Julie Ayre

Dr Julie Ayre is a behavioural scientist. Her research focuses on health literacy, behaviour change for lifestyle and self-management, patient-provider relationships and mobile health. She has collaborated with Western Sydney Diabetes to develop health-literate scripts for over 100 diabetes self-management videos, and teaches health literacy skills to allied health and medical students. She currently leads the development of an online health literacy editor to assist health professionals in developing easy-to-understand health materials.