ProfessorKirsten McCaffery

Professor Kirsten McCaffery, BSc Hons Psych, PhD Psych, FAHMS is a behavioural scientist and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney. She has over 400 publications including 389 peer reviewed journal articles.  She has a national/international reputation in shared decision-making, health literacy, and the assessment of psychosocial outcomes raising >$60M in research funding.  She has had five successive NHMRC Fellowships/Investigator Grant (L2) and held appointments at the University of Sydney since 2002 currently as Director of Policy and Prevention and Director of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab (>45 staff). McCaffery is the behavioural research lead for Wiser Healthcare, a $16.5M research collaboration between U Sydney, Bond, Wollongong and Monash, and CIA of Wiser’s most recent CRE 2022-2026.