Professor Lena Sanci

Prof. Sanci is a local GP at Sexual Health Victoria, and Chair of General Practice and Head of Department of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Melbourne. She was previously Chief GP Advisor to the Victorian Department of Health. 

Prof. Sanci has over two decades of expertise in medical curriculum design, co-design methodologies, implementation science, evaluation, and clinical trials and cohort studies in primary care and online settings. Her specific research interests are about improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people through primary care and educational or workplace settings, and health services research to improve the consumer experience. She has a wide network of national and international research collaborators.

Other current appointments or memberships:

• Melbourne Academic Centre for Health, Co-Chair, Primary Care Committee
• Victorian Department of Education Doctors in Secondary Schools Program, medical advisor
• Australasian School Based Health Association, President
• Centre for Digital Transformation of Healthy, University of Melbourne, advisor
• Collaborative Practice Centre, University of Melbourne, advisor
• TROPHI (Translating Research Outcomes into the Primary Health Interface), leadership committee member
• APPRISE (Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies), Co-lead, long covid project