Rate My Professor Lynne Emmerton

Professor Lynne Emmerton serves as Professor at Curtin University’s Curtin Medical School within the School of Pharmacy. She specializes in pharmacy practice research and teaching. Joining Curtin University in August 2011 as Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Practice, she has progressed to Professor and taken on key leadership roles, including three years as Interim Dean of the Curtin Medical School. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland for ten years, following two decades of academic and research experience at other Australian universities. Emmerton holds a BPharm (Hons), a PhD, and MPS.

Her research specializations center on pharmacy practice, with a focus on the safe and effective use of medicines in community settings. Key interests include consumers’ online health information-seeking behaviors and implications for pharmacy practice, mobile health apps to facilitate self-care in chronic disease management, needs analysis for medical cannabis among people with chronic non-cancer pain, pharmacist-delivered asthma management services, and evaluation frameworks for health literacy-responsiveness among health professional students. Emmerton led the comprehensive course review of the School of Pharmacy’s postgraduate coursework degrees from 2011 to 2013 and has extensive experience supervising postgraduate research. Her major publications encompass “Mobile Health Apps to Facilitate Self-Care: A Qualitative Study of User Experiences” (Anderson et al., 2016), “Consumer Use of ‘Dr Google’: A Survey on Health Information-Seeking Behaviors and Navigational Needs” (Hoti et al., 2015), “Consumers’ Experiences and Values in Conventional and Alternative Medicine Paradigms: A Problem Detection Study (PDS)” (Emmerton et al., 2012), “App Chronic Disease Checklist: Protocol to Evaluate Functionality and Usability” (Anderson et al., 2016), and “Development of an Evaluation Framework for Health Literacy-Responsiveness of Undergraduate Health Professional Students” (Ogundipe et al., 2023). Through multi-professional collaborations, her work advances pharmacy education and community health practices.