CRCATSIH Program Leader: Ross Bailie

Program 1: Healthy Start, Healthy Life

Professor Ross Bailie has almost twenty years of experience in interdisciplinary research in public health, spanning the fields of environmental health, health-related infrastructure and health services research. His qualifications include a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Master of Philosophy in Maternal and Child Health and a Doctor of Medicine (Community Health) from the University of Cape Town.

He is a Member of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, a Fellow of the College of Community Health of South Africa, a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ross was a Program Leader in the CRC for Aboriginal Health’s Comprehensive Primary Health Care, Health Services and Workforce Program and made a significant contribution to the CRCAH in this capacity and also as a researcher into health-related infrastructure and health services. He has contributed to improving the quality and availability of information on health-related infrastructure in Aboriginal communities, both nationally and in the Northern Territory.

A major focus of his work has been the organisation and quality of primary health care services in Australia, most importantly in Aboriginal communities.

Ross was Project Leader of the CRCAH’s largest research project, the Audit and Best Practice in Chronic Disease (ABCD) project, and is the Scientific Director of One21seventy—the newly established National Centre for Quality Improvement in Indigenous Primary Health Care.