Dr Janice Mary Johnston has worked for the School of Public Health and its precursor the Department of Community Medicine since July 1990 and has extensive research, undergraduate and post-graduate education,and service experience. She specialises in the field of health policy and management. Within the broad scope of health service research, her major interests include topics that have major impact on health service delivery and health care management locally and internationally, introduce economic evaluation to improve health care delivery and focus on improving equity in the provision and delivery of health care. She is principle or co-investigator of a number of research projects with a focus on healthcare policy, aspects of the organisation, management and quality of health care the computerisation of clinical practice as well as the acceptability and feasibility of electronic medical records among physician’s and patient’s and undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and learning. In recent years, she has focused on developing the tools for and undertaking the evaluation of specific health service models including quality of care and healthcare accreditation, workload and team work within multidisciplinary teams, manpower planning and projection, aspects of care delivery for complex chronic diseases, assessing ‘value for money’ aspects of disease specific service delivery, waiting time, access to care, the public and private health care interface, computerization of health care, and determinants of ‘cross-border’ health seeking behavior.