Professor Grant Russell
Professor Grant Russell
Professor of Primary Care Research
MBBS FRACGP MFM PhD
Telephone: +61 3 990 24509
Email: grant.russell@monash.edu
Profile
Dr Grant Russell is a GP and health services researcher. He is the Professor of Primary Care Research at Monash University and was between 2011 and 2017 the head of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences’ multi-disciplinary School of Primary Health Care. He is the Director of Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit. SAPCRU aims to improve linkage and exchange between academia, policy, and practice in south-east Melbourne, one of Australia’s most disadvantaged urban regions. Dr Russell is the Australian Lead Investigator of IMPACT, an Australian-Canadian Centre of Research Excellence: IMPACT aims to identify and trial what really matters in optimising access to community based primary health care for vulnerable individuals. He also leads OPTIMISE, an NHMRC Partnership Project that aims to improve the quality of the primary care services received by Australia’s refugee population.
His research program is directed towards understanding and measuring the impact of primary care reform on patients, clinicians and general practices. His academic career commenced during 6½ years living and working in Canada. While in Canada he received a President's Award from the North American Primary Care Research Group for leadership in several national investigations of research capacity in primary care.
He has worked as a family physician for over 20 years in both Canada and Australia, and currently works part-time in a small general practice in Melbourne.