Professor Sharon Brownie

Biography

Professor Sharon Brownie is the Director of Health Strategy and Partnerships working with our Executive Dean leading Swinburne University’s health expansion strategy. Sharon has a strong background in community engagement with proven expertise in working in partnership with professional entities, industry stakeholders and government both nationally and internationally. She is a capable health and social service researcher with extensive educational leadership, health service management and policy development experience. Her experience extends across the health, education, economic development, and employment sectors and her global perspective has developed through her work in Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, Fiji and the Middle East. Her leadership roles have included significant capacity building, workforce development, business growth and change management mandates.  While in these roles she has actively maintained practice and nursing licensure in both Australia and New Zealand.  Her initial doctorate evaluated New Zealand’s partnership-based public policy model for local and regional economic development and has underpinned her interest and roles in partnership-based capacity building.  Her leadership focus is strengthened by a second doctoral qualification, specifically, a PhD by published works entitled ‘Nursing in Health Service Leadership.’

She is an active researcher  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YlOhvKgAAAAJ&hl=en with 70 + peer reviewed publications plus various book chapter and ISBN reports in the past five years.  Her research interests include:   

• Partnership-based, interprofessional practice with health sector applications in collaborative care
• Interprofessional student-led health services
• Nursing and health workforce capacity building
• Competency-based education & training

She is passionate in her belief that quality health and education services should be available to everyone irrespective of their geographic location or socioeconomic circumstances.  Thus, she has worked in various rural and remote contexts improving service quality and access for marginalized and disadvantaged people.   She excels in roles with a stated strategic intent to build strong and sustainable social, educational and economic conditions and entities that improve community wellbeing and enable populations, communities and families to thrive and grow.