Susan Taylor PhD

Susan Taylor is an occupational therapist in the area of hospital-based research since 2012. She has developed outcome measures for somatosensory function and guidelines for sensory evaluation in children with neurological conditions; provided research capacity-building opportunities for frontline clinical staff; validated outcome domains for the measurement of health, well-being, and quality of life in residential aged care; and developed a homeless health action plan to coordinate a strategic response to homeless health across funding, service delivery, and policy. Over the past 10 years, she has worked in senior research positions embedded within hospital and community organizations to inform decision-making. She currently works as Occupational Therapy Research Coordinator at Perth Children’s Hospital, as Senior Policy Officer for the WA Chief Allied Health Office, and as a University Associate, at the School of Allied Health, Curtin University. This combination of roles allows her to be at the forefront of pressing issues in health care. Her first passion is to facilitate consumer-directed policy-relevant research in health care for people across their lifespans. Her second passion is outcome measurement particularly focussed on how healthcare providers determine the impact of programs and services on client outcomes.