Distinguished Professor, Director of the Centre for Global Health and Equity, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
Richard is a prolific public health researcher, educator and program implementer. His teams have developed and implemented evidence-based and practical tools and processes to make substantive impacts on health and equity, not only at the project level, but at the state, regional, national, and international levels.
Richard Osborne is a prolific public health researcher, educator and program implementer. His teams have developed and implemented evidence-based and practical tools and processes to make substantive impacts on health and equity, not only at the project level, but at the state, regional, national, and international levels. Osborne is a Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and Director of the Centre for Global Health and Equity at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and holds appointments at Santé publique France, University of Copenhagen, and NOVA University Lisbon. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018, 2021) as the top 1% most influential researchers globally, having published over 300 original scientific research papers. He advises the World Health Organization (WHO) and, with global partners, his team created WHO’s 2022 Health Literacy Development for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases four-volume report. Osborne attributes his team’s exceptional track record in innovation and subsequent impact of their tools and processes to authentic listening to diverse people with lived experience and the service providers in the field. This is reflected in the wide and repeated use of their tools by over 1000 teams, most notably the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) used in over 80 countries.
People close to him find him intensely focused on research quality, integrity and achieving real world outcomes. In recent years his team has focused on making impact on health equity through applying strengths-based, anti-colonial, locally-led methods from ideation to scale-upping strengths-based, anti-colonial, locally-led methods from ideation to scale-up.
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