Siaw-Teng Liaw

Emeritus Professor Liaw was Professor of General Practice at UNSW Sydney and a clinician scientist who uses mixed methodologies to research digital health with a focus on electronic decision support, mHealth, data quality & interoperability and ethicolegal & social issues. He has published extensively on his innovative research and development program.

As Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth (AUS-135), he assisted WHO member countries, especially LMICs, with assessing and improving digital health maturity, capability and capacity to implement and sustain national digital health programs to achieve universal health coverage, safe and cost-effective integrated person-centred health services and community development. He has developed sustained international collaborations on digital health programs in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and America.

He is a Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (2012) and Founding Fellow, Australasian College of Health Informatics (2002), Australian Institute of Digital Health (2020) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (2017). He is the current Chair of the IMIA Primary Care Informatics WG and the Chair, National Research & Evaluation Ethics Committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).