Caroline Laurence
Medicine
University of Adelaide
Australia
Biography
Caroline Laurence is a health services researcher and is currently the Head of the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide. She is a recognised expert in the area of health workforce planning, particularly for the primary care sector. Her research has contributed to a greater understanding of the workforce pipeline in Australia including career decision making, workforce maldistribution, retention issues, changing workforce profiles and workforce policy analysis. In 2012, she was a recipient of the highly competitive and prestigious ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and she has used this funding to develop for the first time in Australia, a needs-based approach to planning the GP workforce in South Australia. This research has now been extended to Western Australia, Australia and the practice nurse workforce.
Research Interest
Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc
