Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 479 7446
- tim.stokes@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice and Head of Department
- Department
- Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MA (Oxf) MPhil (Camb) MB ChB (Edin) MPH (Nott) PhD (Leic) FRCP FRCGP FRNZCGP
- Research summary
- Health Services Research
- Memberships
- Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Primary Health Care
- Editorial Board, Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications
- President, Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC)
Research
Tim Stokes is Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice and Head of Department of General Practice and Rural Health (DSM), Co-Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Technology, and a part-time GP in Dunedin.
Centre for Health Systems and Technology
He was Senior Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Birmingham 2013–2014; Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leicester and Leeds 2006–2013, and Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Leicester, UK 1997-2006.
He was a member of NZ’s Pharmaceutical Management Agency (PHARMAC) Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Group (PTAC) from 2016 to 2022.
He is a health services researcher, with a particular interest in health care delivery and implementation research. He is interested in:
- Rural health services and health systems
- Evaluating complex health system interventions, including whether and how collaborative partnership working in the NZ health system can improve service integration and health outcomes
- New ways of delivering health services for acute and chronic clinical conditions in primary care and across the primary/community – secondary care interface
Current and previous nationally funded research projects as Principal Investigator include:
- Do locality network partnerships improve health system performance and outcomes? HRC Project Grant 20/875
- Do regional DHB groupings improve service integration and health outcomes? HRC Project Grant 18/138
- Delivering better care for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), HRC Research Partnerships for New Zealand Health Delivery Grant 15/655