Dr Madhan Balasubramanian is Senior Lecturer in Health and Aged Care Management, and Business Research Lead at the College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University. He is also a Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
Madhan's interests broadly lie at the intersection of health policy, health systems and health services. He has a public health and health management background, with a focus on the future design and sustainable development of core health system components and developing integrated systems to address the sustainable development goals. He brings an excellent track record, relative to opportunity.
He has research interests and a research track record in three areas: health workforce (re)design, health and aged care management, and disadvantaged populations. His primary area of specialisation has been in the health workforce, where he is internationally recognised for his work on integrated care and collaborative practice, health professional migration, health practitioner regulation, practice activity and surveillance studies, and future workforce modelling.
Madhan has published 50+ research outputs, including 30 scientific research articles, 4 commentaries/debates, 3 editorials, 3 systematic reviews, 1 book and 2 commissioned government reports. He has a google scholar h index of 13, and his citations are projected to triple in the next two years.
Madhan has won three nationally competitive Australian Government fellowships. Overall, he has received over a million Australian dollars in nationally/internationally competitive fellowships and grants (as CIA), in addition to scholarships and academic prizes. Madhan has active research projects that he conceptualised and developed across two states in Australia (NSW and SA), and internationally in the United Kingdom and India.
Qualifications
Madhan completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide (2015) and held a prestigious NHMRC Sidney Sax Fellowship (public health and health services) at the University of Sydney and Kings College London (2017-21). He was also an Endeavour Fellow involved in research on global organisations, based in Geneva (2015-16). Between 2008-09, he completed an Australia-India Council Junior Fellowship based at the School of Population Health, the University of Queensland. He completed his Masters of Health Service Management with Honours at Griffith University, Australia (2004-05). He has a primary qualification in oral health and completed his Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 2003.
Honours, awards and grants
Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards [~ $564,298]
2017- NHMRC Sidney Sax Early Career Research Fellowship ($423,768)
2015-16 Endeavour Research Fellowship ($24,500)
2014 Best PhD Presentation Award (scroll of honour and $500)
2013-14 NHMRC Dental Health Services Research PhD Supporting Scholarship ($10,580)
2012 Second Runner-up team in Australian Entrepreneurship Challenge ($2000)
2010-13 PhD Postgraduate Research Scholarship ($85,750)
2008-09 DFAT Australia-India Council Junior Fellowship ($12,000)
2008 Travel Award by Hospitaux Universities of Geneva (CHF 1250)
2007 World Bank Institute Scholarship (EUR 800)
2005 Eberhard Wenzel Scholarship for International Public Health (scroll of honour and $2000)
2004 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence (scroll of honour)
2003 Community development awards in oral health care
Grants and consultancies [~$785,000]
2023-24: Balasubramanian M, Bogomolova S, Khadka J, Zhu R, Gordon J, Harris C. Innovative care models for the prevention of dental, vision and hearing conditions among culturally and linguistically diverse older adults availing home care services in Australia: investigating the disease burdern. Flinders Foundation - $25,000
2021-22: V Lin, Carlton AL, Short SD, Balasubramanian, M, Bourgeault I & Leslie K WHO Funding, Grantee, World Health Organisation. Global design, reform and implementation of health regulatory systems - $159,264 USD.
2019-23: Wilson, A, Huckel Schneider, C, Norris, S. Holden A, Balasubramanian M. NSW Health Funding, New South Wales Health. Evaluation of the Primary School Mobile Dental Program - $549,566.
2019-20: Holden A, Leadbeatter D, Balasubramanian, M, Sohn, W. Consumer involvement in the design and delivery of professional competency examinations and assessments - $25,000
2017-21: Balasubramanian, M. Gallagher JE, Short SD. NHMRC. NHMRC Sidney Sax Early Career Research Fellowship. Strengthening health workforce integration - $423,768 [not included in the total for grants; counted in fellowships]
Key responsibilities
Editorial appointments
2020- Editorial Board Member, BMC Health Services Research; Q1 Medicine, Health Policy
2021- Associate Editor, Fronters in Pubic Health (Ageing and Public Health); Q1 Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Professional appointments
2022 Immediate Past President, Network for Practice-Based Research, International Association for Dental Research. Vice President (2019) President (2020-22); Board Member, Consitution Committee, International Associate for Dental Research
Please visit Research Tab for more information on publications, projects and other outputs. Teaching Tab for teaching responsibilities.
Students, please visit the Research supervision Tab and further information on Student Projects and Research Opportunities. Any queries or further information please direct to madhan.balasubramanian@flinders.edu.au