Dr Kylie Porritt is the Director of the Transfer Science Division at the JBI, Adelaide University. She has been an active contributor to the field of evidence-based healthcare for over two decades. A strong commitment to inclusivity and equitable access to high-quality evidence underpins her work, with a focus on ensuring research meaningfully reaches and benefits clinicians, policymakers, and underserved populations.
Through an international research translation grant, she leads a team of dedicated and passionate researchers who, in collaboration with local and international stakeholders, develop and maintain more than 5000 rigorous, trustworthy evidence-based resources to inform and guide clinical decision-making and practice. These resources are accessed by more than 4,500 healthcare facilities across 61 countries, supporting evidence-informed practice globally.
Dr Porritt has a particular interest in advancing the methodology underpinning evidence-based point-of-care resources, with a focus on rapid and qualitative evidence synthesis, and on the safe and responsible integration of artificial intelligence into evidence synthesis and evidence-based workflows. She is actively engaged in national and international leadership and governance roles, including Chair of the Evidence at the Point of Care Methodology Group, Convenor of the Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Methodology Group, member of the Joint Cochrane/Campbell/JBI/Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Methods Artificial Intelligence Group, and Vice-Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines International Network (ANZ GIN), among others.
An experienced and widely published researcher, Dr Porritt has authored hundreds of evidence summaries and evidence-based clinical practice procedures, and has published systematic reviews, scoping reviews, books, book chapters, and a wide range of health-related research outputs. She has led and contributed to competitive research grants and commissioned projects for organisations including the Belgian Ministry of Health, Queensland Health, Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM), the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), the Australian College of Perioperative Nursing, the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, and the Heart Foundation.
Her work is guided by a commitment to strengthening the connection between evidence, decision-making, and care, so that high-quality research translates into meaningful improvements in health outcomes.