Churchill Fellow

Professor Josephine Chow is the Foundation Chair of the South Western Sydney Nursing and Midwifery Research Alliance (SWS Local Health District and Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research) and Deputy Director of Research at SWSLHD, Australia. A former renal nurse, her career has been driven by innovation and research, shaping global nursing leadership and practice.

She has served on the ISPD Standards and Guidelines Committee and is Past Chair of the ISPD Nursing and Allied Health Professional Committee. In 2009, she founded The HOME Network, an Australasian initiative promoting home dialysis as a choice for patients. Professor Chow is Co-Principal Investigator for the global TEACH-PD Trial and has secured major national and international research funding.

Her accolades include NSW Health Staff Member of the Year Award (2023), Australian Health Minister’s Nursing Trailblazer Award (2022), and a Winston Churchill Fellowship (2012). She holds affiliations with three Australian Universities and Stanford University.

Previously, she held key leadership roles in NSW Health, including Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Co-Director of the Renal Clinical Trial Centre, and inaugural Executive Director of Operations for SPHERE. She has completed a Master’s in Nursing and Management, PhD, and MBA, supervises higher degree research students, publishes extensively, and is a sought-after keynote speaker internationally.