ProfessorNancy Baxter

Professor Nancy N. Baxter is Deputy Dean, Research Centres in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. She is an internationally recognised clinician-researcher and academic leader whose work focuses on improving the quality, equity, and impact of healthcare through rigorous, real-world research.

Professor Baxter’s research program centres on health services and outcomes research, with particular expertise in cancer prevention and screening, surgical quality and safety, and the use of large-scale linked health data to evaluate how care is delivered in practice. Her work has directly informed clinical guidelines, health system policy, and quality improvement initiatives in Canada and internationally.

As Deputy Dean, Research Centres, Professor Baxter provides strategic leadership across the Faculty’s major research centres and institutes, strengthening research performance, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and supporting translation of discovery into policy and practice. She is committed to building research environments that enable excellence, collaboration, and meaningful societal impact, particularly in areas of unmet need.

Professor Baxter has held senior academic and clinical appointments in Australia and North America and has published extensively in leading international journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Lancet family of journals. She is a Fellow of multiple professional organisations and is widely recognised for her contributions to research leadership, mentoring, and health system improvement.