Introduction
Adam Elshaug, M.P.H., Ph.D., is a researcher and policy advisor specializing in reducing waste and optimizing value in health care. 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). He is also Visiting Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Adam advises international governments and other policy agencies on issues of health care effectiveness and efficiency, for example as a Ministerial appointee to the (Australian) Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce and as a Board member Bureau of Health Information (BHI) which reports on the performance of the public health system, including the safety and quality, effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness. Adam was a 2010-11 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow based at the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). From mid-2011 to mid-2013, he then served as NHMRC Sidney Sax Fellow in Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy. He is recipient of numerous research awards and has collaborated to attract over $125 million in research funding and published approximately 170 technical reports and peer reviewed articles with first-author publications in journals including The Lancet (co-lead of the 2017 Right Care series), NEJM, BMJ, JAMA, MJA, among others.
Expert
Professor Adam Elshaug Adam Elshaug is a researcher and policy advisor specializing in reducing waste (ineffective or low-value care) and optimizing value in health care. He leads the largest international program of work measuring patient and provider level prevalence of low-value care (including costs and characteristics) within large healthcare datasets. These insights allow him to work closely with national and state governments, and third party payers to design and implement reforms to reduce waste and optimise heath care safety and value, including the design and evaluation of alternative payment models. He has reformed fee-for-service systems and brings a health technology asessment lens to policies of optimising health care utilisation. He is a Board member of an organisation that monitors and publicly reports jurisdiction wide hospital safety and quality performance.
Fields of expertise: Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Evidence for policy / knowledge valorization, Health and wellbeing, Monitoring and evaluation, Policy design and delivery, Social innovation / public sector innovation / policy innovation