Professor Bodil Rasmussen is a Registered Nurse and Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University. She was the Chair of Nursing and Director for the Centre for Nursing Research in the Western Health Partnership for 8 years. Rasmussen’s research program comprises two arms, empowering people with chronic and multi-morbidity to self-manage by using technologies and implementation of research evidence into practice; projects involved multi-disciplinary and international teams. She holds Adjunct Professorial appointments at the Universities of Copenhagen and Southern Denmark, Denmark.