Dr Renly Lim grew up in Malaysia, completed her pharmacy degree in Scotland, her PhD in Malaysia, and has work experience in the UK, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre.
Renly's research focuses on advancing the pharmacy profession to improve quality use of medicines, integrating digital health to detect and prevent medicine harms, identifying associations between medicine use and health outcomes, health program evaluation and community engagement.
Renly is an internationally recognised leader in pharmacy and medicine safety. She is the 2021-22 President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacists Group (FIP... Read more
About me
Dr Renly Lim grew up in Malaysia, completed her pharmacy degree in Scotland, her PhD in Malaysia, and has work experience in the UK, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre.
Renly's research focuses on advancing the pharmacy profession to improve quality use of medicines, integrating digital health to detect and prevent medicine harms, identifying associations between medicine use and health outcomes, health program evaluation and community engagement.
Renly is an internationally recognised leader in pharmacy and medicine safety. She is the 2021-22 President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacists Group (FIP YPG) where she led a team of 45 pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists from 21 countries. FIP is the global peak pharmacy body representing >4 million pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. In 2023, she was appointed to the FIP Policy Committee on Access to Medicines, where she helped develop a policy statement on improving access to medicines. The statement was approved by the FIP Council in 2024 and has been adopted by FIP’s 158 national pharmacy organisations across 108 countries. As a Board member of the FIP Data and Intelligence Commission, she contributes to delivering FIP’s data-driven initiatives that are transforming pharmacy practice worldwide and driving global pharmacy workforce reform.
Renly has secured $15 million in research funding, including an NHMRC Ideas Grant as Lead Investigator (2023–26), and has produced over 100 outputs, including peer-reviewed publications, policy documents, and technical reports for organisations including the World Health Organization, Wellcome Trust and the Australian Government Department of Health.
About me
About me
Doctor of Philosophy (Pharmacy) Universiti Sains Malaysia
Master of Pharmacy University of Strathclyde
A Digitally Enabled, Pharmacist service to detecT medicine harms in residential aged care: the ADEPT project (Lead Investigator; Funded by Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA))
Co-designing a consumer-focused digital health system to improve adverse drug event (ADE) detection, management and reporting (CIA; NHMRC Ideas Grant APP 2020626)
Medicines Advice Initiative Australia (MAIA) – supporting quality use of medicines (Quality Use of Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Pathology (QUDTP) Program Health Professional Education Grant Program)
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Medication Safety in Children: Literature review, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, 23/07/2024 - 28/02/2025
Improving the safety of implantable medical devices, NHMRC - Ideas Grants, 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2024
Misdiagnosed as ageing: medicine-induced deterioration in older people, NHMRC - Early Career Fellowship, 01/01/2019 - 30/11/2023
ReMinDAR Trial: Reducing medicine induced deterioration and adverse reactions trial, Cwth Dept of Health Aged Care, 15/09/2017 - 31/03/2021
CVC Mental Health Pilot, Cwth Dept of Veterans' Affairs, 03/01/2018 - 31/12/2020
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
7
7
7
|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
1
5
|
| 2022 |
Open access
78
73
207
|
| 2022 |
Open access
24
20
88
|
| 2019 |
Open access
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2025 |
Open access
1
|
| 2025 |
Open access
1
1
3
|
| 2025 |
Open access
3
3
11
|
| 2025 |
Open access
|
| 2025 |
Open access
1
2
12
|
| 2025 |
3
|
| 2025 |
Open access
|
| 2025 |
Open access
|
| 2025 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2025 |
Open access
2
5
|
| 2024 |
Open access
4
5
5
|
| 2024 |
Open access
4
3
7
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
3
1
4
|
| 2024 |
Open access
5
5
55
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
91
|
| 2024 |
Open access
3
4
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
2
3
|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
1
4
|
| 2023 |
Open access
2
3
4
|
| 2023 |
Open access
7
8
30
|
| 2023 |
Open access
7
8
2
|
| 2023 |
Open access
4
3
2
|
| 2023 |
Open access
3
4
10
|
| 2023 |
Open access
7
7
7
|
| 2023 |
Open access
3
3
14
|
| 2023 |
Open access
2
2
18
|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
1
5
|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
11
|
| 2022 |
Open access
1
2
|
| 2022 |
Open access
1
1
3
|
| 2022 |
Open access
78
73
207
|
| 2022 |
Open access
4
4
|
| 2022 |
Open access
6
5
45
|
| 2022 |
Open access
24
20
88
|
| 2022 |
Open access
6
7
23
|
| 2022 |
Open access
46
39
192
|
| 2021 |
Open access
17
17
5
|
| 2021 |
Open access
2
1
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
38
31
4
|
| 2020 |
Open access
7
5
8
|
| 2020 |
Open access
12
12
3
|
| 2020 |
Open access
5
4
12
|
| 2020 |
Open access
2
2
5
|
| 2019 |
Open access
28
36
23
|
| 2019 |
14
12
|
| 2019 |
Open access
4
4
3
|
| 2019 |
Open access
33
31
3
|
| 2019 |
51
46
|
| 2019 |
Open access
29
30
26
|
| 2018 |
Open access
4
4
12
|
| 2018 |
Open access
5
5
17
|
| 2018 |
Open access
3
3
3
|
| 2018 |
Open access
7
6
9
|
| 2018 |
Open access
2
2
|
| 2018 |
Open access
5
5
2
|
| 2018 |
Open access
23
20
3
|
| 2018 |
Open access
13
13
4
|
| 2018 |
Open access
15
11
1
|
| 2018 |
Open access
21
19
5
|
| 2018 |
Open access
6
10
|
| 2018 |
Open access
22
10
|
| 2018 |
Open access
27
25
9
|
| 2017 |
5
5
|
| 2017 |
36
31
|
| 2017 |
Open access
44
36
20
|
| 2016 |
64
56
33
|
| 2015 |
31
29
8
|
| 2015 |
Open access
28
21
2
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2021 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
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| 2020 |
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| 2019 |
Open access
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| 2019 |
Open access
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| 2019 |
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Lim R, Peto TJ, Rupam T, Cheah PY. Village drama against malaria. The Lancet. 2016; 388(10063):2990.
Lim R. 2016. Village drama against malaria (VDAM) evaluation report: A public engagement initiative funded by a Wellcome Trust Provision for Public Engagement Grant.
Research
A Digitally Enabled, Pharmacist service to detecT medicine harms in residential aged care: the ADEPT project (Lead Investigator; Funded by Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA))
Co-designing a consumer-focused digital health system to improve adverse drug event (ADE) detection, management and reporting (CIA; NHMRC Ideas Grant APP 2020626)
Medicines Advice Initiative Australia (MAIA) – supporting quality use of medicines (Quality Use of Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Pathology (QUDTP) Program Health Professional Education Grant Program)
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Aevice Health | SINGAPORE |
| Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch) | AUSTRALIA |
| Battambang Provincial Health Department | CAMBODIA |
| Bond University | AUSTRALIA |
| Bournemouth University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Cara Inc. Woodville | AUSTRALIA |
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Duke-Nus Medical School | SINGAPORE |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Free University of Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
| Healthy Care Services Pty Ltd | AUSTRALIA |
| Helping Hand Aged Care | AUSTRALIA |
| Helping Hand Organisation | AUSTRALIA |
| Hospital Beatriz Ângelo | PORTUGAL |
| International Pharmaceutical Federation | NETHERLANDS |
| Island Hospital | UNITED STATES |
| Island Hospital, Malaysia | MALAYSIA |
| King Edward Memorial Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Lam Wah Ee Hospital | MALAYSIA |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Mahidol University | THAILAND |
| Ministry of Health Malaysia | MALAYSIA |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| Monash University Malaysia | MALAYSIA |
| National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control | CAMBODIA |
| Nnamdi Azikiwe University | NIGERIA |
| Organisation Mondiale de la Santé | ITALY |
| Pailin Provincial Health Department | CAMBODIA |
| Pharmaceutical Society of Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Pharmacy Improvement Centre Ltd | AUSTRALIA |
| Queen's University Belfast | UNITED KINGDOM |
| SA Health | AUSTRALIA |
| SA Pharmacy, SA Health | AUSTRALIA |
| Southern Cross Care (SA) | AUSTRALIA |
| SUNY Downstate Medical Center | UNITED STATES |
| Tanunda Lutheran Home Inc | AUSTRALIA |
| Tunku Abdul Rahman University (Malaysia) | MALAYSIA |
| Ucsi University | MALAYSIA |
| University College London | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University Kebangsaan Malaysia | MALAYSIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
| University of Malaya | MALAYSIA |
| University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Science Malaysia (Malaysia) | MALAYSIA |
| University of Science, Malaysia | MALAYSIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
| University Of Tunku Abdul Rahman | MALAYSIA |
| University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Uppsala University | SWEDEN |
| Xi'an Jiaotong University | CHINA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
SA Tall Poppy AwardAustralian Institute of Policy and Science |
2022 |
PresidentInternational Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacists Group |
2021 |
Early Career Pharmacist AwardPharmaceutical Society of Australia SA/NT |
2020 |
President-ElectInternational Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacists Group |
2020 |
Best Poster Award79th FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
2019 |
Ethics Committee Member, Joint Ethics Committee on Clinical StudiesSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USM and Hospital Lam Wah Ee |
2019 |
Grant Coordinator, Young Pharmacists GroupInternational Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) |
2019 |
Plenary SpeakerMalaysian Pharmaceutical Society National Pharmacists Convention |
2019 |
Vice Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement with ResearchUniversity of Oxford |
2019 |
Early Career FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council |
2018 |
Ethics Committee Member, Joint Ethics Committee on Clinical StudiesSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USM and Hospital Lam Wah Ee |
2018 |
Grant Coordinator, Young Pharmacists GroupInternational Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) |
2018 |
Plenary SpeakerInternational Conference on Medication Safety, University of Surabaya |
2018 |
SA Fresh ScientistScience in Public |
2018 |
Winner, Winnovation Award (Open)Women in Innovation SA |
2018 |
Clinical Research PrizeQRS-International, Liechtenstein |
2016 |
Ethics Committee Member, Joint Ethics Committee on Clinical StudiesSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USM and Hospital Lam Wah Ee |
2016 |
Finalist, Asia's Best Paper14th Urological Association of Asia (UAA) Congress, Singapore |
2016 |
Best Oral Presentation in Urology24th Malaysian Urological Conference (MUC), Johor Bahru, Malaysia |
2015 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Evaluation of patient-reported outcome measures for longitudinal monitoring of medicine-related harm. | Current |
| Identifying and addressing evidence gaps in post-market risk management of biologic medicines: priorities for pharmacovigilance in Australia | Current |
| The Application of Artificial Intelligence for Adverse Drug Event Support: Language models-Driven Approach | Current |
| Adverse drug reaction reporting by consumers in Australia | Completed |
| Emerging role of pharmacists in preadmission clinics in prevention of postoperative delirium | Completed |
| Macro, meso and micro layers affecting clinical pharmacists' involvement in interprofessional ward rounds in inpatient hospital settings | Completed |
