Lisa Nissen

Professor Nissen is Director, and Taylor Family Chair, of the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH) at The University of Queensland. She has been a prominent health practitioner leader, educator, researcher, and implementation scientist nationally and internationally for more than 25 years. Professor Nissen focuses on strategic collaborations across the healthcare continuum with key partnerships in government, professional boards, associations, university, and other industry and consumer groups. These have led to the implementation of multiple complex practice change interventions. She has a proven record of bringing together these groups to focus on establishing multidisciplinary care teams to provide consumer-centric health care.

A pharmacist by training, her research has driven major health system change, notably leading to the introduction of immunization services by pharmacists throughout Australia and more recently the Urinary Tract Infection Pharmacy Pilot – Queensland, both Australian firsts.  She is a member of the Queensland Health Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board, the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand Board, and the AHPRA scheduled medicines expert committee. Lisa is a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, the Hong Kong Practicing Pharmacists Association and the International Pharmacy Federation.