Dr Stella Talic is a Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow (~Assistant Professor) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine where she holds a number of combined education and research leadership roles. These include Head of Pharmacoepidemiology and Real-World Evidence Unit, Senior Medical Educator at the Medical Education, Quality and Research Unit, and Clinical Epidemiologist at Centre for Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics, where she is responsible for the leadership, identification, planning, design and delivery of a high-quality research programme in cardiovascular prevention and therapeutic management. Dr Talic completed a doctoral specialist degree in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University and she specialises in Chronic Disease Pharmacopidemiology, Therapeutic Control and Prevention. She is involved in multiple projects working closely with hospitals, national regulatory bodies, pharmacological companies and CRCs. Her expertise lies in generating evidence-based approaches and strategies for chronic disease prevention and therapeutic management.