APHCRI Research Advisory Board

Professor John Marley (Chair)

Professor John Marley MD MBChB FRCP(Edin) FRACGP FACRRM DA DRCOG FPCert MAICD holds a Chair in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland. In addition, he is Director of Strategy and Role Redesign in the Clinical Services Redesign Program of NSW Health. He also holds conjoint Chairs at the University of Adelaide and at the University of Newcastle. Previously he was Pro Vice-Chancellor Health at the University of Newcastle and before that, Foundation Professor of General Practice and Associate Dean of students at the University of Adelaide. His past clinical experience includes practice in cardiology and in metropolitan and rural and remote general practice. He continues in active clinical work in emergency medicine and general practice.  Professor Marley’s research profile spans from the laboratory bench to the largest of clinical trials. He has published extensively in major journals. Professor Marley serves on a number of other boards and major national and international committees.

Ms Sally Hall is a Registered Nurse with a background in critical care and post graduate qualifications in clinical management. She has worked in primary care and population health since 1997 in a variety of roles, including clinical health improvement. Ms Hall is Research Manager of the Australian General Practices Nurses Study, and received the inaugural General Practice Leader Awards established by the National Institute of Clinical Studies.

Professor Mark Harris MBBS, DRACOG, FRACGP, MD has extensive experience in primary health care research and research capacity building in primary health care in Australia. He is Foundation Professor of General Practice and Executive Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales. His research interests include: chronic disease prevention and management in primary care, health inequalities and integration of primary health care with other health and non-health services. He brings an understanding of research collaboration and partnerships to the RAB.

Professor David Lyle is a Public Health Physician who has worked in public health practice, academia and as a medical epidemiologist with the NSW Health Department. He has a strong research and health service development background. Professor Lyle is Head of the Broken Hill Department of Rural Health (University of Sydney), a multi-professional academic unit in far western NSW established in 1997 to contribute to an Australian Government initiative to address rural workforce problems.

Mr Ian Thompson is Deputy Chief Executive, ACT Health. Ian has worked in the health sector at Commonwealth and ACT Government levels for 15 years.  Currently he is the Deputy Chief Executive of ACT Health, and is responsible for the clinical operations of ACT Health, covering public hospital, mental health and community health services.

Previously he has been involved in national activities such as negotiations for the Australian Health Care Agreements, which are the principal Commonwealth/State agreements for hospital services and funding in Australia, national research and service delivery evaluation of models and care and funding for chronic disease management, and development and implementation of the National Mental Health Strategy

Professor Nicholas Glasgow (MBChB, MD, FRNZGP, FRACGP, FAChPM) is an observer of the Research Advisory Board and APHCRI's former Director. Professor Glasgow is currently Dean of the Australian National University Medical School and also Dean of the ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences. A general practitioner by clinical discipline, he has held appointments within the University of Auckland, the University of the United Arab Emirates, the University of Sydney and The Australian National University.

After completing his doctoral thesis examining the interface between primary and secondary care in a rapidly developing country his primary research interests have focused on asthma and respiratory health, drug and alcohol issues and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His experiences living in different countries and participating in different health systems inform his views on primary health care. These experiences significantly inform his approach to the research agenda of the Institute which focuses on health services research and the nexus between research evidence and policy formulation. He is a core member of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, participates regularly in review activities for the National Health and Medical Research Council and various journals, as well as being an internal and external examiner regularly for doctoral theses.