Dr Clare Bradley

Dr. Clare Bradley is a non-Indigenous woman living and working on the lands of the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples. She is also a Senior Research Fellow with ARIIA, Aged care Research and Industry Innovation Australia.

Clare has a PhD from the University of Adelaide and has worked in the health and aged care services research sectors for over twenty years. She has been connected with Flinders University for all of that time.

Clare's academic career started with her role with Flinders' Research Centre for Injury Studies (2003–2014), where she led the AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit’s falls and older people’s injury program and contributed to a diverse program of injury and big data research under the leadership of Professor James Harrison. Clare then moved to Flinders' Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care (2014–2017) where she was a Senior Research Fellow with Professor Maria Crotty and the NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre. In 2017, Clare moved to the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, and then to the University of Queensland’s Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, contributing to Professor James Ward's sexual health and infectious diseases research program and establishing the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance Network, Australia’s leading Indigenous health research data infrastructure (2017–2024). Clare continues to hold associate roles with Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity, SAHMRI, and the University of Queensland.

Clare has now returned to Flinders to contribute to ARIIA's Workforce Capacity and Capability stream. The role draws on Clare's experience and passion for developing highly practical, evidence-based, and sustainable innovations to strengthen capacity in the health and aged care workforce.