Researcher biography

Dr Claire E Brolan (PhD (Public Health) MA LLB (Hons) BA) is an interdisciplinary health academic and qualified lawyer (non-practicing). Her PhD (UQ) and Post-Doctoral Studies at The University of Toronto (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) investigated the integration of health and human rights law and policy in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 Agenda implementation by countries. Claire aims to advance impactful research that meaningfully contributes to equitable, accountable, rights-based health policy and planning, as well as health service and health system access and outcomes for disempowered populations in Australia and internationally. Claire has worked on several prestigious international and global health policy research projects (such as with the Ministry of Health Vietnam, European Union, Bloomberg Philanthropies), and has over 60 peer reviewed and other publications. These include first-authored publications in The Lancet, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Medical Law Review, Oxford Journal of Human Rights Practice, and Medical Journal of Australia. Claire is an Honorary Advisor and SDG 3 Thematic Expert on the Legal and Economic Empowerment Global Network’s human rights and SDG advisory board to the UN, the community representative on the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s Global Health Emergency Care Committee, and is the medical sector representative on the International Humanitarian Law Committee, Australian Red Cross (Qld). Claire is highly skilled at performing inclusive and collaborative multi-stakeholder policy, governance, qualitative and socio-legal mixed methods research on complex health equity and sustainable development issues.