Rate My Professor Sarah Larkins

Sarah Larkins specializes in health systems strengthening, with expertise in health services and workforce research, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, socially accountable health professional education, rural health workforce, primary health care, and maternal and child health. She has authored over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters, achieving an h-index of 35 and more than 4100 citations. Key publications include 'Does use of GP and specialist services vary across areas and according to individual socioeconomic position? A multilevel analysis using linked data in Australia' (2024), 'Association of individual-socioeconomic variation in quality-of-primary care with area-level service organisation' (2023), 'Mission and role modelling in producing a fit-for-purpose rural health workforce' (2023), and 'Exploring the evidence base for Communities of Practice in health research and translation' (2023). Her research has secured over $97 million in grant funding, including seven current NHMRC/MRFF grants. She supervises 14 higher degree research students and has overseen 21 PhD completions. Awards include Highly Commended Research Australia Health Services Researcher of the Year (2022), Office of Learning and Teaching National Program Award (2013), and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners National Registrar Research Prize (2003). Past roles encompass co-chair of the Primary and Chronic Care Panel for National Living Evidence Guidelines for COVID-19 and member of WHO Technical Working Group on Health Workforce Education Assessment Tools.