Director, Centre for Health System Reform and Integration, University of Qld
Professor Claire Jackson has been extensively involved in health services research and reform since the early 90s. She has been a member of both the national Primary Health Care Advisory Group and the National Primary Care Strategy Expert Reference Group – guiding forces behind Australia’s national primary care reform. She provided a commissioned paper for the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission on new models in primary care. Her description of the ‘beacon’ practice model, piloted at Inala Primary Care, was adopted as both the clinical prototype for the Australian Association of Academic General Practitioner’s endorsed model for GP Superclinics, and the basis for UQ’s successful $ 10 million Superclinic tenders. Prof. Jackson has been a national driver in the Health Care Home initiative since 2009 – publishing and presenting widely on the topic and sitting on national Advisory Committees for both Ministers Plebisek and Ley.