Jolyn Johal

Jolyn is a PhD candidate undertaking research in Healthy Ageing and Primary Care as part of a collaboration between Adelaide PHN and Flinders University. Her thesis explores the delivery of primary care services in residential aged care homes in Australia, with a focus on general practitioner services. 

As an accredited practising dietitian, Jolyn has a background in both clinical and research settings. Clinically, she has worked as a Senior Dietitian at the National University Hospital in Singapore for 6 years, and as an Aged Care Dietitian across various residential aged care facilities in South Australia. Jolyn was also a Field Editor at JBI where she developed and updated evidence summaries on a range of health and medical topics, for use by clinicians at point of care. She has since been working as a Research Assistant at Flinders in the fields of cancer survivorship and palliative care fields.