Prof Julie Redfern

Professor Julie Redfern PhD FAAHMS FESC GAICD is a Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University. Professor Redfern currently holds a NHMRC Investigator Grant Leadership 2 (winner of NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Health Services). She is also a Physiotherapist, and Adjunct Professor in Sydney Nursing School Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Professor Redfern is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAAHMS) and the European Society of Cardiology (FESC). 

Awards won a 2021 NHMRC Research Excellence Award and the 2022 NSW Woman of Excellence Award, 2022 Australian Cardiovascular Alliance Mentor Award, a University of Sydney Vice Chancellor's Award for Leadership and Mentoring in 2021, has been a NSW Tall Poppy and winner of CSANZ and ACRA researcher awards. Professor Redfern’s team also won the 2022 Australian Clinical Trials Alliance  Consumer Involvement Award ( EMPOWER-SMS trial) and were a finalist for 2023 Research Australia Data Innovation Awards (QUEL trial). Professor Redfern is also a volunteer surf life saver and won the 2022 NSW Surf Life Saving Volunteer of the year and led her club (as Director of Administration) to win the highly prestigious 2024 Australian Surf Life Saving Club of the year.

National and international leadership includes being a current member of the Board of the World Heart Federation, is a previous Emerging Leader (2015) and Member of the Science Committee (2022-2024). She is currently a member of the Scientific Committee and Education Trust Board of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) and previously served a 6-year term on the CSANZ Board as Chair of the Allied Health and Technology Council. She is also the current Chair of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance (ACvA) Scientific Advisory Committee and co-Director of the Implementation and Policy Flagship.

Mentoring and supervision has included >24 postdocs and >28 HDR students with many having been successful with NHMRC Investigator Grants, Heart Foundation Fellowships and prestigious Awards such as the Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science (Dr Stephanie Partridge, Dr Stephanie Partridge (sydney.edu.au)) and NSW Cancer Council Outstanding Early Career Researcher (Dr Anna Singleton Dr Anna Singleton (sydney.edu.au)). She has also been a formal mentor for the Franklin Women and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Mentoring Programs. Professor Redfern was also Research Academic Director (0.2FTE), Researcher Development in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney for 4 years.