Professor Julie Redfern

Julie Redfern is a Professor of Public Health, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and a Physiotherapist. Professor Redfern currently holds a NHMRC Investigator Grant Level 2 for which she won the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Health Services. She also recently won the NSW Woman of Excellence Award, a University of Sydney Vice Chancellor’s Award for Leadership and Mentoring and an Australian Cardiovascular Alliance Award (ACvA) for Mentoring. She has been a Chief Investigator on research grants totalling $30M in the past 5 years and has published over 230 manuscripts. She is currently a member of the Scientific Committees for the World Heart Federation and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and is co-Director of the ACvA Implementation and Policy Flagship. She is also Principal Investigator of the NHMRC Synergy grant, SOLVE-CHD, and has over 20 years of experience developing, testing and implementing scalable strategies to close evidence-practice gaps and improve health outcomes.