Lee Woods

Dr Lee Woods is an internationally recognised leader in digital health workforce capability and education. She is Senior Research Fellow and Lead of the Workforce & Education Team at the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC), University of Queensland. Her academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing (2005), Graduate Certificates in Clinical Nursing (2009) and Research (2019), First Class Honours (2015), and a PhD (2019). She also completed a four-year Fellowship by Training with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (2021) and advanced co-design and design thinking training through the University of Sydney and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (2016–2017).

Dr Woods has an H-index of 17, more than 790 citations, and has secured over AUD$2.9M in research funding. She leads an interdisciplinary team of 4 researchers and 6 doctoral students, with supervision completions including 1 PhD, 2 Masters, and 1 Honours. She served as Guest Editor for the Australian Journal of Rural Health special issue on digital interventions (2024).

Her leadership includes major projects such as the Queensland Health digital maturity assessment, which informed the refresh of Queensland’s state-wide digital health strategy Digital Health 2031 and measured 165 health services representing 56,000 consumers. She also helped lead the Embedding Digital Health Education into Health Degrees initiative, a global first in establishing a nationally agreed core curriculum for pre-registration health degrees. Dr Woods co-authored two national workforce strategies and co-developed Australia’s first health workforce fellowship program in digital health.

She is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, was the Chair of the National Digital Health Early to Mid Career Conference (2024) and holds advisory roles in digital health education and research across Australia. Her contributions have been recognised through awards for industry engagement, service, and diversity, and she was selected to meet with Ministers of Parliament in Canberra (2023). Internationally, Dr Woods represents Australia on the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Society and leads an AU–UK partnership to develop an AI literacy career framework for healthcare workers. She will deliver a keynote at the Perioperative Nurses International Conference (2026).