Rate My Professor Joachim Sturmberg

Joachim Sturmberg is Conjoint Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. He holds the qualifications MBBS, MFM, FRACGP, and PhD. His career includes serving as Professor in the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Newcastle since January 2009 and previous appointments such as Conjoint Associate Professor of General Practice and roles at Monash University Department of General Practice from 2004 to 2012. Sturmberg maintains an active clinical practice as a general practitioner while advancing academic contributions in primary care and health systems research.

Sturmberg's research specializations encompass systems and complexity in health, primary care medicine, medical education, evidence-based medicine, health promotion, and health care management. He has produced 392 publications, garnering 4,599 citations and 89,045 reads on ResearchGate. Key works include editing the Handbook of Systems and Complexity in Health (Springer, 2013, with Carmel M. Martin), The Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare (Springer, 2016), Health System Redesign (Springer, 2018), and Embracing Complexity in Health: The Transformation of Science, Practice, and Policy (Springer, 2019). Notable articles feature "Multimorbidity as the manifestation of network disturbances" (Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2016) and "Systems and Complexity Thinking in the General Practice Literature: An Integrative, Historical Narrative Review" (Annals of Family Medicine, 2014). As Foundation President of the International Society for Systems and Complexity Sciences for Health from 2017 to 2022, he has shaped the field through leadership and editorial roles, including Associate Editor for the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice and Guest Editor for PLOS One. His scholarship promotes person-centred care, systemic health reform, and responses to multimorbidity and pandemics.