Julie Redfern is a Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. A practicing physiotherapist, Julie holds a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship, is Co-Chair of the CSANZ Clinical and Preventative Cardiology Council, a Member of Education Trust and ACOR Board. From 2009-2016 she was the Chair of the Allied Health Council and represented that group on the Board for those 6 years. She has been awarded over $30 million in peer reviewed grants and published over 180 peer reviewed manuscripts in high-ranking journals.
In 2020 Julie was Chief Investigator of the team who was awarded an inaugural $5 million NHMRC Synergy Grant for a project that will reform cardiac rehabilitation and care for people with heart disease.
The project: Solving the long-standing evidence-practice gap associated with cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (SOLVE-CHD). The goal of the project is to modernise after-hospital care, provide the best quality support to more patients and reduce the number of people who die or have to be readmitted to hospital.