Professor Gillian Caughey (FISPE) is the Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Pharmacoepidemiology at the Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University and Associate Director of the Registry of Senior Australians Research Centre, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, where she co-leads a team of 32 researchers. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow (2024-2028). Gillian is a pharmacoepidemiologist whose research focuses on improving the care and health outcomes for the older population, with a specific focus on aged care using large population-based data. This includes examination of medication utilisation, effectiveness and safety, development of quality indicators to monitor the safety and quality of care and health service delivery. She has made significant clinically relevant contributions contributions to her field and is internationally recognised for her work on medicines safety, multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the older population, using large population-based data or registries. She has collaborated with Australia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, authoring key reports on clinical indicators of quality and safety of care, to develop a national outcome monitoring system for Australia’s aged care population and contributing to subsequent national aged care policy and practice reforms.