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Chief Investigators
Prof Richard Ruffin
Prof Ruffin is the head of the Department of Medicine at the Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, which comprises both The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Lyell McEwin Hospital. He is an internationally recognised expert in respiratory medicine and is involved in many research projects. Some of his interests include the effects of air quality on asthma, the impact of smoking in the household on children with asthma, and the role of zinc in normal and inflamed airways. Added to this are his clinical duties at the North Western Adelaide Health Service.
Prof Ruffin will advise on updated treatment of asthma and chronic lung disease as a result of the information gained by the North West Adelaide Health Study.
Assoc Prof Anne Taylor
Assoc Prof Taylor is the Manager of the Population Research and Outcomes Studies Unit in the Department of Health. She is an epidemiologist and holds a PhD. Anne has managed many large-scale population studies over the last decade and has been at the cutting edge of research, establishing the efficacy of different approaches to population studies, especially telephone survey methodologies.
She has a well-developed interest in the population perspective of chronic disease monitoring and surveillance, and represents the state on national committees addressing the need for standardised and comparable approaches to data collection. Assoc Prof Taylor oversees much of the management of the North West Adelaide Health Study that is conducted in the Population Research and Outcomes Studies Unit.
Dr Pat Phillips
Dr Phillips is the Director of the Diabetes Centre and Endocrinology at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He has for many years been at the forefront of diabetes research and treatment. His recognition of the importance of gathering population information on diabetes has lead to the setting up of the North West Adelaide Health Study. Dr Phillips is keen to monitor the high rate of undiagnosed diabetes in the population. He warns that there are perhaps as many people with diabetes of which they are not aware as there are people diagnosed with diabetes.
The North West Adelaide Health Study will provide information to help Dr Phillips promote the recognition of undiagnosed diabetes in the community, as well as improve the management of people who are already diagnosed with diabetes.
Prof David Wilson
Prof Wilson is a senior epidemiologist and research scientist with the Health Observatory and The University of Adelaide Department of Medicine. He has an international reputation in the field of public health, and often advises professionals in the United States and elsewhere on the monitoring of public health in Australia. He has keenly followed changes in chronic diseases in the South Australian population over many years. He was instrumental in establishing the Health Omnibus Survey, which has been held every year since 1991. This is a survey of health conditions and health-related behaviour of adult South Australians. The information gathered provides a picture of how diseases such as diabetes and asthma increase or decrease over time.
Prof Wilson will analyse the results of the North West Adelaide Health Study to determine to what degree these chronic diseases go unnoticed in the population, and how their treatment can be better managed.
Assoc Prof Robert Adams
Assoc Prof Adams is a respiratory physician and is a member of the Discipline of Medicine at The University of Adelaide. He is the Director of the Health Observatory, Basil Hetzel Research Institute at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he has a focus on health care system improvement and innovative approaches for chronic disease prevention and healthy lifestyles. He is the inaugural Chair of the SA Health Literacy Alliance, a diverse group of 60 members from university, health, education, research and clinical and community sectors, formed to provide leadership and support for developing and applying the concept of health literacy as a means of equitably improving health and wellbeing.
Dr Kay Price 
Kay is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of South Australia, and has expertise in qualitative research specifically critical analyses and political methodologies (critical, poststructural & cultural studies). Her interests include analysis of systems and interfaces within systems, analysis of health care and health services, and managing complexity. Her research has focussed on exploring and evaluating service delivery and creating opportunities for the provision of appropriate health services and a health workforce in the global marketplace. She particularly enjoys theorising differently and challenging taken-for-granted views or assumptions so as to advance health care and health services.
Co-Investigators and Collaborators
Other investigators connected with the study and involved in designing, administering, analysing and reporting on the North West Adelaide Health Study and the associated sub-studies include:
Ms Janet Grant – Senior Epidemiologist & Study Co-ordinator (SA Population Health Intergenerational Research [SAPHIRe] & NWAH Study), Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit, SA Health
Ms Sandy Pickering – Clinic Co-ordinator, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Health Service
Ms Alicia Montgomerie - Epidemiologist (NWAH Study), Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit, SA Health
Ms Sarah Appleton - The Health Observatory, The University of Adelaide
Dr Clive Beng - Senior Director, Clinical Chemistry, Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Prof Mark Daniel - Professor and Research Chair for Social Epidemiology, University of South Australia
Ms Eleonora Dal Grande – Senior Epidemiologist, Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit, SA Health
Ms Tiffany Gill – Senior Epidemiologist, Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit, SA Health
Dr Catherine Hill – Staff Specialist in Rheumatology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Prof John Horowitz - Professor of Cardiology, The University of Adelaide, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Prof Graeme Hugo - National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA), The University of Adelaide
Dr Bill Jeffries – Head, Department of Medicine, Lyell McEwin Hospital
Dr James Martin - Director of Pulmonary Medicine, Women & Children's Hospital
Dr Zumin Shi - Senior Epidemiologist, Population Research and Outcome Studies Unit, SA Health
Dr James Wang - Senior Medical Scientist, Endocrinology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Prof Gary Wittert – Mortlock Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Adelaide
Dr Peter Zalewski - Department of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, (The Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
Website last updated: Sept 2009
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