Professor Sharon Mickan is the inaugural head for the Healthcare Innovation program at Bond University which is designed to support health professionals to navigate the research evidence, critically evaluate health systems and practices and implement clinical improvements. Sharon’s research interests are focussed on translating research evidence, implementing organisational improvement and building clinicians’ research capacity and engagement. 

Sharon was previously Professor of Allied Health at Gold Coast Health and Griffith University, where she led a program of research to engage allied health clinicians as research users, participants and leaders. In this role, Sharon designed, implemented and evaluated multiple research capacity building initiatives including introducing allied health research fellows, knowledge brokering strategies, evidence-informed journal clubs and clinical backfill grants. Previously, Sharon was Course Director of the Masters in Evidence-Based Health Care at the University of Oxford.