Background
Professor Kathy Eagar is Director of the Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD). She has over twenty five years experience in the health and community care systems, during which she had divided her time equally between being a clinician, a senior manager and a health academic. She has authored over 250 articles, papers and reports on management, quality, outcomes, information systems and funding of the Australia and New Zealand health and community care systems.
Professor Eagar leads a research team of 40 researchers covering 18 disciplines. They have a national reputation reflecting a track record of policy-relevant health services research & development & the translation of research findings into policy & practice. Their research interests lie in health service delivery, organisation & performance, care coordination & integration, health outcomes, health policy & management, health & community care financing and casemix classifications across settings.
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