The University of Sydney Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery

Margaret studied Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, MPhil Public Health and her PhD at the University of Sydney and is Director of Nutrition and Dietetics and a teaching and research academic. Her current interests are in public health nutrition and include determinant research using quantitative and qualitative methods and evidence synthesis via systematic review. She is also expert in nutritional behaviour change interventions and health promotion. A longstanding interest is in adoption of new technologies for more objective dietary assessement methods. 

FDA FNSA

Chair Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Nutrition

Dr. Su Htet Htet Aung is a highly experienced Registered Nurse who has practised in a senior nursing position in Singapore and Australia. She has many years of clinical experience in medical and surgical nursing. Her career is marked by a strong commitment to education and mentorship, having played a pivotal role in clinical teaching and professional development for nursing staff and students. Her doctoral research offers valuable insights into the lived experiences and support needs of caregivers for patients with head and neck cancer in Australia. This work contributes meaningfully to the body of knowledge in oncology nursing and caregiver support, with implications for policy, practice, and future research.

RN, BSN, MAN(Adult Health Nursing), GradCertClinEd, MACN, FHEA

Jay is a nurse academic and researcher within the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, with extensive teaching and clinical experience across medical and surgical nursing and palliative care. He currently teaches and coordinates acute care nursing practice and palliative care units of study across pre-registration and post-registration nursing programs, in both Australian and Singapore-based programs.

His doctoral research examined how nurses reconcile cultural values and care approaches in end-of-life care. This body of work, supported by the inaugural Daffodil Centre Postgraduate Research Scholarship, was a multi-study, cross-country investigation conducted in Australia and Malaysia, generating evidence on the tensions nurses experience delivering end-of-life care within culturally situated contexts. Findings were presented at several national and international conferences. Building on this work, Jay's research program aims to generate evidence to strengthen workforce inclusion and belonging, and culturally responsive healthcare practice.

Professor Michelle Barakat-Johnson is an award-winning scholar and internationally respected clinical expert in skin integrity, pressure injuries and complex wound care. With over two decades of experience in clinical and research leadership, she specialises in innovative, evidence-based approaches that improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical practices, and reduce healthcare costs.

Professor Barakat-Johnson works in a joint appointment as the Skin Integrity Lead at Sydney Local Health District (SLHD).Professor Barakat-Johnson collaborates with leading scholars, industry partners and policymakers in Australia and around the world to deliver impactful research programs. Since 2019, she has been Chief Investigator on six competitively-funded Q1 research grants, Lead CI on four with >$9,000,000 secured in funding. She has led multicentre multi-method clinical trials including the recruitment of over 2000 patients and built strategic partnerships with leading scholars and institutions. Her goal is to elevate the University of Sydney as a top five global leader in the field.

Professor Barakat-Johnson completed a PhD Research Program 'Getting to the bottom of hospital-acquired pressure injuries in one local health district'. This used an implementation science framework across four hospitals involving over 1,000 nurses and 1500 patients. Interventions resulted in a 51.4% decrease in hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) incidence, 71.6% in prevalence and a 23.2% cost reduction (over $827,000 per annum). This research changed NSW state policies and was recognised with multiple awards including the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence (University of Sydney), 'Excellence in Innovation in Research', (NSW Health Nursing and Midwifery Awards), 'National Action Award' (Sax Institute for Research), 'People's Choice Award' at the Research Innovation Symposium held in 2017 and the 'Patient Safety Quality Award' (Sydney Local Health District).

Professor Barakat-Johnson led a research program focused on Incontinence and Associated Dermatitis with research conducted over five local health district regions which delivered a 36% reduction in IAD prevalence (P=0.159), 55% decrease in pressure injuries (PIs), and reduced hospital length of stay from 44 days to 25 days (p=0.029). This research has informed the development of a comprehensive statewide toolkit for effective IAD practice implementation across diverse healthcare settings which is now adopted by the Clinical Excellence Commission.

Recognised for her leadership in digital wound care solutions, Professor Barakat-Johnson co-chaired a working group from 14 Local Health Districts to implement Wound iView; a platform designed for comprehensive wound documentation. She then led a clinical trial testing a wound care app known as Tissue Analytics. The aim of implementing the wound care app was to have a standardised and efficient tool for image capture, automated analysis and to help clinicians monitor and treat wounds effectively. This successful innovation with technology as an enabler to support clinicians and improve patient outcomes was further developed to launch the Nurse-led Wound Care Command Centre 2023. A first in Australia, this centre uses existing virtual hospital infrastructure, cutting-edge digital and virtual solutions supported by wound specialists and an AI wound app. Its remarkable outcomes across all benchmarks include reduced wait times from 13.4 days to 2 hours, significantly improved wound healing (48% average wound size reduction), reduced hospital separations, high patient satisfaction rates (90.5%) and an incredible $1,156,127.63 in cost savings realised in 14 months. In 2024, the Wound Care Command Centre was the winner of the NSW Awards Transforming Patient Care, the NSW Premiers award for Highest Quality Healthcare and the Sydney Local Health District Innovation Award.

Professor Barakat-Johnson has formed the co-badged University of Sydney and SLHD Institute of Tissue Repair. Leveraging her partnerships with the University of Huddersfield in the UK and The Welsh Wound Innovation Centre to understand existing strategies and models, she has secured industry funding with the Institute scheduled to launch in 2024. Key pillars including innovation and real-time implementation, education and global collaboration. She is also designing an APAC wound-care course targeting a wide-range of healthcare sectors ranging from clinical nursing through to aged-care providers. This course is being developed after an extensive needs analysis and is designed to be flexible and adaptable for undergraduate, post graduate and professional development programs.

Professor Barakat-Johnsons' work has impacted policy and guidelines; both locally and globally. She is an advisor for leading international committees focused on skin integrity, pressure injury prevention and wound management. She chairs statewide committees related to wound care and was the invited Chair of the NSW Wound Care and Skin Integrity Working Group for the Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR). She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence and is regularly invited by state, national and international bodies to consult and present on skin integrity, implementation science and pressure injury prevention.

PhD CHFEP FAIDH

Professor Melissa Baysari is a human factors researcher, Certified Human Factors and Ergonomics Professional, and leads the Digital Health Human Factors Group in the Sydney Nursing School.

Her research focuses on safety and usability of health technologies, with a particular focus on the design and evaluation of computerised decision support.

Melissa has secured >$35M in research funding as a Chief Investigator, and has published widely in the areas of medication safety, electronic prescribing and decision support. Importantly, her research has resulted in a number of significant changes being made to electronic medical record systems, as well as to hospital policy and work practices. She has many ongoing collaborations with government, industry and health services and all her research projects represent partnerships with healthcare organisations. Melissa also leads the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Human Factors and AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support. 

I am a registered and credentialed mental health nurse with over 30 years of clinical experience across inpatient and community settings, specialising in practice development, staff training, and clinical supervision. Since 2020, I have worked as a lecturer in mental health nursing at the University of Sydney, teaching in the Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies) and coordinating units in the Master of Nursing (Pre-registration) programme.

RN, BN MN PGDip(Midwifery) UTS PGDip(Healthcare Ed) PhD Lond

Jacqueline Bloomfield is a Professor of Nursing Education within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the UniversityofSydney.With over 20 years of experience in healthcare education,she is an academic of national and international standing with a record of substantial achievement in senior health education leadership, management, teaching and, relative to opportunity, research.

Professor Bloomfield is the Director of International Programs. This includes the Bachelor of Nursing (Post-registration), delivered in Singapore, where is responsible for the development and provision of high-quality, pedagogically sound education. She is also responsible for ensuring the quality of education and clinical experiences for students engaging in international placements.

Previous senior educational management roles at Sydney Nursing School include Director of International Strategy (2017- 2019), Associate Dean-Education (2015-2017),Director o fPre-registration NursingPrograms (2013- 2015). At King's College London she held the position of Head of Post-registration nursing (2009-2012).

Professor Bloomfield is an accomplished teacher, and in 2019 was made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She is Chief Specialty Editor for Frontiers in Medicine- Health Professions Education, an international Q1 journal. She has extensive experience in curriculum development and regularly chairs accreditation panels for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council.

RN, BSc(hons), MN, PhD

Dr Tom Buckley is Professor of Advanced Practice Nursing and Deputy Head of School, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Tom has been a registered nurse since 1991 and has practised in senior nursing positions in the UK, USA and Australia in specialties such as nephrology, intensive care and acute cardiology.

Tom is currently an Editor of Australian Critical Care as well as editor of Lewis' Medical-Surgical Nursing text (Australian Ed).

Dion is a National Heart Foundation of Australia Postdoctoral Fellow and aims to modernise cardiac rehabilitation programs through health system re-design, so more Australians with heart disease attend and complete rehabilitation, reduce ongoing cardiovascular risk, and maximise health outcomes. He also leads an Australian Government-funded (MRFF Grant) cluster randomised controlled trial that aims to improve the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation through collaborative quality improvement.

Dion is President-Elect of the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA). He is the current Secretary of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (ICCPR). He is a Science Committee member of the Euripean Society of Cardiology (ESC) Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions (ACNAP) and an International Committee member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN). He is also an Executive Board Member of the Xi Omicron Chapter-At-Large of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

Dion has won highly prestigious and coveted awards and prizes for his research, including the 2023 Research Dissertation Award given by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the 2022 Cardiovascular Nursing Council Rising Star Award (PhD student) and 2020 Cardiovascular Nursing Prize awarded by Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ).

He has extensive tertiary and clinical teaching experience and is passionate about supporting undergraduate nursing students, higher-degree research students, and fellow early-career researchers. He has co-supervised five Honours students to completion (all First Class and four University medal recipients).

Prof Carey is the Professor of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Practice at University of Sydney (0.4FTE). She works as manager of Nutrition and Dietetics (0.6FTE) at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, including a clinical workload as the Intestinal Failure Specialist Dietitian. She is the past President for the Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN), and past co-chair of the Home Enteral Nutrition network for the Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI). She completed her PhD in 2014, and was awarded an MRFF Translating Research Into Practice Fellowship in 2018. In 2024 she was awarded New South Wales Allied Health researcher of the year.

PhD BSc(Psych Hons 1) GDipAppSci (Med US) BAppSc(MRS)

Dr Carrigan is a Senior Research Fellow within the Digital Health Human Factors Group at the University of Sydney. 

With a PhD in cognitive science and qualifications in psychology, sonography, and radiography she brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to health services research. She currently leads a co-designed, mixed-methods project to develop, implement, and evaluate a best-practice virtual model of care for aged care residents and general practitioners. Her expertise in human factors, the scientific discipline that studies how people interact with systems, products, and environments to optimise safety, performance, and user experience, is widely recognised. Ann is an experienced mixed-methods researcher who works across diverse health settings and populations including emergency clinicians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and older adults. 

Dr Virginia Chan is a Lecturer and Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) in the School of Nursing at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on leveraging technology to improve dietary assessment and nutrition research. She has particular expertise in image-based dietary assessment, wearable technologies, and innovative methods for capturing real-world eating behaviours.

Virginia's research aims to improve the accuracy, feasibility, and scalability of dietary assessment while generating insights that support healthier food choices. Her work has explored the use of wearable cameras to better understand dietary behaviours. More recently, her research has expanded into food systems and sustainability, including the development of strategies to reduce food waste and improve sustainability across healthcare and community food environments. 

Dr Chaseling is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow at the University of Sydney and leads the Aging and Chronic Diseases Theme within the Heat and Health Research Centre. Dr Chaseling is an emerging leader in thermal, environmental, and cardiovascular physiology with extensive experience conducting research investigating how the human body interacts with extreme environments. Her research focuses on protecting vulnerable populations from the negative health effects of heat extremes, and has worked across numerous vulnerable populations (pregnancy, multiple sclerosis, the elderly), to research sustainable and economical accessible cooling strategies that are widely accessible.

Dr. Chaseling is on the World Heart Federation Air Pollution and Climate Change Expert Group and a Member of the Heat and Health Research Centre, an Impact Centre in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She chairs the Professional Development Committee within the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association and serves on the Climate Cardiology Working Group within the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. 

Dr Chaseling is open to taking on PhD, Masters and Honours students.

Dr Juliana Chen is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (Dietitians Australia). Juliana is a senior lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Sydney. Juliana's dietetics health services research, which commenced through her PhD, has driven innovation in the delivery of virtual patient dietetic care, particularly via implementation of mobile health apps in the nutrition care process. This research has informed population digital health policies by NSW Ministry of Health. Her expertise was also drawn upon for the Dietitians Australia's position paper on telehealth, released in response to the COVID-19 pandemic impact on traditional in-person dietetic care. Juliana also is nutrition lead of the AU-ARROW multidomain lifestyle intervention to reduce dementia risk (part of the World?wide FINGERS network), where she has combined her dietetics and research excellence to ensure translatable dietary intervention delivery through blended in-person and virtual care. Prior to joining the University of Sydney as a lecturer, Juliana worked as senior dietitian in Macquarie University's Health Sciences Centre (MQ Health) and the Nepean-Blue Mountains Family Metabolic Health Service. There she delivered effective medical nutrition therapy for prevention and management of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, metabolic syndrome, amongst others.

Professor Mary Chiarella is Professor of Nursing at Sydney Nursing School and an internationally renowned nurse leader with a distinguished career in nursing services. She has qualifications in Nursing, Midwifery and Law and conducts research covering three broad themes: (a) safety & quality (b) law, ethics and regulatory issues; and (c) improvements in nursing practices/models of care. Professor Chiarella’s over-40-year career began as a clinical nurse in the UK. She established the world’s first postgraduate degree in midwifery (Doctor of Midwifery) at UTS, which has been completed by many of Australia’s and New Zealand’s current midwifery leaders. In 2001, as Foundation Professor of Nursing at Corrections Health (now Justice Health) with UTS, she was instrumental in developing key competence requirements for the organisation’s nurses and in the official recognition of a new scope of practice for Nurse Practitioners in NSW, the Justice Health Nurse Practitioner. As Chief Nursing Officer for NSW Health (2003-2004) she helped achieve a significant increase in the number of Nurse Practitioners in NSW and initiated the development of the framework for the first publically-funded home-birth midwifery program in NSW. During her time as Chair of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council, she led the regulatory negotiations for nurses and midwives within the new national registration scheme. In 2008, Professor Chiarella was invited to the WHO Nursing and Midwifery Directorate, Geneva, to develop a compendium of nurse-led Primary Health Care models including a review of global models of care from 38 countries.In 2009, she was one of three independent board members of Health Workforce Australia appointed by the then Commonwealth Government Health Minister Nicola Roxon. From 2009 to 2015 she was the NSW practitioner representative on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and Chair of the Policy Committee of the NMBA. She is a Member (representing nursing) of the Clinical Ethics Advisory Council for NSW Health

Professor Chiarella was formerly a member of the NSW Law Reform Commission Division Working Group on minors' consent to medical treatment. She was a founding member of both the Australian Bioethics Association and the Australian Institute for Health, Law and Ethics.

Belinda Clough is a Registered Nurse with experience primarily in emergency, as well as haematology, oncology and primary health care in both Sydney and Darwin. Belinda has been involved in education and quality improvement projects throughout her nursing career and continues to work clinically in ED. Belinda has a particular passion for nursing advocacy and Aboriginal health and has published opinion pieces and academic research in these areas. 

RN, PhD, MHlthSc(Ed), BHlthSc(Nurs), DipAppSc(Nurs), TESOL Cert, Grad Cert Linguistic Research

Tonia is an Associate Professor and Director Academic Education at the University of Sydney. She has worked in academic settings since 2007, drawing on 20 years of clinical experience in hospital and community health nursing, and community development in Australia and internationally. Tonia draws on this experience to teach in Bachelor and Master of Nursing programmes.

Tonia has particular interest in health communication across diverse languages and cultures and have collaborated on successful grants and research projects. Her research focuses on enhancing communication and capabilities for inclusive disaster risk reduction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and other marginalised groups.  She also undertakes research informing nurse education and the development of academic and social supports, including the adoption of interactive and collaborative methods that strengthen the learning and cross-cultural interactions for students from CALD backgrounds.

AO, RN, PhD(UNSW), MsNurs(Hons)(UOW), GradDipCritCare(USYD), BNurs(UOW)

Kate Curtis AO, is Professor of Trauma and Emergency Nursing, University of Sydney, Director of Emergency Research for the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, RN Wollongong Emergency Department and the 2019 HESTA Australian nurse of the year.

Professor Curtis is one of the most successful and influential nurse researchers in Australia with international recognition the impact of her translational research in trauma and emergency nursing. Curtis has 33 years of front-line emergency nursing experience, substantial track record and high level expertise in the development, leadership and evaluation of interventions to improve care delivery using translational research. Methodologies include mixed methods, stepped-wedge RCTs and design using Behaviour Change Theory enhanced by completion of the University College London Centre for Behaviour Change Advanced Summer School in 2019. 

Professor Curtis founded and is Lead Investigator of the HIRAID^®project, a transformative framework designed to support emergency nurses in assessing and managing emergency department patients after triage. HIRAID^®has been successfully implemented and evaluation across 160+ rural, regional and metropolitan EDs in Australia. Read more about the largest ever trial conducted with emergency nurses here 

Curtis has published 280+ papers (95,311 reads, 6562 citations), 5 books (29,000+ copies sold), 19 book chapters and 11 high quality reports throughout her career. Curtis has an h-index of 45, i10-index of 162, is ranked 1st globally in the field of "emergency and trauma nursing" and "nursing behaviour change" (Scopus 2026).

Professor Curtis provides expert witness, consultant opinion and audit / investigation services

Grants and Fellowships:  >$30million in research funding for her program of research on paediatric injury, trauma systems, emergency nursing clinical assessment, including NHMRC TRIP fellowship (2013-15) and three CIA NHMRC Partnership Grants, six MRFF grants.

Invitations to speak: >38 invited or keynote presentations inter /nationally, eg New Delhi (2016), Helsinki (2018), London (2019), USA (2022), Sweden (2023-6), Canada (2025), Samoa (2026).

Prizes and honours. 49 awards in recognition of research leadership, including Officer of the Order of Australia for service to emergency and trauma nursing and academia (2025), 2024 USA ENA nurse researcher award, 2021/22, NSW Health “Health Research and Innovation” and Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Quality Improvement Award on “Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety”; 2019/20 HESTA Australian Nurse of the Year; 2019 NSW Premiers Award Providing World Class Customer Service, 2019 Staff member of the year ISLHD. In 2024 Curtis was admitted as a fellow to the American Academy of Nursing following a rigorous nomination process for extraordinary contributions to improve health locally and globally. In 2025 American Academy of Nursing (Academy) Edge Runner for HIRAID in recognition of  nurse-designed models of care that reduce cost, improve health care quality, advance health equity, and enhance consumer satisfaction.

Jillian is a registered nurse with an extensive clinical background in medical and surgical nursing and is currently involved and strongly committed to the clinical facilitation and professional development of pre-registration nursing degree students in the academic and health care settings.

Gaining extensive experience in perioperative nursing a specialty which focuses on teamwork and the delivery of optimal perioperative nursing care to the surgical patient has enabled Jillian to be exposed to a wide variety of surgical specialties including emergency and trauma surgery. In relation to the perioperative patient Jillian understands the importance of patient advocacy and the possession of a strong surgical conscience in achieving optimal health outcomes for the surgical patient. Jillian has undertaken postgraduate study in Perioperative Nursing and has completed the Definitive Surgical Trauma Care Course which focuses on the surgical and perioperative nursing management of the trauma surgical patient.

Jillian is currently teaching in the Bachelor of Nursing Program (Advanced Studies) and is strongly committed to the professional development of pre-registration nursing degree students in the academic setting by providing a supportive learning enviroment to achieve optimal student learning outcomes and delivering a high standard of evidence-based teaching. Jillian is committed to developing important student attributes to prepare students for the health workforce such as leadership critical thinking and decision making skills and communication skills to enable students to perform as an integral team member in the clinical setting and emphasising the importance of establishing strong therapeutic and collegial relationships to achieve optimal patient health  outcomes.
In her role as a Clinical Education Specialist (Education focused) academic Jillian is also responsible for the clinical facilitation of students in the clinical setting to support the delivery of a high standard of evidence-based nursing care to patients and their personal and professional development. Jillian in her role is also the International Student Advisor Clinical Support providing support and resources to visiting international nursing students undertaking clinical placements at health facilities in Sydney or academic studies during a semester at Sydney Nursing School.

Hannah Dean is a Lecturer (Education Focused) with the Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Advanced Social Work Practice from Charles Sturt University, graduating from her master's degree with a Postgraduate University Medal in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Hannah has also completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

Her professional social work experience spans senior and clinical roles across the violence, abuse and neglect sector, alongside extensive supervision, mentoring, and education of students and practitioners in rural and remote settings. Through her academic and professional roles, she is committed to strengthening the rural health workforce and supporting the development of future social workers and allied health professionals. Hannah also leads local social work networks and capacity-building initiatives that foster professional connection, workforce development, and practice excellence, contributing to the sustainability and growth of the social work profession in rural and remote communities. She was nominated for the ARHEN David Lyle Award in 2025 in recognition of her contributions to rural health education and leadership. Her work is driven by a passion for advancing rural and remote practice, fostering meaningful learning experiences, and building a sustainable and capable health workforce for rural and remote communities.

Hannah's research interests focus on rural health workforce development, rural health education, interdisciplinary learning, and improving responses to violence, abuse and neglect in rural and remote communities.

Elizabeth Denney-Wilson is Professor of Nursing in the Sydney Nursing School. She has academic qualifications in nursing, public health, epidemiology and implementation science. Since completing her PhD in 2005, her research has focused on obesity prevention and management with a focus on the development of brief interventions (including mHealth interventions) targeting infant and young child feeding. Most of her research focuses on the Primary Health Care setting working with clinicians to design and test interventions that can be implemented at scale. Her research funding has included three Centre of Research Excellence grants as well as other category 1 funding. Elizabeth has long term collaborations with researchers across a broad range of health disciplines from Australian and International universities.

She has 3 current and 14 former PhD students. Her teaching focuses on preventive care, social determinants of health, primary health care principles and research methods. She recently completed terms as a member of two advisory committees: the WHO committee on child obesity management and the NHMRC obesity management guidelines committee. She is on the board of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network and chairs the board Quality and Safety committee.

RN BN (USyd), PG Dip Public Health (Charles Darwin University) PhD (USyd)

Dr Moira Dunsmore is an early career researcher and senior lecturer with extensive interdisciplinary experience in nursing, public health, and health social science. 

Moira’s post-doctoral research focuses on the social experiences of older persons, particularly in the emerging area of dual sensory impairment (DSI) in older adults. Her research explores social capital and stigma in ageing, social relational aspects of caring, health care access, and social networks of older adults with DSI. Early collaboration with Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data at Sydney University (Vision Hearing Project [NHMRC]) and Vision Australia led to the completion of her PhD (2022) titled “An invisible disability: navigating the enduring state of dual sensory impairment (DSI) in older age” and further published research, such as the recently published book 'Dual Sensory Impairment: an invisible disability?' Lived Places Publishing, New York (2024).

Moira is a member of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP) at the University of Sydney, Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Ageing, and early career editorial board member of Nursing Reports.

Dr Rochelle Einboden is a registered nurse who has worked with children and families for over 20 years in Canada and Australia. Her research interests focus on using critical social theory and methods to explore health policy, programs and everyday nursing practices, in aim to enhance ethical practices and social justice, especially for children and families.