Associate Professor Jane Desborough (DAppScNursing; GDipMid; MPH, PhD) is a Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. She is a mixed methods researcher, who works closely with patients, clinicians and policy makers to conduct research that is responsive to their needs and preferences, and targets quality and outcomes improvement.

Jane holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2022 for which she is examining the experiences and preferences of Australian families and individuals on low, middle, and high incomes in managing the OOP costs of chronic disease.

Jane leads the Health Experience and Health Services Research Group in the Department of Health Economics, Wellbeing and Society. Her research team is comprised of academics, clinicians and health care consumers - providing many lenses of expertise to inform her research. The composition of the team is aimed at embedding the experiences and perspectives of people living with health conditions into the research from inception to implementation.

From March 2020 to November 2021 Jane worked on secondment to the Australian Government Department of Health as an Action Researcher alongside the COVID-19 Primary Care Response Group. This work included undertaking rapid reviews and evidence synthesis to inform policy decision making, and description and publication of the COVID-19 policy response for the academic record. 

Jane is a registered nurse and midwife, and has worked clinically in a variety of settings for 25 years, including remote area nursing. Before moving to academia, Jane worked as a Senior Policy Officer at the ACT Health Directorate in the Office of the ACT Chief Nurse.

Diploma Applied Science (Nursing); Graduate Diploma Midwifery; Masters in Public Health; PhD Population Health

• Patient, family, carer and clinicians' experiences and perspectives
• Consumer engagement and coproduction research
• Patient enablement
• Primary health care
• Quality measurement in health care
• Knowledge translation