Southern Cross University | Australia
Prof. Jennene Greenhill is a distinguished international leader in socially accountable health research and education, committed to influencing health policy for rural and disadvantaged communities. As Chair of Nursing at Southern Cross University she leads a major Bachelor of Nursing and postgraduate programmes in mental health and healthcare leadership, represents her faculty within the Council of Deans of Nursing & Midwifery, and regularly meets with chief nursing officers across New South Wales and Queensland. She is an active member of Climate Action Nurses and helped establish the new Planetary Health in Nursing & Midwifery Collaborative. Her prior appointments include Principal Research Fellow at University of Western Australia, Associate Dean and Director of Rural Health at Flinders University, and Deputy Chair of the South Australian Health Performance Council. Her scholarship spans health workforce, transformative learning, aged care and health service improvement for underserved settings. She has supervised and examined more than twenty higher degree research candidates and led international teams whose work has transformed rural health services. Her research achievements are reflected in an h-index of 29 with over 3,120 citations across more than 1,600 documents. With more than AUD 9 million in research funding secured, and foundational roles in national education innovations such as the NHET-Sim programme, Jennene’s influence permeates policy, education and rural health service delivery. She continues to shape the future of nursing and allied health in ways that promote equity, rural workforce capacity and planetary health.
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Featured Publications
Kirubakaran, S., Kumar, K., Worley, P., Pimlott, J., & Greenhill, J. (2025). How to establish a new medical school? A scoping review of the key considerations. Advances in Health Sciences Education.
Kirubakaran, S., Kumar, K., Worley, P., Pimlott, J., & Greenhill, J. (2025). Establishing new medical schools in diverse contexts: A novel conceptual framework for success. Medical Education.
Aggar, C., Craswell, A., Bail, K., Compton, R. M., Hughes, M., Sorwar, G., Baker, J., Greenhill, J., Shinners, L., & Nichols, B. (2024). A toolkit for delirium identification and promoting partnerships between carers and nurses: A pilot pre–post feasibility study. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Hamiduzzaman, M., Kuot, A., Greenhill, J., Strivens, E., Parajuli, D. R., & Isaac, V. (2023). Person-centred, culturally appropriate music intervention to improve psychological wellbeing of residents with advanced dementia living in Australian rural residential aged care homes. Brain Sciences, 13(7), 1103.
Wilding, C., Morgan, D., Greenhill, J., Perkins, D., O’Connell, M. E., Bauer, M., Farmer, J., Morley, C., & Blackberry, I. (2022). Web-based technologies to support carers of people living with dementia: Protocol for a mixed methods stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(5), e33023.