2017

Doctor of Philosophy, Flinders University

Awarded: Vice-Chancellors Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence; conferred with no changes.

Thesis: Australian civilian hospital nurses’ lived experience of an out-of-hospital disaster.

2009

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Epidemiology, University of Newcastle (GPA: 6.25 / 7)

2006

Master of Critical Care Nursing, University of Canberra

Thesis: In-hospital resuscitation: Graduate nurses’ lived experience in the non-critical care environment – a hermeneutic phenomenological approach.

2005

Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing, University of Canberra (GPA: 6.25 / 7)

2004

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, Charles Sturt University (GPA: 6.75 / 7)

2002

Degree of Bachelor of Nursing, University of Canberra

2008

Certificate IV in Project Management

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University

Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University

01/2022 – Present

Associate Professor [Level D]

06/2020 – 12/2021

Senior Research Fellow [Level C]

01/2020 – 05/2020

Research Fellow [Level B]

01/2018 – 12/2019

Conjoint Research Fellow, Emergency Care [Level B]

Faculty of Health, University of Canberra

03/2016 – 01/2018

Associate Professor [Level D]

03/2016 – 01/2018

Discipline Lead and Deputy Head (Nursing) in Nursing and Midwifery [Level D]

10/2014 – 12/2016

Clinical Director, Bachelor of Nursing

12/2010 – 03/2016

Assistant Professor in Nursing and Midwifery [Level B/C]

Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

01/2018 – Present

Visiting Research Fellow, Emergency Care

Torrens Resilience Institute, Flinders University, South Australia

World Health Organization Collaboration Centre for Mass Gatherings and Global Health Security

02/2008 – Present

Adjunct Associate Professor

Nganampa Health Council

03/2023 – Present

Locum Registered Nurse, Pukatja, Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands

ACT Health

08/2008 – 02/2009

Critical Care Education Coordinator

03/2007 – 08/2008

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Canberra Hospital

08/2003 – 03/2006

Registered Nurse, Emergency Department / Intensive Care, Canberra Hospital

08/2002 – 08/2003

Registered Nurse, Graduate Nurse Transition Program, ACT Health

Calvary Health Care ACT

08/2011 – 06/2017

Registered Nurse (Casual), Emergency Department, Calvary Health Care ACT

02/2009 – 01/2011

Clinical Manager, Emergency Department, Calvary Health Care ACT

03/2006 – 03/2007

Clinical Development Nurse (After Hours), Calvary Health Care ACT

2021

Emerging Nurse Researcher/Scholar Award for the Oceania Region; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

2021

Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award for Excellence for an Early Career Researcher; Griffith University

2020

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DECRA]; Australian Research Council

2018

Vice Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence; Flinders University

2025

• Mathew S, Russell D, Zander K, Ranse J, Ford L, Hart M. (2025). The heat health burden on First Nations communities in under-resourced remote Australia. Wellcome Foundation Trust. AUD$4,056,789.
• Mathew S, Ford L, Cass A, Russell D, Ranse J, Vardoulakis S. (2025). Climate preparedness in very remote desert communities. NHMRC Targeted Call for Research: Climate-related health impacts and effective interventions to improve health outcomes 2024. AUD$999,525.20.
• Rutherford S, Ranse J, Xu Z, Matthews T, Lewis M, Franklin R. (2024). How are we reducing heat-health risk in Queensland and how will we know? National Emergency Management Agency — Disaster Ready Fund [QRATF/24/4863]. AUD$412,464.

2024

• Jones R, Gayed A, Sutton C, Clegg L, Arena A, Rice K; AIs: Usher K, Jackson D, Ranse J, Deady M, Bamberry L, Wong H. Mental health of first responders in rural Australia. Medical Research Future Fund — Early Career Researcher Scheme. AUD$344,920.70.

2023

• Wake E, Marshall A, Rolley A, George S, Ranse J, Banu S, Harris M, Campbell D, Forbes J, Czuchwicki S. Trauma activation. Gold Coast Collaborative Health Research Grant Scheme. AUD$90,000.

2022

• Muir R, Crilly J, Carlini J, Ranse J, Keijzers G, Whybrow S, Purdy E, Pellat R, Joshi H, Clough B, Scholz B. Mental Health GAP Training of Healthcare Providers (mhGAP-ToHP) in the Emergency Department: A feasibility and acceptability study of an adapted intervention. Gold Coast Collaborative Health Research Grant Scheme. AUD$99,845.85.
• Crilly J (co-lead), Muir R (co-lead), Ranse J, Keijzers G, Carlini J. Consumer engagement in emergency healthcare research: A national cross-sectional study. Emergency Medicine Foundation [EMJS-420-R38-2022]. AUD$39,278.

2021

• Crilly J, Keijzers G, Gerrard J, Palipana D, Ranse J, Greenslade J, Walters B, Padowitz A, Green D. AIs: Sweeny A, Zhang P, Huang Y-L, Sivakumaran P, Gilmour K, Marshall A, Stapelberg C, Gedmintas A. (2020). Comprehensive Outcomes that VERify the impact on Emergency Departments from COVID-19: The COVERED COVID study. Emergency Medicine Foundation. AUD$65,504.

2020

• Ranse J. (2020). Impact of mass gathering events on emergency healthcare services: Informing health service planning for safer communities. Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Research Council [DE200100235]. AUD$444,623.

1. Hagan, S. R., Crilly, J., & Ranse, J. (2024). The impact of alcohol-related presentations to emergency departments on days with a public holiday or sporting event: A retrospective cohort study. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1–7.
2. Wake, E., Ranse, J., Campbell, D., Gabbe, B., & Marshall, A. P. (2024). Follow-up after major traumatic injury: A survey of services in Australian and New Zealand public hospitals. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), 630.
3. Sweeny, A. L., Alsaba, N., Grealish, L., Denny, K., Lukin, B., Broadbent, A., Ranse, J., ... & Crilly, J. (2024). The epidemiology of dying within 48 hours of presentation to emergency departments: A retrospective cohort study of older people across Australia and New Zealand. Age and Ageing, 53(4).
4. Hammad, K., Chandra, Y., Taito, R., Naidu, M., Dean, A., Samsioni, Y., ... & Ranse, J. (2024). A retrospective observational study of COVID-19 mortality at a referral hospital in Fiji. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 36(4), 407–410.
5. Alcock, J., Crilly, J., Ranse, J., & Wardrop, R. (2024). Characteristics and outcomes of emergency department presentations brought in by police with and without an emergency examination authority: A state-wide cohort study. Australasian Emergency Care.
6. Jones, P. M., Sweeny, A., Branjerdporn, G., Keijzers, G., Marshall, A. P., Huang, Y. L., Ranse, J., ... & Zhang, P. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on emergency department presentations for mental health disorders in Queensland, Australia: A time series analysis. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 16(1), e12553.
7. Sweeny, A. L., Alsaba, N., Grealish, L., May, K., Huang, Y. L., Ranse, J., ... & Crilly, J. (2024). End-of-life care: A retrospective cohort study of older people who died within 48 hours of presentation to the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 36(1), 13–23.
8. Hagan, S. R., Crilly, J., & Ranse, J. (2023). Alcohol-related presentations to emergency departments on days with holidays, social, and sporting events: An integrative literature review. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1–10.
9. Wardrop, R., Ranse, J., Chaboyer, W., Young, J. T., Kinner, S. A., Crilly, J., & Mental Health in Emergency Department Research Investigators. (2023). Profile and outcomes of emergency department mental health patient presentations based on arrival mode: A state-wide retrospective cohort study. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 49(6), 951–961.
10. Wu, W. J., Hutton, J., Zordan, R., Ranse, J., Crilly, J., Tutticci, N., ... & Currie, J. (2023). Scoping review of the characteristics and outcomes of adults presenting to the emergency department during heatwaves. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 35(6), 903–920.
11. Wardrop, R., Ranse, J., Chaboyer, W., & Crilly, J. (2023). Characteristics and outcomes of patient presentations to the emergency department via police: A scoping review. Australasian Emergency Care, 26(3), 239–248.
12. Sweeny, A. L., Keijzers, G., Marshall, A., Hall, E. J., Ranse, J., Zhang, P., ... & Crilly, J. L. (2023). Emergency department presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): Interrupted time series analysis. Medical Journal of Australia, 218(3), 120–125.

• Ranse J. (2022). COVID-19 planning and safety for festivals; panellist for the Australian Festival Industry Conference 2022, Gold Coast, Queensland, 30 August.
• Ranse J. (2021). Byrne C (Moderator, Griffith Asia Institute). Queensland Future Conversations Parliamentary Briefing Series: Queensland tourism in the new norm; world-leading topic expert at Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane, Queensland, 21 May.
• Ranse J. (2021). Eades D (Moderator, BBC). Industry, cultural and political mass gatherings; webinar panellist via Zoom at the World Health Organization, 14 January.
• Ranse J. (2021). Khan A (Moderator, Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine). Mass gatherings during sporting events; webinar panellist via Zoom at the Saudi Arabian Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, 10 January.

• Khan A. (2023). Ranse J (Moderator). Global health security in the context of mass gathering events, via Zoom, 13 September.
• Ranse J (Interviewee), Cuthbertson J (Producer). (2021). Novel respiratory viruses in the context of mass gathering events: A systematic review to inform event planning from a health perspective. World Association for Disaster Emergency Medicine Podcast, Series 1, Episode 14, 16 September. Podcast link.
• Ranse J (Interviewee), Castro A (Producer). (2020). Mass gatherings in the COVID pandemic. The Raodie Medic Podcast, Series 1, Episode 2, 16 June. Podcast link.
• Ranse J (Interviewee), Connell C (Producer). (2020). Mass Gathering Health. This Emergency Life, Series 1, Episode 12. Podcast link.

Emergency Department, Calvary Health Care ACT

02/2009 – 06/2010

Research Portfolio

Intensive Care Unit, Canberra Hospital

03/2007 – 08/2008

Research Coordinator

Research Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Practice, Canberra Hospital and University of Canberra

11/2005 – 10/2006

Research Assistant

Griffith University Disaster Management Research Network

07/2024 – Present

Lead

01/2022 – 06/2024

Health Group Lead

Menzies Health Institute Queensland

02/2021 – 01/2023

Co-lead, Patient-Centred Health Services Research Group

01/2018 – 06/2024

Member

Mass Gathering Collaboration

11/2019 – Present

Founder

University of Canberra — Faculty of Health

03/2016 – 01/2018

Discipline Lead and Deputy Head (Nursing) in Nursing and Midwifery [Level D]

02/2017 – 01/2018

Academic Secondment, Synergy: Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre [0.2 FTE]

10/2014 – 12/2016

Clinical Director, Bachelor of Nursing

World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

05/2017 – Present

Chair, International Mass Gathering Health Section

06/2015 – 05/2017

Chair Elect, International Mass Gathering Section

College of Emergency Nursing Australasia [CENA]

02/2014 – 10/2016

Company Director

10/2015 – 10/2016

Associate Executive Director

02/2014 – 10/2015

Financial Director

Australian College of Nursing

05/2011 – 03/2020

Chairperson, Disaster Health Community of Interest

St John Ambulance Australia

06/2008 – 06/2011

Chief Nurse

08/2004 – 08/2008

Company Director, Australian Capital Territory

Griffith University

01/2023 – Present

Associate Professor [Level D]

Faculty of Health, University of Canberra

12/2010 – 01/2018

Assistant Professor in Nursing and Midwifery [Substantive Level B/C]

06/2010 – 12/2010

Sessional Lecturer [Level B]

Emergency Nursing Association

11/2021 – Present

Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) Instructor

Australian Resuscitation Council

03/2019 – Present

Advanced Life Support (Level 2) Instructor / Course Director

11/2018 – 02/2019

Advanced Life Support (Level 1) Instructor

Faculty of Health, University of Canberra

04/2010 – 05/2010

Clinical Facilitator

ACT Health

08/2008 – 02/2009

Critical Care Education Coordinator

10/2005

Resuscitation Workshop Facilitator

03/2005 – 08/2006

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Workshop Facilitator

03/2005 – 08/2007

Acute Care Nursing Program Presenter

08/2003

Self-Directed Learning Education Package Development

Calvary Health Care ACT

03/2006 – 03/2007

Clinical Development Nurse (After Hours)

2021

Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award for Excellence for an Early Career Researcher; Griffith University

2021

Emerging Nurse Researcher/Scholar Award for the Oceania Region; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

2020

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DECRA]; Australian Research Council

2018

Vice-Chancellors Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence; Flinders University

2013

Fellow; College of Emergency Nursing Australasia

2012

National Service Medal, 1st Bar; St John Ambulance Australia

2010

Fellow; Australian College of Nursing

2009

Membership of the Order of St John Ambulance; St John Ambulance Australia

2008

National Service Medal; St John Ambulance Australia

2005

National First Aid Champion, Team Event (as Team Leader), St John Ambulance Australia National First Aid Competitions, Melbourne, Victoria

2004

Australian Capital Territory Emergency Medal; January 2003 Bushfire Disaster; ACT Government