Dr Clare Bradley is a Senior Research Fellow in the Trauma & Injury group within Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health. She is a non-Indigenous researcher living and working on the lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples.

Clare holds a PhD from the University of Adelaide and has over two decades of experience in health and aged care services research, and has maintained a strong connection with Flinders University throughout her career.

Following short-term roles in aged care and political sociology research, Clare's academic career began at Flinders’ Research Centre for Injury Studies (2003–2014), where she led the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s National Injury Surveillance Unit program on falls and injuries among older people. Under the leadership of Professor James Harrison, she contributed to a broad portfolio of injury and big data research.

In 2014, Clare joined Flinders' Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care as a Senior Reseach Fellow, collaborating with Professor Maria Crotty and the NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre to explore the influence of "small home" models of residential aged care on resident health, well-being and financial outcomes.

In 2017 she moved to the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, and then the University of Queensland’s Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. In these appointments she supported Professor James Ward’s sexual health and infectious disease research program and established the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance Network—Australia’s leading Indigenous health research data infrastructure (2017–2024).

Clare later returned to Flinders to help establish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care workforce program within the College of Nursing and Health Sciences’ Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) initiative.

She is now based in the College of Medicine and Public Health’s Discipline of Trauma & Injury, a role that consolidates her extensive expertise in health services research. Clare is Project Coordinator for Associate Professor Courtney Ryder’s HEAL Cohort Study (Transforming Health and Wellbeing Outcomes from Injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children). Her role draws on her experience in developing research infrastructures using person-linked data, injury epidemiology and outcomes research, and her strong commitment to health equity, culturally safe research, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

Dr Clare Bradley’s research focuses on injury epidemiology and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, with a strong emphasis on health equity and culturally safe research practices. Her work includes developing large-scale, person-linked data infrastructures, advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and creating evidence to inform injury prevention, treatment, and recovery strategies. Clare is particularly interested in governance frameworks for data management and community-led approaches that ensure research benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. She also continues to maintain an interest in Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual health and infectious disease treatment and prevention, as well as health and aged care service equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and by Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organsations, more broadly. 

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