Dr Clare Bradley

Dr Clare Bradley is a non-Indigenous woman living and working on the lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples. She is a Senior Research Fellow within the Trauma & Injury group in Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health.

Clare holds a PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Adelaide and has worked in health and aged care services research for over two decades, maintaining a continuous connection with Flinders University throughout her career.

Her academic journey began at Flinders’ Research Centre for Injury Studies (2003–2014), where she led the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s National Injury Surveillance Unit program on falls and injuries among older people. Under the leadership of Professor James Harrison, she contributed to a broad portfolio of injury and Big Data research.

From 2014 to 2017, Clare was a Senior Research Fellow in Flinders’ Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, working with Professor Maria Crotty and the NHMRC's Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre. She then took on roles at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and the University of Queensland’s Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, supporting Professor James Ward’s sexual health and infectious diseases research program and establishing the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance Network—Australia’s leading Indigenous health research data infrastructure (2017–2024).

Clare returned to Flinders to help build the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care workforce program within the College of Nursing and Health Sciences’ Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) initiative.

She is now thrilled to be back in the College of Medicine and Public Health’s Discipline of Trauma & Injury, where she brings together her extensive experience in health services research. Clare is the Project Coordinator for Associate Professor Courtney Ryder’s Transforming HEalth and Wellbeing Outcomes from Injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait IsLander Children (HEAL) E-Cohort Study. Her role draws on her expertise developing person-linked data infrastructures, injury epidemiology and outcomes research, and her strong advocacy for health equity, culturally safe research, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.