Lisa McDaid

Lisa McDaid is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) and Professor of Social Sciences and Health at The University of Queensland. Lisa has an international reputation grounded in knowledge exchange and partnership. Her research has made significant contributions to identifying solutions to health inequalities among the most disadvantaged and marginalised in our society. Lisa is experienced in how to engage communities at high risk of poor health and wellbeing in health improvement research and in developing new methods of co-production for intervention development. Lisa is a Social Scientist and obtained her PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of Glasgow in 2007. She has been Chief-Investigator on research grants c.AU$100M and has authored over 100 publications. Lisa is also an Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, a consortium research centre based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Solution-focused social science and health; Health inequalities; Intervention development and evaluation; Community participative research; Salutogenesis and assets-based interventions; Syndemics

[2026] Privacy, temporal flexibility and connection: how online spaces shape abortion support. Wilson-Lowe, Rachel Victoria, Purcell, Carrie, Lewis, Ruth and McDaid, Lisa (2026). BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health. doi: 10.1136/bmjsrh-2026-203253 [2026] Reducing health inequities in Australia: the role of place-based action and spatial data infrastructure. Olsen, Jonathan R., Robinson, Mark, Corcoran, Jonathan and McDaid, Lisa (2026). Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 37 (2) e70156, 1-6. doi: 10.1002/hpja.70156 [2026] Informal digital peer support for mental health: understanding the digital support practices of LGBTQ+ young people in Australia. Byron, Paul and McDaid, Lisa (2026). Culture, Health and Sexuality, 28 (3), 321-338. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2025.2459803 [2025] Commonly cited