Robyn Lynette Rodwell is an Australian retired medical scientist.^[3]

Rodwell is best known for her work in the haematology field.^[3][4][5] Spanning a period of fifty years, her career commenced when she became a cadet medical scientist at the haematology blood bank at Brisbane's Mater Hospital.^[3]

After gaining a fellowship in haematology in 1982, Rodwell was appointed as the hospital's chief scientist of haematology.^[3]

In 1997, Rodwell was tasked with establishing the Queensland Cord Blood Bank (QCBB) at the Mater Mother's Hospital.^[3] Upon its inception, Rodwell was appointed as the QCBB's scientific director, becoming director in 2008.^[3]

She is also credited with establishing what became known as the "Sepsis Score" in blood counts which has proved to assist in predicting sepsis infections in newborn babies.^[6] This work was the subject of her doctoral thesis in which she explored the role of laboratory investigations, diagnosis, monitoring and therapy of neonatal sepsis.^[1]

Rodwell has also been an adjunct associate professor at the School of Natural Sciences at Griffith University and at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology.^[3]

In 2009, Rodwell was named as a Queensland Great.^[2][7] Rodwell retired in 2019.^[3][6]