Professor Jane Gunn

Professor Jane Gunn is the inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research in the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne where she leads the Primary Care Research Unit (PCRU).

A general practitioner, Professor Gunn's doctoral research was on postnatal physical and mental health in general practice. Jane is the immediate past President of the Australian Association for Academic General Practice (AAAGP), a post she held from 2004-2006 and s he serves on a number of professional committees such as the RACGP National Standing Committee-Research, the steering committee of the beyondblue Victorian Centre of Excellence for Research and Evaluation in Depression and Related Disorders and the Research and Development Working Group of the National Prescribing Service.

She has led the development of the multi-disciplinary diamond consortium (Diagnosis, Management & Outcomes of Depression in Primary Care) which aims to build capacity in primary care mental health research and evaluation (www.diamond.unimelb.edu.au) and was established via funding from beyondblue VCoE.