Stakeholder engagement
Our approach
We work closely with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure our research is relevant, impactful, and translated into practice. Our work in pharmacoepidemiology and real-world evidence sits at the intersection of research, healthcare delivery, and policy, making stakeholder engagement essential to achieving meaningful outcomes.
We aim to build collaborative, long-term partnerships with organisations and professionals across the health sector. By integrating stakeholder perspectives throughout the research lifecycle, we ensure our work addresses real-world challenges, informs decision-making, and contributes to improving health systems and patient outcomes.
Why stakeholder involvement matters
Stakeholders bring critical system-level knowledge, practical expertise, and implementation insight that strengthen the relevance and impact of our research. Their involvement helps to:
- Identify priority areas aligned with health system needs, service delivery challenges, and policy directions
- Strengthen study design by ensuring feasibility, applicability, and alignment with real-world practice
- Support ethical, governance, and regulatory processes through informed input and collaboration
- Facilitate dissemination and translation of findings into clinical practice, health services, and policy
- Enable implementation of evidence-based strategies that improve medication use and health outcomes
Stakeholders are not expected to contribute academic or methodological expertise unless relevant to their role. Instead, their primary contribution is providing insight into how research can be effectively applied in practice and systems.
Building partnerships
Our stakeholder partnerships are intentionally diverse and interdisciplinary. Our collaborators may include:
- Healthcare providers and service organisations across primary, secondary, and tertiary care.
- Policy-makers and representatives from government and regulatory bodies.
- Professional organisations and peak bodies representing clinicians and health sectors.
- Industry partners involved in medicines, data, or health innovation (where appropriate and transparently managed).
- Academic collaborators and research networks.
We are committed to engaging stakeholders across metropolitan, regional, and rural settings to ensure our work reflects the breadth of the Australian healthcare landscape.
Our commitment
We are committed to fostering respectful, transparent, and mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders. We prioritise collaboration that is ethical, independent, and focused on improving healthcare quality and outcomes.
By working together with stakeholders over the long term, we aim to ensure our research not only generates high-quality evidence but also drives meaningful change in healthcare systems, policy, and practice.