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Dr. Kate Churruca is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University's Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), specializing in the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science. Her work focuses on organizational culture, healthcare safety, and implementation science, with a particular emphasis on hospitals, aged care, and general practice. She leads the NHMRC Investigator Grant-funded project on safety culture in residential aged care and collaborates on projects addressing telehealth, genomics in primary care, and disaster preparedness.
Education: PhD in Medicine from Western Sydney University (2016). Research interests include safety culture measurement, unprofessional behavior in healthcare, digital triage systems, and learning health systems. She has supervised students on topics like aged care prioritization and gestational diabetes management via social media.
Key awards include Wiley Top Cited Articles (2019–2021) and an award for top-downloaded papers (2018–2019). Her projects span resilience-building in elderly care, genomics integration in primary care, and virtual care models. Active in international collaborations, including EU-funded resilience initiatives for elderly care workers.
Her contributions include over 200 publications and leadership in transformative healthcare projects, emphasizing evidence-based strategies to improve care delivery amid systemic challenges like climate change and pandemic impacts.
