Naomi Hammond

Naomi is an Associate Professor and the Program Head of the critical care program and Sepsis Australia at The George Institute for Global Health. She also works part-time as the Intensive Care Clinical Research Manager at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Naomi holds several other appointments including NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow; Conjoint Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales; Treasurer, Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance; and Chair of the Australian Critical Care Nurses Research Advisory Panel.

Naomi is an ICU nurse researcher and has led a research program through international collaborations including facilitating 4 clinical trials in COVID-19 in India.  She leads the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Point Prevalence program. She has undertaken an international cross-sectional study of fluid resuscitation practices including 426 ICUs in 27 countries, and a large epidemiological study of patients with sepsis in 35 Indian ICUs. The SIPS (Sepsis in India Prevalence) study has provided vital insights into changing epidemiology with different sepsis definitions, bacteriology, and antimicrobial resistance patterns.

Naomi’s main research interests include fluid resuscitation of critically ill patients, sepsis epidemiology, clinical management, long-term outcomes, fever management, knowledge translation and implementation research, and health economics.