Adam Elshaug
IHSRC Site Lead--Australia
Professor of Health Policy, University of Melbourne
Director of Center for Health Policy, University of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Adam Elshaug, B.A., B.Sc. (Hons), M.P.H., Ph.D., is a researcher and policy advisor specialising in measuring and reducing waste (e.g. low-value care) to optimise value in health care, an area in which he has developed novel, award winning methods utilising administrative health data. At the University of Melbourne he is Professor in Health Policy with joint appointments in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH) and Melbourne Medical School, and is Director, Centre for Health Policy (MSPGH), home to over 80 staff. From 2011-2013 Professor Elshaug was NHMRC Sidney Sax Fellow based in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.