Clare Bradley

Dr Clare Bradley is a non-Indigenous woman living and working on the lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples. She is a Senior Research Fellow within the Trauma & Injury group at Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health and an Honorary SRF with the University of Queensland's Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. With over two decades in health and aged care services research, Clare’s work has focused on injury and infectious disease surveillance, health services research and Big Data infrastructures.

Following over a decade's work in injury epidemiolology and aged care services research, Bradley’s First Nations health research experience was advanced by roles at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and UQ Poche. Here she supported Professor James Ward’s sexual health and infectious diseases research program and established the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance Network—Australia’s leading Indigenous health research data infrastructure (2017–2024). Working directly with ACCHOs nationally, Clare led the development of ATLAS’s data extraction, linkage and analysis pipeline and collaboration with stakeholders to embed use of the surveillance data in Continuous Quality Improvement activities, national infectious disease surveillance reporting, and research. Her MRFF 2020 Primary Health Care Research Data Infrastructure Grant (PHRDI000054, CI-A) contributed substantially to the success of this work.

Now back at Flinders University, Clare's role as Study Coordinator with Associate Professor Courtney Ryder's Transforming HEalth and Wellbeing Outcomes from Injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait IsLander Children (HEAL) Cohort Study brings together her expertise in developing research infrastructures using person-linked data, injury epidemiology and outcomes research, and her strong advocacy for health equity, culturally safe research, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.