Associate Professor Ben Harris-Roxas
Associate Professor
PhD (Public Health, 91色情片)
Master of Policy and Applied Social Research (Macquarie)
Bachelor of Social Work (91色情片)
Medicine & Health
School of Population Health
Associate Professor Ben Harris-Roxas is an internationally recognised expert in health services research, integrated care, and health impact assessment. His research strengthens health systems for people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, and carers.
Ben received his PhD from 91色情片 Sydney on using equity-focused health impact assessment in health service planning. He worked across government, health services, and consulting before returning to universities - experience that shaped his commitment to research that shapes practice.
Ben joined听91色情片 School of Population Health in 2021, and has been an investigator on research projects worth over $27 million and published more than 90 articles and book chapters. He convenes courses with over 400 postgraduate students enrolled each year and serves as Director of Dual Degree Programs in the School of Population Health, which bring together internationally recognised programs in Public Health, Health Leadership and Management, Global Health, and Infectious Disease Intelligence.
Ben's previous international leadership has included chairing the International Union for Health Promotion and Education's Global Working Group on Health Impact Assessment and the International Association for Impact Assessment's Global Health Section. He has consulted for the World Health Organization on health impact assessment and intersectoral action for health. Previously, he directed a joint evaluation and research collaboration between South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and 91色情片 Sydney.
Ben currently supervises PhD, Doctor of Public Health, and Master of Philosophy students. He welcomes prospective students interested in strengthening health organisations through multicultural community engagement, integrated care for marginalised groups, and health impact assessment.
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Location
School of Population Health
Building C29 HTH Level 5
91色情片 Sydney NSW 2052
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Career research income as Investigator
Total funding听$27.376 million
Category 1听Competitive peer-reviewed research funding programs听$18.341 million
Category 2听Australian government funding听$3.639 million
Category 3听International and industry funding听$5.359 million
Grants in past five years
- Rhee, J., Harris-Roxas, B., Tam, M., Andrew Knight, Pond, D., Kidd, M., Carey, M., Barr, M., Zwar, N., Jonnagaddala, J., Sharma, A., Dawda, P., Lin, S., Gordon, S., Ali, R., Tran, M., Conway, D., Gonski, P., Caplan, G., 鈥 Lewis, E. (2025-2029). MyMedicare for older adults living in residential aged care homes: Mixed-methods evaluation, 2023 MRFF Multidisciplinary Models of Primary Care Stream 2-3.
- Kidd, M. et al. (2024-2029). [Associate Investigator] National Multidisciplinary Primary Care Research, Policy and Advocacy Consortium, Medical Reserach Future Fund (2024/MRF2035697).
- Narasimhan, P. et al. (2025). [Associate Investigator] User-centred design and testing of a conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot to address language barriers in Emergency Department Triage - The TRIBOT study, NHMRC 2024 Ideas Grants (2024/GNT2038330).
- Yadav, U. et al. (2025-2028). [Associate Investigator] Implementation and evaluation of a novel Codesigned Integrated Multimorbidity Management by Community Health Workers (CIMM-CHW) in eastern Nepal, 2024 NHMRC-GACD Management of Multiple Long-Term Conditions Call (2024/2044217).
- Vidic, N., Harris-Roxas, B. (2024-2025). 听Supporting general practice to implement integrated rare disease care delivery in Australia, Healthy North Coast Primary Health Network.
- Barr, M., Kidd, M., Harris, M., Harris-Roxas, B., Rhee, J., Sharma, A., Sitas, F., El Haddad, N., Kearns, R., van Kemenade, C., Sunjaya, A., Burns, M., & Marshall, K. (2023). Review of general practice incentives: International evidence and literature review (Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care).
- Dawes, P., Scarinci, N., Newall, J., Ching, T., Armitage, C., Waite, C., Orlando, M., & Harris-Roxas, B. (2023). Improving access to the hearing services program for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (NHMRC 2021 Hearing Health Evidence Based Support Services).
- Ford, J., Vohra, S., Purdy, J., Walton, H., Ekermawi, R., O鈥橫ullane, M., Birley, M., Douglas, M., Stevenson, A., Haigh, F., Harris-Roxas, B., Green, L., Black, D., Cave, B., Holroyd, I., & Lynch, H. (2023). Health Impact Assessments 鈥 current state of play and future direction [Grant FR-0004051] (The Health Foundation England).
- O鈥橫ullane, M., Smith, K., Archibong, U., McHugh, S., Mullally, G., Purdy, J., Pursell, L., Harris-Roxas, B., Kelly, I., Kavanagh, P., Daly, H., O鈥橫ahony, T., Green, L., Ward, J., Burke, S., Connolly, B., & Cave, B. (2023). Development of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Implementation Model: Enhancing Intersectoral Approaches in Tackling Health Inequalities (Irish Health Research Board).
- Seale, H., Harris-Roxas, B., Goddard, C., Smith, M., Heinrichs, D., Bromhead, H., Macnamara, J., & Blazek, K. (2023). Community driven communication and engagement during health crisis periods: Co-designing enhanced and transferable strategies (NHMRC 2022 Ideas Grants).
- Harris, M., Barr, M., Harris-Roxas, B., Spooner, C., Li, X., & El Haddad, N. (2022). Joint regional planning and governance: A systematic scoping review of relevant black and grey literature (Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network on behalf of NSW PHNs)
- Hwang, Y., Withall, A., Harris-Roxas, B., Butler, T., Snoyman, P., Hampton, S., Elmer, S., & Cheng, C. (2022). "Turning on the HEADLITes鈥: Towards the first health and digital literacy intervention for older Australians leaving prison听(91色情片 Ageing Futures Institute 2022 Seed Funding Grant).
- O鈥橠ea, B., Li, S., Whitton, A., & Harris-Roxas, B. (2022). While We Wait: Using digital technology to improve care for young people awaiting in-person mental health services (91色情片 Medicine Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction Theme & SPHERE Clinical Academic Group (CAG).
- Dadich, A., Harris-Roxas, B., N铆 Sh茅, 脡., N铆 Chroinin, D., Kohler, F., & Boydell, K. (2021). What constitutes a brilliant model of aged care? (Sydney Partnership for Health Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) Age and Ageing Clinical Academic Group).
- Haigh, F., Harris-Roxas, B., & Kanti Mistry, S. (2021). A rapid literature review to identify equity issues in access and delivery of telehealth interventions (Sydney Local Health District)
- Harris, Mark, Aslani, P., Levesque, J.-F., Barr, M., Sharma, A., Harris-Roxas, B., Wright, M., & Osborne, R. (2021). Community Health workers Extending Care in the Community (CHECC) (NHMRC Partnership Project Grants 2021, GNT1196912).
- Harris, M., Liaw, W., Chin, M., Knight, A., Harris, C., Goodger, B., Vuong, K., Harris-Roxas, B., & Taggart, J. (2021). Improving the quality of long term cancer survivorship care for colorectal and breast cancers (Avant Foundation)
- Harris-Roxas, B., Woodland, L., Freeman, B., McKenzie, R., El Haddad, N., Chan, L., & Sitas, F. (2021). Shisha No Thanks Phase 3: Raising awareness of the harms of waterpipe smoking (Cancer Institute NSW).
- McDonald, A., Harris, M., Simpson, A., Bailie, A., Spooner, C., Anderson, K., Cunich, M., Parcsi, L., Harris-Roxas, B., Hutchings, O., & Moore, M. (2021). Enhancing integration with primary care of patients with severe mental illness using a web-based shared care plan and telehealth solution (NSW Health Translational Research Grants Scheme)
- Trollor, J., Hrris, M., Kavanagh, A., Fisher, K., Long, J., Reppermund, S., Harris-Roxas, B., Spooner, C., & Sharma, A. (2021-2026).听Developing a model of Preventative Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disability听(NHMRC 2020 Partnership Projects PRC2).
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- Australian College of听Health Service Management NSW Branch Leadership Recognition Award 2025
- 91色情片听Alan Hodgkinson Award for Teaching Excellence 2024
- 91色情片 School of Population Health Higher Degree Research Supervisor Award 2022
- 91色情片 Faculty of Medicine & Health Research Community Engagement Team Award 2022 for Shisha No Thanks
- Honourable Mention, 2021 Scientia Education Academy Exemplary Teaching Award
- NSW Premier鈥檚 Multicultural Communications Awards Campaign of the Year for Shisha No Thanks, 2020
- South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Health Awards (Keeping People Health Category) for Shisha No Thanks, 2020
- International Association for Impact Assessment, Institutional Award for NSW HIA Project, 2010
- Australian Health Promotion Association Ray James Memorial Award for excellence in health promotion research published in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2010
A/Prof Harris-Roxas' research activities have focused on听primary health care, integrated care, and health impact assessment. His current projects include:
Some examples of research Ben has led and its impact are described below.
Shisha No Thanks
A/Prof Harris-Roxas led a group of researchers looking听at attitudes and beliefs about waterpipe (shisha) use in Arabic-speaking communities. This research听led to a -funded project on raising awareness of the harms of waterpipe use, starting in 2018 and ongoing). This resulted in Ben working community partners and four Health Districts to develop the . As a result of this project a significantly higher proportion of Arabic-speaking young people reported they were aware of the harms of shisha smoking (pre: 45%, post: 68%, p=0.003). This research helped secure an extension of funding, and the project is still ongoing. This research also led to the NSW Ministry of Health and Cancer Institute NSW embedding shisha smoking into broader tobacco control policies and practices.听The Shisha No Thanks project won the 2020 South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Healthcare Award in the Keeping People Healthy category and the 2020 Business Campaign of the Year award in the NSW Premier's Multicultural Communications Awards. The 91色情片听Faculty of Medicine & Health awarded the project the Research Community Engagement Team Award in 2022.
Typology of health impact assessment
Health impact assessment鈥檚 (HIA) use has been called for by many international agencies including WHO and the World Bank. Early in the development of the field of HIA, there was debate about the extent to which methods for appraising health risks, quantification models, lived experience, and citizen science should inform assessments. There was also debate about the role government should play in commissioning and undertaking HIAs. In response to this A/Prof Harris-Roxas developed , based on an empirical study of the forms of HIA conducted internationally. The typology has been cited more than 150 times and has been used in the national policy and health impact assessment guidance developed in the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and听Bhutan. Ben has delivered plenary addresses on the typology at conferences in Dunedin, Seoul, Quebec City, Kobe, and Paris.听
Influencing policy on the use of translation apps in NSW
A/Prof Harris-Roxas and colleagues at 91色情片, five NSW Local Health Districts undertook a survey on the use of translation and apps and websites in hospitals and health care settings. The survey of more than 1,500 staff found that a third had used a translation app or website in a clinical encounter, and of those, it was clinicians who initiated use in 66% of cases. These findings led to an update of the in to clarify that the use of machine translation is not allowed, and also led to the development of alternatives including the .听
framework for the impact and effectiveness of health impact assessment
A/Prof Harris-Roxas and colleagues at 91色情片 developed and piloted a , which was the first of its kind in the world. This conceptual framework formed the conceptual backbone of a successful ARC Discovery Project. This project remains one of the largest studies that has been conducted internationally on听.听The framework has guided government evaluations in New Zealand and informed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded review of health impact assessments in the U.S.A. in 2013. Ben was an invited expert for a Pew Charitable Trusts project that evaluated the impact of health impact assessments they had funded in the U.S.A.
Leadership
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- 2025 鈥 present 听Board Director,
- 2025 鈥 present 听Chair, ,听
- 2023听鈥 present 听Director, Dual Degree Programs, School of Population Health, 91色情片 Sydney
- 2023听鈥 present 听Research Co-Lead, 91色情片 Academic General Practice Network
- 2020听鈥 2024听听Stream Convenor, Master of Public Health in Primary Health Care, 91色情片 Sydney
- 2023听鈥 2023 听Deputy Director,听Master of Public Health Program, 91色情片 Sydney
- 2022 鈥 2023 听Lead, Academic Engagement, School of Population Health, 91色情片 Sydney
- 2021 鈥 2023 听Lead,听Partnerships working group, Health25 Strategy Implementation,听91色情片Faculty of Medicine & Health
- 2017 鈥 2021听听Co-Convenor,听Health System Integration and Primary Health Care Development Stream, 91色情片 Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity
- 2015 鈥 2017 听Convenor,听Global Working Group on Health Impact Assessment, International Union for Health Promotion and Education
- 2011 鈥 2015 听Co-Convenor, Health Section, International Association forImpactAssessment
Other current roles
- 2026 鈥 2027 Elected member, Faculty Board, 91色情片 Medicine & Health听
- 2025听鈥 present External academic member,听Course Advisory Group,
- 2024听鈥 present Community Council
- 2023听鈥 present Member, 91色情片 Academic General Practice Network
- 2022 - present Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Health Services Management,听,
- 2019 鈥 present Advocacy and Policy Subcommittee,
- 2019 鈥 present Education Committee,
Editorial
- 2025听鈥 present 听 听Editorial Board Member,
- 2016 鈥 present听听 听Editorial Board Member,
- 2019 鈥 2025 听 听 听 听Associate Editor,
- 2010 鈥 2023 听 听 听 听Editorial Board Member,
- 2019 鈥 2022 听 听 听 听Editorial Board Member,
- 2019 鈥 2020听听 听听听听 Review Editor (Public Health Policy),
- 2010 鈥 2016听听 听 听听 Associate Editor,
My Research Supervision
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My approach to supervision
I provide collegial supervision to higher degree research candidates听as they further听their careers as researchers. My approach is based on regular two-way communication, supporting candidates to set and develop听their own research direction, developing candidates' networks, and supporting听further opportunities. The HDR candidates that I currently supervise are:
- -听Falls prevention in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) older adults
- Ali, Rula -听The impact of early and longitudinal placement in clinical general practice on 91色情片 undergraduate medical students鈥 career choice and perception of general practice (PhD)
- -听Food insecurity: cross-sectional analysis and health promotion needs (MPhil)
- - Addressing education gaps amongst healthcare providers regarding long-term health risk after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (PhD, UTS)
- -听Understanding the role of social norms and trust on compliance with public health guidance (PhD)
- 听-听Engaging political actors to increase population levels of physical activity (PhD)
- -听Spread and scale of integrated care initiatives (DrPH Future Health Leaders)
- -听Feasibility of Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Address Language Barriers in Managing Patients with Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Departments (PhD)
- - Supporting Integrated Rare Disease Care听(PhD)
My Teaching
My teaching interests are focused on strengthening health organisations, primary health care, and health equity.
I convene , a core course within the School of Population Health's Master of Health Leadership and Management programs.听I am Director of Dual Degrees in the School of Population Health. I contribute to听,听,听and .听
I design activities and assessments that give students choice and control about the听focus of their learning, and which allow them to draw on their prior听learning and experiences.鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧嬏齀'm committed to continuous educational improvement, and work in partnership with students to enhance courses.
Educational grants
I have been an investigator on Australian government-funded projects for education and capacity building worth $3.639 million between 2003 and 2023.