Prof Megan Passey

Professor Passey is a medical graduate trained in epidemiology and public health. She leads the Daffodil Centre research stream on Tobacco Behaviour Change and implementation , having joined the Centre in July 2023. She was previously the Director of Research at the University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH), a rural clinical school of the University of Sydney, providing strategic and operational leadership to the UCRH’s research program, strengthening research capacity and engagement with key stakeholders, and contributing to executive leadership within the Centre. She has worked internationally (Papua New Guinea, Iraq and the USA) and in rural Australia and has experience within government health services in policy development and implementation roles. She blends this understanding of health services and systems with her research expertise to undertake health services research particularly in relation to complex interventions. Her research focuses on reducing health inequities by addressing priority needs of rural and Aboriginal communities.