Rate My Professor Adam Hannah

Hannah is a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for his project entitled Health workforce crisis: understanding political capacity for policy change, which analyzes the political factors constraining and enabling health workforce policymaking in Australia, Canada, England, and New Zealand. He has published extensively in high-ranking international journals including Nature, Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Policy and Society, and the Australian Journal of Political Science. Key publications include COVID-19: talk of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ lets governments off the hook (Nature, 2022, with Katie Attwell and Julie Leask); Ideas and crisis in policy and administration: existing links and research frontiers (Public Administration, 2022, with Erik Baekkeskov and Tamara Tubakovic); Media actors as policy entrepreneurs: a case study of “No Jab, No Play” and “No Jab, No Pay” mandatory vaccination policies in Australia (Policy Sciences, 2024, with Katie Attwell et al.); The promises and pitfalls of polysemic ideas: ‘One Health’ and antimicrobial resistance policy in Australia and the UK (Policy Sciences, 2020, with Erik Baekkeskov); and Ignoring harm, saving face: non-knowledge, senior public servants and the Robodebt scheme (Australian Journal of Political Science, 2025, with Linda Courtenay Botterill). These contributions underscore his impact on understanding crisis policymaking, policy capacity, and health governance.