Professor Gillian Caughey

Professor Gillian Caughey (BSc Hons, PhD, FISPE) is a Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Pharmacoepidemiology, and Associate Director of the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and Flinders University. 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, and health outcomes, health service delivery and examination of medication utilisation, effectiveness and safety.

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. She is currently supervising PhD students undertaking research in multimorbidity, polypharmacy and the identification of patients at high risk of adverse medicine events; models of care for multimorbidity and impact of frailty and geriatric assessment on treatment outcomes using large population-based data. Professor Caughey is recognised both internationally and nationally with a strong track record in research translation to improve clinical practice and policy for aged care and older people in Australia. She is named in Stanford's World’s Top 2% Scientists.