Professor Adam Elshaug is an internationally recognized researcher and policy advisor with expertise in reducing waste and optimizing value in health care. This involves: (i) defining appropriateness (low- versus high-value care), including from various stakeholder perspectives (patient, clinician, community members, policy); (ii) Measuring patient and provider level prevalence of low-value care within large healthcare datasets; (iii) Working closely with government (including Medicare Australia) and third party payers in health care to design and implement reforms aimed at reducing waste, optimizing heath care safety and value, including the design and evaluation of alternative payment models. Prof Elshaug was a 2010-11 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow based at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Washington DC. From mid-2011 to mid-2013 he then served as NHMRC Sidney Sax Public Health Fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston. In parallel, Adam became The Commonwealth Fund’s Inaugural Visiting Fellow for 2012-13 in New York City. Prof Elshaug is recipient of numerous research awards and over 100 invitations to address conferences, government, academic, insurance and health technology assessment groups internationally. He serves as Associate Editor forBMC Health Services Research and has first-author publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, BMJ, Journal of the American Medical Association, Medical Journal of Australia, BMJ Quality & Safety. Supervisor Homepage