Sally Redman
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New South Wales Cancer Council
National Breast Cancer Centre
Sax Institute
Sally Redman | |
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| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Employer(s) | University of Newcastle New South Wales Cancer Council National Breast Cancer Centre Sax Institute |
Sally Redman AO is a New Zealand-born Australian public health researcher and chief executive officer of the Sax Institute in Sydney, where she leads the 45 and Up Study,[1][2] an NSW-wide project with over 260,000 participants responding to questionnaires on healthy ageing.[3]
Redman has a BA in psychology (1978) and a PhD (1982) from Victoria University of Wellington.[4]
She moved to Australia and, in 1984, joined the University of Newcastle as a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine.[5] In 1994–95 she was employed by the New South Wales Cancer Council.[5] In 1995 she was appointed the inaugural CEO of the National Breast Cancer Centre, where she worked until becoming the inaugural CEO of the Sax Institute in 2002,[5] where she encouraged the use of research evidence in Australia-wide health policy making.[4]
As of 2021, she is also a conjoint professor at the University of Newcastle.[6]