Tien Bui

Research Interests

Quality use of medicines Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice Mental health services Health Policy & Services Community health care Community Child Health

Dr Tien Bui

Research Fellow

School of Allied Health and Human Performance

College of Health

Available For Media Comment.

Tien is a Research Fellow at the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre (QUMPRC). Tien completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) in 2014 at UniSA and completed her PhD in 2024, with a focus on pharmacy practice and mental health. Tien has worked in a variety of pharmacy settings, including community, hospital, government and academia.
 
Tien is currently the Safety and Quality lead pharmacist for SA Pharmacy (Statewide Clinical Support Services), SA Health and also has recent experience practicing as the Senior Pharmacist (Medicines Programs) for the Office of the Chief Pharmacist, Department for Health and Wellbeing. In addition, she has also been a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Branch Committee SA/NT (Term: 2023-2026).  
 
Tien has a strong research interest in pharmacy practice (expanded scope of practice), quality use of medicines (children and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds), medication safety and mental illness.
 

  • Enhancing mental health care through a real-time Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) data analytics dashboard in acute mental health hospitals
  • Exploring community pharmacist's role in supporting people living with mental illness: medication education and physical health monitoring

Date Position Institution name
2025 - ongoing Safety and Quality Lead Pharmacist SA Health

Date Institution name Country Title
University of South Australia Australia Doctor of Philosophy
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Australia Graduate Certificate in Applied Pharmacy Practice
University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons)

Year Citation
2026 Widagdo, I., Bui, T., Cortis, L., Andrade, A., & Roughead, E. (2026). Concurrent use of medicines with similar adverse drug reaction profiles in older adults: identifying potential deprescribing opportunities using population-level dispensing data. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 48(4), 1725-1730.
DOI
2025 Bui, T. N. T., Au, R. T., Janetzki, J. L., McMillan, S. S., Hotham, E., & Suppiah, V. (2025). Metabolic monitoring for adults living with a serious mental illness on a second-generation antipsychotic agent: a scoping review. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 52(2), 289-317.
DOI Scopus9 WoS8 Europe PMC2
2025 Janetzki, J. L., Chai, W. C., Bui, T. N. T., Sim, T. F., & Suppiah, V. (2025). Impact of medicine shortages on Australian pharmacists' professional practice and patient care: a nationwide survey. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 55(2), 146-153.
DOI Scopus6 WoS6
2023 Bui, T. N. T., Janetzki, J. L., Chai, W. C., & Suppiah, V. (2023). Exploring consumers' perspective of community pharmacists delivering COVID-19 vaccinations: an Australian pilot study. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 31(3), 337-340.
DOI Scopus4 WoS6 Europe PMC3
2023 Janetzki, J., Chai, W., Bui, T., Sim, F., & Suppiah, V. (2023). The impact of medication shortages.. Australian Journal of Pharmacy, online.
2022 Bui, T. N. T., Hotham, E., Kelly, F., & Suppiah, V. (2022). Feasibility of a pharmacist-led physical health monitoring for patients on antipsychotic medications: protocol for a longitudinal study. BMJ Open, 12(6, article no. e059573), 1-6.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC2
2022 Bui, T. N. T., Hotham, E., Loughhead, M., McMillan, S. S., Procter, N., Poole, K., & Suppiah, V. (2022). Exploring mental health clients' current medication knowledge, beliefs and experience with healthcare providers in the community in South Australia. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e5968-e5978.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC6
2022 Bui, T. N. T., Hotham, E., Rose, L., & Suppiah, V. (2022). COVID-19 and mental illness: perceptions of the pandemic and adherence to pandemic public health measures. Australasian Psychiatry, 30(6), 774-776.
DOI
2021 Bui, T. N. T., Stahl, H. J., Kaplan, J., Hotham, E., Loffler, H., Corlis, M., & Suppiah, V. (2021). Administration of as-needed psychotropic medications in aged care: decision matrix employed by nursing staff. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 22(3), 721-723.
DOI
2019 Bui, T. N. T., Goldsworthy, S., & Hotham, E. (2019). Improving a pivotal hospital documentation tool utilised by clinical pharmacists. International journal of pharmacy practice, 27(3), 325-329.
DOI

Year Citation
2026 Widagdo, I., Bui, T., Graham, D., Ailaboun, N., King-Okoye, M., Lim, R., & Semple, S. (2026). Medicine Safety: Culturally and linguistically diverse community care.
2023 Bui, T., Hotham, L., Kelly, F., & Suppiah, V. (2023). Metabolic monitoring in adults living with a serious mental illness on antipsychotics: a scoping review protocol. US: Centre for Open Science.

Year Citation
2025 Janetzki, J., Chai, W., Bui, T., Sim, F., & Suppiah, V. (2025). Hospitals need ‘dedicated fulltime positions to manage medicines shortages’. Australian Journal of Pharmacy.
2023 Bui, T., Janetzki, J., Chai, W., & Suppiah, V. (2023). Covid jabs: why Aussies chose pharmacy. Australian Journal of Pharmacy.
2023 Janetzki, J., Chai, W., Bui, T., Fei, S., & Suppiah, V. (2023). The impact of medication shortages. Australian Journal of Pharmacy.

  • A report summarising the evidence on the safety, quality and efficacy of medicinal cannabis, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, 27/06/2025 - 27/10/2025

  • QUM in Schools and Childcare settings, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, 02/12/2024 - 30/04/2025

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2025 - ongoing Member International Pharmaceutical Federation International Pharmaceutical Federation Netherlands
2023 - ongoing Member PSA SA/NT Branch Committee Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2019 - ongoing Member Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association Australia

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