist-worn accelerometers to identify the impact of medicines with anticholinergic or sedative properties on sedentary time: A 12-month prospective analysis. Maturitas, 172, 9-14.
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2023 Post, D., Baker, A., Milanese, S., Freegard, S., & Parfitt, G. (2023). Process evaluation of the Invictus Pathways Program. Plos One, 18(11 November), 25 pages.
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2023 Post, D., Baker, A., Milanese, S., Freegard, S., & Parfitt, G. (2023). The physical, psychological, and social impacts of participation in the Invictus Pathways Program: A qualitative analysis of veterans’ perceptions and experiences. Plos One, 18(10 October), 20 pages.
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2022 Post, D., van Agteren, J., Kasai, D., Barrett, A., Doyle, M., Kernot, J., . . . Parfitt, G. (2022). Caring for carers: Understanding the physical and psychological well-being of carers of veterans in Australia. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(3), 793-803.
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2022 Roughead, E. E., Pratt, N. L., Parfitt, G., Rowett, D., Kalisch-Ellett, L. M., Bereznicki, L., . . . Lim, R. (2022). Effect of an ongoing pharmacist service to reduce medicine-induced deterioration and adverse reactions in aged-care facilities (nursing homes): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (the ReMInDAR trial). AGE AND AGEING, 51(4), 1-9.
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2022 Bhatti, A. J., Lin, S., Post, D., Baldock, K., & Dawes, N. (2022). Prevalence and characteristics of advocacy curricula in Australian public health degrees. Health Promotion Journal Of Australia, 33(S1), 50-56.
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2022 Post, D., Barrett, A., Baker, A., Kernot, J., & Parfitt, G. (2022). A qualitative exploration of the physical and psychological wellbeing of family carers of veterans in Australia. Plos One, 17(6 June), 21 pages.
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2021 Post, D., Vitry, A., & Baldock, K. L. (2021). Evaluating changes in student health, wellbeing and social circumstances before and during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in Australia. Peerj, 9(e12078), 10 pages.
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2021 Fraysse, F., Post, D., Eston, R., Kasai, D., Rowlands, A. V., & Parfitt, G. (2021). Physical Activity Intensity Cut-Points for Wrist-Worn GENEActiv in Older Adults. FRONTIERS IN SPORTS AND ACTIVE LIVING, 2(article no. 579278), 9 pages.
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2021 Rahja, M., Nguyen, K. H., Post, D., Parfitt, G., Corlis, M., & Comans, T. (2021). Some gain for a small investment: An economic evaluation of an exercise program for people living in residential aged care. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 40(2), e116-e124.
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2021 Lock, M., Post, D., Dollman, J., & Parfitt, G. (2021). Efficacy of theory-informed workplace physical activity interventions: a systematic literature review with meta-analyses. Health Psychology Review, 15(4), 483-507.
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2020 Post, D., Corlis, M., Pennington, A., & Parfitt, G. (2020). Exercise physiology in aged care: perceptions and acceptability from the perspectives of family members and care staff in the residential aged care environment. Dementia, 19(7), 2152-2165.
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2020 Lock, M., Post, D., Dollman, J., & Parfitt, G. (2020). Feasibility and Process Evaluation of a Need-Supportive Physical Activity Program in Aged Care Workers: The Activity for Well-Being Project. Frontiers in Psychology, 11(518413), 15 pages.
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2020 Parfitt, G., Post, D., Penington, A., Davison, K., & Corlis, M. (2020). Evaluation of an implementation project: the exercise physiology in aged care program. Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 20(6), 595-601.
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2020 Parfitt, G., Post, D., Penington, A., Davison, K., & Corlis, M. (2020). Challenges associated with physical assessments for people living with dementia: Modifying standard assessment protocols. Sage Open Medicine, 8, 5 pages.
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2020 Parfitt, G., Post, D., Ellett, L. K., Lim, R., Penington, A., Corlis, M., & Roughead, E. (2020). A cross-sectional assessment of the relationship between sedative medication and anticholinergic medication use and the movement behaviour of older adults living in residential aged care. Peerj, 8(e9605), 9 pages.
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2018 Lock, M., Post, D., Dollman, J., & Parfitt, G. (2018). Development of a self-determination theory-based physical activity intervention for aged care workers: protocol for the activity for well-being program. Frontiers in public health, 6(341), 1-15.
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2016 Post, D., Paquet, C., Misan, G., & Haren, M. T. (2016). Reshaping antecedents of health behaviour: planning, implementing, and evaluating a theoretically-based health promotion program in a remotely-located, predominantly male workplace. International journal of behavioral medicine, 23, S149-S150.
2015 Iannella, S., Smith, A., Post, D. K., & Haren, M. T. (2015). How widespread are the use of frameworks and theories in applied health promotion research in rural and remote places? A review of programs targeted at cardiometabolic risk factors. Rural and remote health, 15(3529), 1-23.
2015 Post, D., Daniel, M., Misan, G., & Haren, M. (2015). A workplace health promotion application of the Precede-Proceed model in a regional and remote mining company in Whyalla, South Australia. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 8(3), 154-174.
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2015 Iannella, S., Smith, A., Post, D. K., & Haren, M. T. (2015). How widespread are the use of frameworks and theories in applied health promotion research in rural and remote places? A review of programs targeted at cardiometabolic risk factors. Rural and Remote Health, 15(4), 3529-1-3529-23.
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