Claire Jackson MBBS, MD, MPH, FRACGP, GAICD

Claire is active in general practice undergraduate and postgraduate education and research for many years, as been extensively involved in health services research and reform. Appointed to the Chair in General Practice at University of Queensland, was appointed to the 12 member National Primary Care Strategy Expert Reference Group. 2008 she provided a commissioned paper for the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission on new models in primary care. Her description of the ‘beacon’ practice model, piloted at Inala Primary Care, was adopted as both the clinical prototype for the Australian Association of Academic General Practitioner’s endorsed model for GP Superclinics, and the basis for UQ’s successful Superclinic tenders in 2009. Inala Primary Care won RACGP Qld ‘Practice of the Year’ in 2009.
Claire has been extensively involved in health services research and reform since the early 90s. She has been a member of both the Primary Health Care Advisory Group and the National Primary Care Strategy ERG - guiding forces behind Australia’s national primary care agenda. Her ‘beacon’ practice model was the clinical prototype for UQ’s successful $ 10 million Superclinic initiative.
Claire has been a national driver in the Health Care Home initiative – publishing and presenting widely on the topic and sitting on national Advisory Committees for both Ministers Plebisek and Ley. She has been Clinical Director of two $ 2.5 million Centres for Research Excellence - one in care integration, the other investigating the impact of researcher and end-user ‘co-creation’ on clinical quality, patient experience, and models of care