Adjunct Professor
Rosana Pacella

Biography

Rosana Pacella is Professor of Global Health and Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Faculty of Education Health and Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich. Prof Pacella has been the Director of the Institute for Lifecourse Development (ILD) since its launch in 2019. The ILD is a key anchor resource where professionals from many different fields work closely together with researchers and stakeholders from public, charitable and voluntary organisations to develop effective and economically sustainable lifecourse solutions for some of the grand challenges facing society. All aspects of the ILD research environment were judged to be of world-leading or internationally excellent quality in the UK Research Excellence Framework- REF2021. Prof Pacella also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research focuses on burden of disease and cost-effectiveness analysis, and she is a global expert on quantifying burden of disease attributable to violence including child maltreatment and bullying. Prof Pacella has led critical analyses to understand the impact of violence on health systems and overall population health, and the effectiveness of interventions to prevent and mitigate long-term consequences across the life course. Previously in the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) at QUT, she established and led a health services research team conducting economic evaluations of evidence-based wound management innovations and was awarded the QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Individual Award for the impact of this research on policy and practice. Prof Pacella was the principal investigator on the £1.3 (AUD2.3) million NHMRC project to conduct the first Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) 2019-23, before moving to the UK and remains a chief investigator on this study. Prof Pacella has played an important role internationally, in building capacity in burden of disease assessments among researchers who are employed or contracted by governments. More recently she has expanded her interests to training clinicians and researchers in cost-effectiveness methods. Prof Pacella has an h-index of 56 and over 60,000 citations. She has been awarded over £2.4 million in research funding from nationally competitive schemes. Prof Pacella obtained her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1993 and has supervised 5 PhD students to completion.