Caring Futures Institute – Ageing and Aged Care Area of Focus

Director, Registry of Senior Australians Research Centre (ROSA)

Prof Inacio is an epidemiologist with expertise in population health surveillance, registry development and leadership, registry science, and health services research. She is the Director of the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre at SAHMRI, Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Epidemiology at Flinders University Caring Futures Institute, and a NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow. Prof Inacio was trained at the Dartmouth Centre for Evaluative Clinical Sciences (MS 2002) and University of California, San Diego (PhD 2013). Between 2004-2015 Prof Inacio worked at Kaiser Permanente, the US largest integrated healthcare provider, in the development of registries. 

Since 2017 Prof Inacio has developed the ROSA Research Centre program and team. Prof Inacio’s research has resulted in significant contributions to the understanding of the individuals in the aged care sector nationally and how quality and safety of care can be efficiently monitored for this sector. Prof Inacio and the ROSA team have delivered several reports to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and Department of Health and Aged Care that have informed federal level recommendations and new national programs.

In her career, she has been awarded several competitive grants, including grants as CIA from NHMRC and MRFF, published over 215 scientific articles, which are highly cited, making her one of the 2022 Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% most cited scientists internationally. She is an editor for the Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research journal since 2014 and was a Deputy Medical Editor for the Medical Journal of Australian between 2022 and 2024.  She was a Hospital Research Foundation Mid-career Fellow between 2020 and 2023 and Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science Mentee between 2019 and 2023.

• Quality and safety of aged and health care
• Methods to leverage existing data collections for population health surveillance and care improvement
• Unwarranted variation in care practices and outcomes

• Epidemiology
• Health services
• Population health
• Gerontology
• Musculoskeletal disease
• Quality and safety monitoring
• Surgical outcomes

Prof Inacio has also been awarded several institutional (2019 SAHMRI Research Translation, Diane Ranck Leadership, and Mid-Career Awards), national (2020 Information Technology in Aged Care Award, 2020 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award, 2021 The Advertiser Sunday Mail’s Woman of the Year- Top Innovator), and international awards (2018 US Orthopaedics Research Foundation Clinical Research Award).