Liz Halcomb

An international award-winning nurse academic, Professor Halcomb is the inaugural Professor of Primary Health Care Nursing at the University of Wollongong. She leads a strong research program in primary care nursing, with particular emphasis on nursing in general practice, chronic disease and nursing workforce issues. Liz is an Editor of Collegian and the Chief Editor of Nurse Researcher (a journal of the Royal College of Nursing UK). She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Primary Health (AJPH) and has previously been an Editor for BMC Family Practice.

Rupert Payne

Professor Payne is a GP and Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Exeter, UK. His research and educational interests focus on polypharmacy and medication optimisation. He has been the consultant editor for the UK journal Prescriber since 2016, which is targeted at a primary care clinical readership and covers all aspects of prescribing, therapeutics and medicines management.

Virginia Lewis

Professor Lewis holds a Research Chair in Community Health in the Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. She has more than 30 years’ experience as a health services researcher and evaluator, and has been an Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Primary Health (AJPH) since 2015. The AJPH aims to provide high quality, robust evidence and commentary on community health services, primary care and primary health. It focuses on practice and broader policy questions, as well as research. The Journal builds on a long tradition of multidisciplinary research and practice in primary health care, and reflects widely held values that emphasise illness prevention and social inclusion.