Professor John Wakerman is a Public Health Medicine specialist and general practitioner who has worked in remote primary health care as a clinician, senior remote health services manager, educator, researcher and advocate for the past three decades. He has specific interests in remote and rural health services research – particularly focusing on increasing access to primary health care, remote health workforce education and training, and in using evidence for advocacy to inform health policy and practice.
He was the Inaugural Director of the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs, a joint centre of Flinders and Charles Darwin Universities. From 2014 to 2019 he held the position of Associate Dean, Flinders NT, responsible for the NT Medical Program, Centre for Remote Health and Poche Centre for indigenous Health.
He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications that constitute a significant body of knowledge relating to improving access to sustainable, high quality Primary Health Care services for populations living in remote and rural regions.
He has served on many local, jurisdictional and national committees and boards, including as Chair of the Central Australian Rural Practitioners Association (CARPA), Deputy Chair of the Central Australian Health Service Board, a member of the NHMRC Health Care Committee, the Advisory Board of the Health and Hospitals Fund and of the Australian Therapeutic Goods Advisory Council. He is a past Chair of the National Rural Health Alliance. He is currently a member of the Health Care Homes Evaluation Working Group.
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