Professor Simon Bell

Professor Simon Bell is Director of Monash University’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety. He is also Adjunct Professor of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. Professor Bell has extensive experience conducting research on patterns and outcomes of medication use in older people. Professor Bell was an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Dementia Leadership Fellow 2017-2022. He has authored more than 375 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and was Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing and NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre. He is Chair of Australia’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Psychotropic Medications in People Living with Dementia and in Residential Aged Care; and Co-Chair of the new 2026 Australian Dementia Guidelines. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. He has a strong commitment to mentoring and supervision, having supervised 18 PhD students to completion in Australia and Finland. He has a strong interest in international pharmacy. He co-founded the Neurological and Mental Health Global Epidemiology Network (NeuroGEN), a 10-country ‘big data’ collaboration that provides the opportunity to analyse medication data for 100 million people. He has given presentations about pharmacy and medication management in more than 30 countries.