Rate My Professor Brennen Mills

Brennen Mills is an Associate Professor and active researcher in Paramedical Science and Public Health in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Edith Cowan University awarded in 2016, a Bachelor of Science (Public Health) with Honours from Curtin University of Technology awarded in 2010, and a Bachelor of Health Science with a major in Human Movement and Public Health from the University of Western Australia awarded in 2009. Mills serves as Chair of the School of Medical and Health Sciences Ethics Subcommittee. His research areas and interests include virtual and augmented reality, pre-hospital education and training, simulation-based learning environments, interprofessional education and practice, skills acquisition, eye-tracking, and health promotion. He is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Simulation Australasia, the West Australia Simulation in Healthcare Alliance, and the VR/AR Association. Mills teaches courses including MMP6100 Evidence-Based Practice, MMP6102 Medical Science Masters Project, and HST2122 Health Research Methodology.

Mills has received numerous awards and recognition, including the Western Australia 2024 Young Tall Poppy award, Australian Information Industry Association National iAwards Finalist in 2024 in the Tech platform category, Indian Ocean Defence & Security Innovation Awards Winner in 2024 in both the Emerging Technology category and the Collaboration Innovation category, 33rd West Australian Information Technology and Telecommunication Alliance INCITE Awards Winner in 2024 in the Innovating Government category, Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards Merit Award Winner in 2023, multiple additional iAwards and INCITE Awards in 2022 and 2023 across categories such as Government & Public Sector Solution, Research & Innovation, and Social Impact, and the Edith Cowan University Early and Mid-Career Researcher Symposium 2023 Presentation Award – People’s Choice. His professional contributions center on the development and evaluation of innovative technologies and high-fidelity simulation-based learning environments for education and training in paramedical science and public health, with recent research outputs addressing topics such as out-of-hospital birth training and experiences, aggression and violence in emergency departments, virtual reality training for de-escalation, and related areas in health promotion and simulation.