Dr Rose Cairns is a Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney. She has a clinical role as Senior Poisons Specialist (Research and Audit) at the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Her research interests include clinical toxicology, pharmacovigilance, toxicovigilance, severe adverse drug reactions, pharmaceutical misuse, medicines policy, and deliberate self-poisoning (self-harm overdose). Her overall goal is to reduce harm from poisoning.