Gillian Caughey

Professor Gillian Caughey (BSc Hons, PhD, FISPE) is the Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Pharmacoepidemiology, Associate Director of the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre and a NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L1 2024-28). Her research focuses on improving the care and health outcomes for the older population, with a specific focus on aged care using large population-based data and registries. This includes a strong focus on safety and quality of care, health outcomes, health service delivery and examination of medication utilisation, effectiveness and safety. Since the Royal Commission into Aged Care she has been a key contributor to shaping national aged care policy and practice through her membership of several reform committees/boards (e.g., Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, Aged Care Research & Industry Collaboration) and commissioned work that informed the expansion of the National Aged Care Quality Indicator Program and multidisciplinary care models. Prior to this she was Director of Research at Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Adelaide Hospital (Adelaide University). Her research to date, has a strong translational focus on improving health outcomes for the older population and is internationally recognised for her work focused on medicines safety and utilisation in older people with multimorbidity and polypharmacy.