Safeera Y Hussainy
Associate Professor Safeera Hussainy is the Senior Pharmacy Research Manager at Peter Mac, where she is responsible for leading the research strategy and building the capacity of the department. Safeera has worked in community and academic pharmacy sectors for nearly two decades – her practice and teaching experience has informed her program of research in the innovation, implementation, evaluation and scale-up of health services delivery in primary care, with a focus on expanding pharmacists’ scope of practice. Areas of research activity include palliative care, health literacy, communication skills, women’s health and sexual and reproductive health. Safeera is a CI on the SPHERE NHMRC CRE and the MRFF ALLIANCE trial to which she contributes her expertise in women's, sexual and reproductive health and pharmacy based health services research.
Safeera has expertise in mixed methods, qualitative and education innovation research, and experience in implementation research including knowledge translation and dissemination to effect policy and practice change. A key health policy change that has occurred as a result of her research and advocacy to the peak professional pharmacy body is the major revision of the national pharmacy clinical guideline for emergency contraception and its renewal every few years to reflect the evolving evidence base in this clinical area.
Specific methodologies and theoretical frameworks that Safeera has applied and uniquely adapted to various research contexts include but are not limited to: point prevalence surveys; scoping, systematic and narrative reviews; focus groups using a modified nominal group technique to elicit stakeholder priorities; simulated patient methodology including mystery caller studies and the development of performance checklists as is done in student OSCEs, but to assess pharmacists’ behaviours and advice to simulated patients acting out case scenarios in the real-life pharmacy setting; cluster randomised controlled trials; process evaluation; the Theoretical Domains Framework; Intervention Mapping; the Theory of Planned Behaviour; Diffusion of Innovation Theory; the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability; and the Person-centred Contraceptive Care Framework.
Safeera is keen to expand her knowledge of programme theory, systems change/systems science and multiple health economic evaluation frameworks in developing and evaluating complex health interventions, in particular for women to reduce gender/racial/economic disparities in sexual and reproductive health and in cancer care.
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