Rate My Professor David Greenfield

Professor David Greenfield is the Professor of Health Leadership and Management in the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales. He holds a BSc, BA, and BSocWk from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Certificate in IT from the University of Technology Sydney, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. A systems, organisational, and improvement expert with 35 years of experience in metropolitan, regional, and remote health and community settings, he focuses on educating and mentoring professionals to lead, manage, and innovate in complex environments. His work involves evaluations of complex problems, strategic and policy reviews, and collaborative translational research at the intersection of improvement and implementation sciences.

Greenfield's research examines healthcare as complex adaptive systems, deriving strategies to enhance organisation, management, evaluation, efficiency, safety, and quality of services. Key areas include health services and systems research, health leadership and management, accountability, regulation, safety, quality, accreditation, health systems, interprofessional practice, and organisational behaviour. He has produced three books: Changing Practice in a Health Organisation (2009), How to Include People with Chronic Disease in Community Activities (2011, co-authored), and Training Group Leaders How to Include People with Chronic Disease in Community Activities (2011, co-authored); nine book chapters; and 180 journal articles. Highly cited works include Health sector accreditation research: a systematic review (2008, International Journal for Quality in Health Care), How and where clinicians exercise power: interprofessional relations in health care (2010, Social Science & Medicine), and recent publications such as Australian infection prevention and control governance, strategy and structure: Design for success (2026, Infection, Disease and Health). His scholarship has over 7,700 citations. Awards include Fellow of the Australasian Association for Quality in Health Care (FAAQHC, 2011), Fellow of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (FISQua, 2013), ISQua Expert (2012), and appointment to the ISQua International Academy of Quality and Safety (2018). Through collaborations, he integrates evidence into strategy, policy, and practice to improve organisational functioning, service delivery, and community outcomes.