APHCRI Research Advisory Board

Professor John Marley (Chair) is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health) at the University of Newcastle. He heads a Faculty of four schools and several major research and other centres, covering Australia's most comprehensive range of health professions. His clinical experience includes practice in cardiology and in metropolitan and rural and remote general practice. Professor Marley serves on a number of boards and major national and international committees. He is Editor of the Australian Journal of Rural Health, Rural Practice and a member of the Editorial Committee of Australian Prescriber.

Professor Linda Kristjanson (Deputy Chair) RN, BN, MN, PhD is Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research and Development at Curtin University of Technology. She holds a number of significant appointments including: a joint appointment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital as Director of the Centre for Nursing Research, Director of Hospice Research for Silver Chain Hospice Service in Perth and is a council member of the NHMRC. Until 2006 Professor Kristjanson was The Cancer Council WA Chair of Palliative Care, in this role she created, and still leads, the Western Australian Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care. Professor Kristjanson has worked as a clinical researcher in Canada, the United States and Australia. In 2002 she was Australian Telstra Business Woman of the Year.

Ms Janette Donovan (BA, UWA; Dip TESL, UPNG; Dip Public Policy, UniMelb) is a consumer consultant on medicines and health policy. Since 1998 Ms Donovan has been a Director of the National Prescribing Service, an independent organisation established by the Commonwealth Government to promote the quality use of medicines. She also serves as a consumer representative on the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council and the Health Connect Stakeholder Reference Group. She worked for six years in evidenced-based policy analysis for the Council on the Ageing (Australia). Ms Donovan brings an understanding of key priority areas of primary care research of importance to consumers to the RAB.

Professor Nicholas Glasgow (MBChB, MD, FRNZGP, FRACGP, FAChPM) is a member of the Research Advisory Board. His biography can be seen on the "APHCRI Hub" page.

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 care research and research capacity building in primary health care in Australia. He is Professor at the University of New South Wales School of Public Health and Community Medicine. His research interests include work in: 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.