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Professor Yun-Hee Jeon (RN, PhD, MNRes, BHSc) is the Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing at the University of Sydney, where she directs StepUp for Dementia Research and StepUp for Ageing Research. As a leading Australian researcher in psychogeriatrics and gerontology, she focuses on person-centered care, reablement programs, and workforce capacity building in aged care. She holds affiliations with the
- Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies
- Sydney Environment Institute
- Charles Perkins Centre
- Brain and Mind Centre
- Sydney Policy Lab
- Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Her research spans dementia rehabilitation, social health in cognitive decline, and clinical leadership in aged care. Notable projects include the Interdisciplinary Home-bAsed Reablement Program (I-HARP) and international collaborations with institutions like Johns Hopkins University, Radboud University, and University College London. She supervises postgraduate students in dementia care and chronic disease research while developing educational tools such as the ACFI-informed education tool and CLiAC training program.
Professor Jeon has received numerous awards including The Healthy Ageing 50 (UN Decade of Healthy Ageing), SUPRA Supervisor of the Year, and Fondation Médéric Alzheimer Award. Her work emphasizes citizen science, medication safety, and policy innovation in aged care. She leads initiatives like the Charles Perkins Centre Citizen Science node and contributes to global dementia research networks.
