Prof Jon Adams

Jon's extensive research program spanning over 30 years includes significant focus upon a vast range of health and health care topics, including: formal care, community-based care and self-care for those with a range of chronic illnesses (especially cardiovascular disease, stroke, affective disorders and dementia); practices, behaviours and initiatives to promote, facilitate and improve quality of life, wellbeing and prevention; healthy ageing; women's health; rural and remote health issues; cancer and palliative care; healthy cities and urban design; indigenous health; and the health of priority and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations, amongst others.

Jon is one one of only eight academics worldwide to have been appointed as a Senior Fellow and Senior Mentor on the International Primary Care Research Leadership Program, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford (2010-ongoing).

Jon's research program has attracted over $26M in competitive external funding to date including 23 Category 1 Grants (with 19 NHMRC and ARC grants). Jon has authored over 630 peer-reviewed academic publications and is Chief Editor of 11 international research books and author of over 70 book chapters with leading publishing houses (including Oxford University Press, Imperial College Press, Routledge, Ashgate, Springer Nature and Palgrave MacMillan). He currently has an H-Index of 68, a total citation count of >18,000.