Lisa Nissen

Professor Lisa Nissen is a prominent academic and healthcare leader at The University of Queensland (UQ), serving as Director of the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH) and Taylor Family Chair. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from UQ and has over 25 years of experience as a practitioner, educator, and researcher in healthcare systems. Her work focuses on health workforce optimization, interprofessional collaboration, and expanding healthcare scopes of practice, particularly for pharmacists. She led pivotal initiatives like Australia's first pharmacist-administered immunization and UTI management pilots. Nissen has supervised over 80 research students and authored over 180 peer-reviewed articles. Her grants include UQ's HERA Health Workforce Optimization program and studies on healthcare access equity. She sits on multiple health governance boards, including Queensland's Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board.

Research interests include medication safety, pharmacist prescribing roles, digital health, and chronic disease management. Notable projects include deprescribing tools for elderly patients and antimicrobial stewardship policies. Nissen's work has driven legislative changes in Australia, such as expanded pharmacy scopes. She collaborates with government, professional bodies, and industry to design innovative healthcare models. Current research explores pharmacist-led services in contraception, opioid stewardship, and aged care medication administration.

Grants total over $9M in recent years, supporting studies like the ACTMed pharmacist intervention trial and the ALLIANCE contraceptive counseling project. She advises on pandemic response and healthcare workforce planning. Nissen's expertise bridges academic research and practical healthcare system improvements, emphasizing multidisciplinary teamwork and consumer-centric care.