Medicine Safety: Challenges in the 21st Century

Professor Libby Roughead is a Bradley Distinguished Professor at UniSA and Director of the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre.

Professor Roughead’s research focuses on quantifying the extent of problems with medicines use, identifying the extent of harm from medicines, testing solutions for improving medicines use and evaluating improvements in health care.

Professor Roughead’s team is currently running the Medicines Advice Initiative Australia, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care to support health professionals to use medicines well.

This research focuses on 6 key areas: medicines safety, optimising medicine use, digital health, pharmacy practice, Aboriginal traditional medicines and evidence translation and policy.

Join Libby as she discusses changes in medicine use between the 20th and 21st centuries and the challenges we are now facing due to aging populations, increasing levels of disease, the development of new medicines with different ways of working, the introduction of digital health and the globalisation of medicines production. 

For the livestream/recording link, please email Chrissy.Berzel@unisa.edu.au