Sarah Dennis
Professor of Allied Health
Lives in Leichhardt, Australia
Sarah Dennis is Professor of Allied Health at the University of Sydney. Sarah’s research focuses on equity and access to high quality primary care, especially health services provided by allied health professionals.
Her research draws on implementation science methodology and has a health services and policy focus. The aim is to provide the evidence needed to inform policy change in Australian primary care – it is a slow process but I am determined to change health service access for the better, especially for vulnerable populations.
She wants to reverse the inverse care law, so that those with the greatest need finally receive the high quality health care required. For the last three years she has been named Australia’s leading primary health care researcher. Sarah’s education journey took her from studying whole humans, physiotherapy in Sheffield, then very small bits of humans, MSc in physiology from UCL, and finally she settled on populations of humans, PhD in epidemiology from Queen Mary, University of London, before moving to Sydney in 2003.
She is passionate about developing the next generation of health services researchers. Part of her role is funded by the public health system to develop research capacity in allied health clinicians and mentors the next generation of health service researchers. She has been a mentor for the Franklin Women program twice – this program is for women in STEMM in New South Wales, Australia.
Outside of work, Sarah is a Masters rower, a keen cyclist and skier. She is an avid reader and devotee of podcasts.
