Sabine Allida

Dr Sabine Allida is a Research Fellow (Implementation Science) at the Centre for Chronic & Complex Care Research at Blacktown Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) and the School of Nursing, University of Wollongong and an Honorary Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health.

Her research focus on enhancing health service delivery to improve cardiovascular health outcomes. She is an emerging leader and expert in complex evidence synthesis and have led several high impact Cochrane reviews (gold-standard for informing policy and practice) in stroke and heart failure. Dr Allida’s research is cited in healthcare guidelines published by the Stroke Foundation, American Heart/Stroke Association, American College of Cardiology/Heart Failure Society of America and National Institute for Health and Care Research.

Dr Allida is a member of the WSLHD Scientific Advisory Committee responsible for the scientific review of research applications submitted to the WSLHD Human Research Ethics Committee. She is the School of Nursing Research Culture and Capacity Coordinator responsible for implementing research training activities to strengthen and expand the School of Nursing’s academic staff and higher degree research (HDR) student’s research capabilities. This involves strategic and operational management of research–capacity–building activities such as journal clubs, research seminars, HDR fora and writing retreats. Since 2018, she has been a member of the psychology working group for the Australasian Living Stroke Guidelines responsible for reviewing and updating recommendations for Chapter 6: Managing complications – Mood disturbance.

She leads a research program focused on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke prevention in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. She is currently leading a project to co-design a culturally tailored, evidence-based, digital CVD and stroke prevention educational-behavioural program for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities for which she received the competitive UOW Advancement and Equity Grant. She is also the Lead Research Fellow of INFORM-AF II, a trial of an m-Health delivered education program to prevent stroke for people living with atrial fibrillation funded by the Stroke Foundation Nancy and Vic Allen Prevention Memorial Grant.