Jane Gunn is the inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research in the Department of General Practice at The University of Melbourne. A general practitioner, Jane’s doctoral research was on postnatal physical and mental health in general practice. Her current research interests include depression and related disorders and the complex interplay between emotional well-being, physical health and illness.

She serves on a number of professional committees related to general practice such as the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners National Standing Committee-Research, the RACGP National Research Awards Committee, and the steering committee of the beyondblue Victorian Centre of Excellence for Research and Evaluation in Depression and Related Disorders and the National Prescribing Service Research and Development Working Group.

Jane 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).