Yvonne Zurynski

Yvonne Zurynski is Associate Professor, Health System Sustainability, and leads the activities of the central coordinating unit of the NHMRC Partnership Centre in Health Systems Sustainability.

Yvonne has broad experience and expertise in research and education across health sectors and disciplines having conducted research in settings ranging from primary care to intensive care. She recently led the evaluation of integrated care initiatives across the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) and maintains research collaborations with the Integrated Care team at SCHN. For the last 12 years she was the Director of Research, Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, the University of Sydney, and from 2011-2015 she was the chair of the International Network of Paediatric Surveillance Units. Her focus is on conducting research that makes a difference in the real world. Her research supported changes to child restraint law in Australia, the development of clinical guidelines and vaccination policy. She has an interest in health services and health systems responses to the increasing challenge of chronic disease from an implementation science and complexity science perspectives. She has an interest in patient/family and healthcare provider experiences of the health system including health services use, transition between paediatric and adult services, health costs and out of pocket expenses. Yvonne has expertise in conducting epidemiological studies, systematic reviews, clinical research studies, service model and policy evaluations using mixed methods designs. She is engaged with several consumer groups and regularly involves these groups in research. She was a key member of the steering committee for the establishment of the national Paediatric Active Disease Surveillance system, and the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Australian Registry (FASDAR). She has expertise in research ethics and was a member of the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (Health subcommittee).

She has attracted approximately $7million in research funding over her career. She has published widely and regularly reviews for national and international per review journals.

Yvonne is an experienced post-graduate research supervisor at Masters and PhD level. She currently convenes the Systems Science in Healthcare unit of study in the Masters of Public Health.

Yvonne has previously held positions at the University of Sydney, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and Westmead Hospital. She has honorary appointments at the University of Sydney, Kids Research, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and the University of Tasmania.