Rate My Professor Virginia Mumford

Virginia Mumford is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. She also holds an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position at the University of Tasmania. Mumford qualified as a doctor with an MBBS from St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London in 1982 and worked in acute care before transitioning to finance. She earned an MBA in Finance from City University Business School, London in 1987 while working as a financial trader in London and Hong Kong. She later pursued health administration, obtaining a Master of Health Administration from the University of New South Wales in 2006, followed by a PhD in Health Economics from the same university in 2015. Her doctoral thesis evaluated the costs and benefits of health services accreditation in Australian hospitals. Following her PhD, she joined Macquarie University as a post-doctoral Fellow in 2015, was promoted to Research Fellow in 2018, and advanced to Senior Lecturer. During her PhD, she worked at the Centre for Health Economic Research Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney.

Mumford's research applies health economics, econometrics, and implementation science to evaluate complex interventions in health services, with focuses on patient safety, clinical governance such as hospital accreditation, paediatric medication errors, virtual care, electronic medication management systems, point-of-care testing in rural settings, and genetic testing for motor neurone disease and refractory epilepsy. She is a NSW Health EMC Fellow evaluating the Delirium Clinical Care Standard in acute care. Mumford has produced 59 research outputs, including 26 peer-reviewed papers since 2011, with 8 as first author. Notable publications include "Harm to Children from Prescribing and Administration Errors in Acute Care: A Multidisciplinary Panel Assessment" (2025, Drug Safety), "Do Patient Safety Incident Investigations Align with Systems Thinking? An Analysis of Contributing Factors and Recommendations" (2025, BMJ Quality & Safety), "Co-producing Patient-Reported Experience Measures with People with Intellectual Disability to Improve Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: The 'Listen to Me' Project Protocol" (2025, Health Expectations), and "Associations between Double-Checking and Medication Administration Errors: A Direct Observational Study of Paediatric Inpatients" (2021, BMJ Quality & Safety; Wiley Top Cited Article 2020-2021). Her contributions have been recognized with the 2022 Macquarie Business School Impact Competition award for evaluating medical tests, devices, and procedures, and Editor's Choice for a 2024 paper in Australian Health Review.