DrSujita Narayan

Dr Sujita Narayan is an Academic Fellow at the Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She is an early career researcher, with over 10 years' experience in examining the quality use of medicines in older adults. Prior to pursuing her research interests, Sujita trained as a pharmacist at the Fiji School of Medicine and has practiced in hospital and community settings, including resource limited settings. She specialised in the management of people living with HIV in her role as the STI/HIV Regional Pharmacist for 13 countries in the Pacific, and was involved in pooled procurement of antiretroviral medicines, clinical care and contributing to the upgrade of standard treatment guidelines in reducing transmission of sexually transmitted infections from parent to child. She completed her Master of Pharmacy Practice from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Following this she pursued her PhD examining the pharmacoepidemiological approaches to examine preventive medicines and multimorbidity in older people at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her seminal research during this time was the development and validation of the Medicines Comorbidity Index (MCI), a medicine-based index, specifically for older people, to quantify multimorbidity and predict outcomes of hospitalisation and mortality. In her role as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Sujita continued her research interests in vulnerable subgroup populations such as people with dementia, older people approaching end-of-life and those with life limiting illnesses. Her current research focuses on quality use of commonly prescribed pain medicines in older adults.