Dr Sam Rowbotham (PhD, MRes, BSc(Hons)) is a Senior Research Manager (Senior Research Fellow) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University.

She completed her PhD in Psychology in 2014 at the University of Manchester, UK in the area of interpersonal communication about pain. Between 2015 and 2023 she was based at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney, where she taught into the Master of Health Policy program.

Sam's research interests centre around public engagement in health research and decision making as a means of increasing the relevance and uptake of evidence into policy and practice. She is particularly interested in partnership research and has worked closely with a range of stakeholders from policy and practice settings to co-design and conduct research. In recent years she developed and led a program of research seeking to build capacity in the use of citizen science approaches amongst policy and practice stakeholders in public health and continues to be involved in work in this area.