Visiting Fellows

In 2008, APHCRI established an International Visiting Fellowship program under Stream 11 to provide the opportunity for eligible groups to bid for funds to support the travel and related costs of bringing international primary health care experts to Australia to contribute to the knowledge base and research capacity relevant to APHCRI’s strategic plan. The Research Advisory Board finalised this stream on 4 March 2009.

APHCRI visiting fellows prior to the establishment of Stream 11 are listed below.

June 2008
	Dr Ellen Nolte is qualified in biology and holds a Master of Public Health degree. In 1998, she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, funded by the European Commission, to undertake her PhD at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where she is now working as senior lecturer in the Health Services Research Unit. She currently holds a Career Scientist Award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHRHR). Her main research is the field of health systems including approaches to health system performance assessment, health system responses to chronic disease, international health care system comparisons, and trends and determinants of population health in former communist countries of central and eastern Europe. She has published widely on health system performance assessment, European health policy and the health implications of political and socioeconomic transition in central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
	Associate Professor Susan Dovey (MPH, PhD) was the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute's first visiting fellow. She has 18 years of general practice health policy research experience - in practice-based research, patient safety and information technology management. Professor Dovey has been actively involved in research in New Zealand, the United Kindgom, and the United States and produced over 75 publications reporting original research in medical journals. She holds a concurrent appointment with the American Academy of Family Physicians in the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care in Washington, DC, is Chair of the Linnaeus Collaboration and co-ordinates and supports quality-related research in primary care internationally. Professor Dovey is an active member of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA), and the Cochrane Collaboration's Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group.
November 2007
	Professor Tony Kendrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care at the University of Southampton, School of Medicine, and a practising general practitioner. His research addresses the management of common and costly mental health problems in primary care, through multi-practice randomised controlled trials of new treatments and service developments, as well as observational and qualitative studies. He has published extensively, particularly on the primary care of depression, schizophrenia, and eating disorders. His work has been influential in the development of good practice guidelines and the new quality indicators in the UK general practice contract for the management of severe mental illness and depression.
May 2007
	Professor Chris van Weel is the President-Elect of Wonca. In 2007 he received a Royal Honour and is now Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau for his contribution to medicine. Professor Chris van Weel has contributed greatly to practice-based evidence, proving that good general practice improves health outcomes for patients. He is a qualified general practitioner, and both Professor and Head of General Practice at Radboud University Medical Centre at Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Professor van Weel has expertise in chronic disease management and the patient's journey though the health system. He is active in local and international research initiatives, teaches medical students and sees patients on a regular basis. Professor van Weel takes up the Wonca Presidency in July. Professor Chris van Weel: ANU Public Lecture - Excellence in General Practice: An International Challenge
	Professor Bonnie Sibbald is Professor of Health Services Research and Deputy Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester. Professor Sibbald is an experienced practitioner, manager and commissioner of health services research, with a particular interest in health care organisation and delivery in general practice. She leads NPCRDC's workforce research programme and the Manchester-based programme of research into co-morbidity within the NIHR National School of Primary Care Research. From 2000-2006 she chaired the management board of the University of Manchester Institute of Health Sciences that brings together the major groups engaged in health sciences research across the university and local National Health Service (NHS) organisations. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1996 for her contribution to the development of academic general practice. Professor Bonnie Sibbald: Role of Nurses in Primary Care
March 2007
	Professor Helen Lester is Professor of Primary Care at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester and Honorary Professor of Primary Care Mental Health at the University of Birmingham. Professor Lester has been a GP in inner city Birmingham since 1990, providing primary health care for hard to reach groups including homeless people and, more recently, asylum seekers and refugees. Professor Lester is also national primary care lead for the Mental Health Research Network and Academic Lead of the Expert Panel reviewing the GP Contract Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in the UK. The latter role involves assessing the underpinning evidence for the 150 financially incentivised indicators in QOF across clinical, organisational and patient experience domains, and advising the British Medical Association and the Department of Health on the revision of existing and addition of new indicators. Profess Helen Lester: Quality Indicators in British General Practice: or, the pros and cons of performance related pay!
February 2007
	Ms Judith Smith is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Health Services Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. Judith has been involved in health services research for twelve years, before which she worked as a senior manager in the NHS in England. Her research interests are concerned with the organisation and management of primary care, health commissioning, management and organisational development, and international health policy. Recent projects include a review of the evidence regarding effectiveness in health commissioning (Smith, Lewis and Harrison, 2006), an analysis of the likely impact of an expanding market in NHS primary care (Smith, Ham and Parker, 2005), the writing of a book Towards Managed Care: the role and experience of primary care organisations for Ashgate Publishing (with Nick Goodwin), and the editing of a major new textbook Healthcare Management (with Kieran Walshe) for the Open University Press. During 2007, Judith is based at Victoria University where she is focusing on the evaluation and development of primary health care. She is also using the year to write up her PhD thesis on the role of chief executives of primary care organisations. Ms Judith Smith: Experiences with systematic reviews of the 'messy' literature that informs policy
July 2006
	Professor Larry A.Green, M.D. is Senior Scholar in Residence at The Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care, in Washington, D.C. He is professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado, where he directs Prescription for Health, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program focused on health behaviours in primary care. Prior to his current positions, Dr Green was the founding director of the Graham Center and the Woodward-Chisholm Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. He completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Rochester and Highland Hospital and entered practice in Arkansas in the National Health Services Corps. Much of his career has been focused on developing practice-based, primary care research networks, including The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN). Dr Green practices as a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and serves on the American Board of Family Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the North America Primary Care Research Group and the World Organization of Family Doctors. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma and his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Professor Larry Green: GP&PHC Research Conference - Optimising Impact; Workforce
February 2006
	Professor Christopher Dowrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care in the University of Liverpool, England and a general practitioner with the Aintree Park Group Practice. His academic and clinical work focuses on the promotion of good mental health, with particular reference to depression and medically unexplained symptoms. He publishes extensively and has a wide portfolio of research projects, including funding from the Medical Research Council, European Commission and recently from APHCRI. His critically acclaimed book Beyond Depression was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. He is a member of the English Department of Health's Mental Health Task Force. He is editor of Chronic Illness, an international journal devoted to promoting better understanding the causes, experiences and management of long term medical conditions. Professor Christopher Dowrick: Managing chronic disease - recent trends and implications for general practice
January 2006
	Professor Nicholas Mays is Professor of Health Policy in the Health Services Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His main interests relate to health care system reform in high income countries, the evaluation of complex policy change in health care systems and the health policy making process, all with particular emphasis on the role of primary care. Current research includes evaluations of the impact of the major health care system restructuring that occurred in New Zealand in 2000 and of the New Zealand primary health care strategy implemented since 2002. He is also involved in developing methods for the ‘mixed' synthesis of both qualitative and quantitative research evidence, in research on topics such as improving the management of surgical waiting lists and comparing the performance of the NHS in different parts of the UK, and in editing a global review of health systems' responses to HIV/AIDS to be published by Oxford University Press in 2006. He edits the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy with Nick Black. Before joining the School he worked in the Social Policy Branch of the NZ Treasury, at the King's Fund where he was director of health services research, at the Queen's University of Belfast, at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and in the NHS. Professor Nicholas Mays: Evidence synthesis: making it useful for health policy makers and managers

2005

November

Professor Huw Davies is Professor of Health Care Policy and Management at the University of St Andrews. As a Harkness Fellow, he was based at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. He is Co-director of both the Centre for Public Policy & Management (CPPM) and the ESRC-funded Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU) in the University of St. Andrews, and is on secondment to the Department of Health as Deputy Director of the Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Research Programme.

In addition, Professor Davies is an associate director of the newly formed Social Dimensions of Health Institute (SDHI), which combines clinical and social science research across the universities of Dundee and St Andrews. Professor Davies research interests are in health care policy and management, encompassing evidence-based policy and practice, performance measurement and management, accountability, governance and trust. He also has a particular interest in the role of organizational culture in the delivery of high quality services.

He has published widely in each of these areas, with over 130 papers appearing in peer-reviewed journals. He is also the author or co-author of several books including: WHAT WORKS? Evidence-based policy and practice in public services, Health Services Research: Avoiding Common Pitfalls, Healthcare Performance and Organisational Culture, and Cultures for Performance in Health Care.

Professor Huw Davies: Understanding non-academic impact

October

Dr Tikki Pang is currently Director of the Research Policy & Cooperation Department at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously Dr Pang was Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He has a BSc Hons in Biochemistry and a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, both from the ANU. Dr Pang has published six books and more than 180 scientific articles. His research interests include: epidemiology, pathogenesis & laboratory diagnosis of dengue virus infections, molecular epidemiology & genetic diversity of enteric pathogenic bacteria, immunology & pathogenesis of typhoid fever, novel diagnostic and immunization approaches in infectious diseases, vaccination against tropical diseases, prevention and control of infectious diseases and impact on economic development, development of research capabilities in developing countries, assessment of health research system performance, knowledge utilization and translation, health research policy, health systems research, impact and application of modern biotechnology on developing economies.

Dr Tikki Pang : Lost in Translation - contemporary challenges in health research

July

Professor Jonathan Lomas is the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation , a nationally endowed organization founded in 1997 to improve the relevance and use of health services research in health system decision-making.

He grew up in Britain and did his undergraduate training in experimental psychology at Oxford University before coming to Canada as a Commonwealth Scholar. His background includes work or training in psychology, health economics, epidemiology, political science, and management.

From 1982-1997 he was a Professor of Health Policy Analysis at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, where he co-founded the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis - an applied research group with a strong emphasis on research dissemination and uptake. He has published two books and numerous articles and chapters in the area of health policy and health services research. His main interest, and the area in which he has an international reputation, is the role and impact of research evidence in health systems decision-making.

He has been a consultant to national and provincial governments, as well as providing research and advice to various non-governmental organizations, task forces and inquiries. He is currently on a number of boards including, in the US: AcademyHealth and Health Affairs ; in the UK: Journal of Health Services Research and Policy and the Journal of Evidence-based Policy and Management ; in Australia: the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute; and in Canada: Healthcare Quarterly . In Canada he has also been an Associate of the Population Health Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1988-2004), a member of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee to Deputy Ministers on Health Services (1994-96), a member of the Ontario Premier's Council on Health, Well-being and Social Justice (1991-94), and a member of the Interim Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1999-2000) as well as a member of the Institute Advisory Board for its Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (2000-2004).

His interest in international health issues is strong and reflected in consultancies for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Development Research Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, South Korea, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Australia. He has been a Visiting Professor or Scientist at the University of Gadjah Mada in Indonesia (1990), the University of Sydney, Australia (where he was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Health of the New South Wales Government) (1996/97), and the Dutch national research and development agency ZonMw (2004).

Professor Jonathon Lomas: Intelligent Research Commissioning

Mr John O'Brien (MPA) is the Director of Health Policy at the Center for Health Program Development and Management (CHPDM) located at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He has over 25 years experience in the design, delivery, and assessment of health care systems at the local, state and federal levels. The work of he and his staff specifically addresses issues related to the operation of state Medicaid programs that deliver health services to poor and disabled populations. A focus of his work has been the development of the infrastructure and tools necessary to monitor the performance of capitated systems of service delivery.

John is currently one of three Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellows in Public Policy. Established in 1995 by the New Zealand Government in partnership with the private sector the fellowships provide American professionals opportunities to study, travel, and gain practical experience in public policy in New Zealand, including firsthand knowledge of economic, social, and political reforms and management of the government sector.

While in New Zealand, Mr O'Brien is based at the Ministry of Health working on a project entitled Comparing Health Care Performance Measurement in the US and New Zealand: Do we ask the same questions, and what influences the answers? The project entails studying New Zealand's methods for assessing healthcare system performance and contrasting them with similar efforts by state Medicaid programs in the US. The focus of his research will be specific elements of each country's healthcare delivery system: Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) in New Zealand, Managed Care Organisations (MCOs) in the US.

Mr John O'Brien: Performance Measurement in Primary Care

Professor Peter Crampton (MBChB; PhD; FAFPHM, MRNZCGP) is Head of Department in the Department of Public Health at the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Peter has a background in public health medicine and general practice. His research is focused on social indicators and social epidemiology, primary care policy, and primary care organisation and funding. He has a research interest in performance monitoring in primary health care, and has served on numerous advisory panels for the New Zealand Ministry of Health in a variety of policy areas related to public health and primary care. He has strong research links with a range of primary care organisations. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to public health, health systems and health services management.

Professor Peter Crampton: Peformance Indicators across the ditch

February

Ms Judith Smith is a senior lecturer in Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She has been involved in health services research and development for many years, before which she was a senior manager in the National Health Service (NHS). Ms Smith's research interests are concerned with primary care-led commissioning, the development of health care organisations and international health care.

Ms Judith Smith: Primary care-led commissioning: risks and opportunities for policy and practice

2004

Associate Professor Susan Dovey (MPH, PhD) was the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute's first visiting fellow. She has 18 years of general practice health policy research experience - in practice-based research, patient safety and information technology management. Professor Dovey has been actively involved in research in New Zealand, the United Kindgom, and the United States and produced over 75 publications reporting original research in medical journals. She holds a concurrent appointment with the American Academy of Family Physicians in the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care in Washington, DC, is Chair of the Linnaeus Collaboration and co-ordinates and supports quality-related research in primary care internationally. Professor Dovey is an active member of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA), and the Cochrane Collaboration's Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group.

Susan Dovey: Inside the Linnaeus Collaboration: Doing General Practice research in an international group

Professor Nicholas Mays from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is a social scientist who has studied health and social policy through almost three decades of development. He has researched and analysed the United Kingdom's NHS and UK university medical schools and he has worked with The King's Fund and the New Zealand Government. His interest in health services policy has centred largely on primary care reform and the role of primary care providers as commissioners of services for their patients.

Nicholas Mays: Using financing and funding methods to improve access to primary health care.

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