Professor Gillian Harvey

Professor Gillian (Gill) Harvey is Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Implementation Research in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She has a clinical background in nursing and research expertise in implementation science, knowledge translation and facilitating evidence-based practice.

Gill is a Deputy Director (Knowledge Translation) in the College's Caring Futures Institute and Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in 'Optimising Health Care in the Home for Older Australians' (2025-2030. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Implementation Science at Queensland University of Technology.  Gill leads a program of applied health services research with a focus on implementation science, evidence-based practice and achieving improvement in complex systems, particularly around improving care and care transitions for older people. With Professor Alison Kitson, Gill is one of the developers of the widely used implementation science framework, Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services or PARIHS. In 2015, the PARIHS framework was revised to produce the integrated or i-PARIHS framework, described in the 2015 book ‘Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare’.

Previously Gill has held academic positions in Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester and in Adelaide Nursing School, University of Adelaide. Prior to working in academia, she was Director of the UK Royal College of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Program and Director of the National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE) National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care.