Professor Saini is pharmacist and academic with a strong track in practice research. She has led and collaborated in implementing and evaluating several successful pharmacy-based service trials in respiratory and sleep health. These projects have involved: screening/case detection, patient self-management support, clinical pharmacovigilance, pharmacy education as well as community health education programs. She has received ~28 million $AU in competitive national/international research grants as an investigator from a diverse range of funding bodies and held an NHMRC TRIP fellowship (2017-2019). She has over 220 published peer reviewed research articles, over 60 professional journal articles and has presented in more than 150 national/international research conferences. She has led, supervised, and collaborated in research in international settings, including Cambodia, Finland, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, with an interest to develop and evaluate primary care health models for respiratory disease in varied health systems and socio-cultural settings. She has also supervised to completion 40 higher degree research candidates, building research capacity for future pharmacy practice research.