Her research interests include public policy concerning medicines, quality use of medicines, pharmacoepidemiology and adverse drug events. She is currently project co-director for a national initiative funded by the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs to improve medicine use in the Australian Veteran population. In 2003–04 she was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. She has been a member of the Federal Government's expert advisory committee on Quality Use of Medicines, the Pharmaceutical Health And Rational use of Medicines (PHARM) committee. She is currently a member of Federal Government's Drug Utilisation Sub-Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, the evaluation working group of the National Prescribing Service and a Board member of Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd.