Before and alongside my university teaching, I've designed education for the health workforce. Between 2003 and 2008 I led the development and delivery of health impact assessment training for NSW Health, training more than 200 NSW Health staff through in-person block training followed by email and telephone support while they applied the approach to real proposals, and I then supported similar capacity building for Queensland Health's Tropical Population Health Service (2008-2009). We described this "learning by doing" model in two publications, and I gave an invited plenary on it at New Zealand's first Health Impact Assessment Practitioner Workshop in 2008. Out of that work I developed Australia's first Masters-level course in health impact assessment, UNSW's PHCM9628, which I convened from 2007 to 2011 and which UNSW offered for 17 years.

• Harris-Roxas, B., & Harris, P. (2007). Learning by doing: The value of case studies of health impact assessment. NSW Public Health Bulletin, 18(9-10), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.1071/NB07104
• Harris, E., Harris-Roxas, B., Harris, P., & Kemp, L. (2013). "Learning by doing": Building workforce capacity to undertake HIA: An Australian case study. In M. O'Mullane (Ed.), Integrating health impact assessment into the policy process: Lessons and experiences from around the world (pp. 99-108). Oxford University Press.

More recently, I co-led the Primary Health Network component of a health literacy education and capacity building project funded by the Mental Health Commission of NSW (2019-2022), working with 10 Primary Health Networks to develop, implement and evaluate a paired coaching model of experiential learning. In 2021 NSW Health experts and I developed a free online training module for community workers on the harms of shisha smoking and where to refer clients for support, which more than 300 people have completed. I am currently a chief investigator, with Holly Seale and colleagues, on the NSW Health-funded Priority Populations Immunisation Training Program (2025-2028).

Across my career I have been a chief investigator on $2.85 million in education and capacity-building grants (total grant value):

• NSW Ministry of Health, Priority Populations Immunisation Training Program (2025-2028), $410,162
• Mental Health Commission of NSW, Production, Delivery, and Evaluation of a Health Literacy Approach and Materials (2019-2022), $1,200,000
• Tropical Population Health Service, Queensland Health, Health Impact Assessment Capacity Building Project (2008-2009), $60,000
• NSW Ministry of Health, NSW Health Impact Assessment Project, Phase 3 (2005-2007), $999,000
• NSW Ministry of Health, NSW Health Impact Assessment Project, Phase 2 and extension (2003-2004), $185,000