The Serious and Continuing Illness Policy and Practice Study (SCIPPS) aims to find policy and health systems solutions for people with serious and continuing illness and those who care for them. We will concentrate on diabetes, chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The Chief Investigators make up the Program Management Group and are responsible for the strategic management of the program and for providing oversight to the Program Staff.

• Professor Stephen Leeder Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and a professor of public health at the University of Sydney. His research interests as a clinical epidemiologist have been around asthma and cardiovascular disease.
• Associate Professor Ruth Colagiuri is based in the School of Public Health and is Director of the Diabetes Unit, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney.
• Dr James Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer in Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Sydney.
• Associate Professor Stephen Jan is a Senior Health Economist at the George Institute for International Health, Sydney.
• Professor Nicholas Glasgow is Dean, Medicine & Health Sciences at The Australian National University (ANU). His research interests include primary health care systems and respiratory health.
• Professor Judith Whitworth, (former Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research) and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at ANU in Canberra and former head of the High Blood Pressure Research Unit.
• Mr Robert Wells is Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Executive Director of the ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences. He works on a range of health policy and systems issues, including primary care, private health insurance, rural health and the health workforce.

The Associate Investigators form part of the Steering Committee who will support the Program Management Group. The Steering Committee will advise on methodological and technical issues across the course of the program.

• Professor Steven Boyages
• Mr Paul Gross
• Emeritus Professor Ron Penny
• Professor George Rubin
• Professor Tim Usherwood
• Associate Professor Paul Dugdale
• Professor Marjan Kljakovic
• Dr Charles Guest

The Program Staff (Research Directorate) are responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating the program in consultation with the study investigators and partners.

• Dr Clive Aspin, Research Fellow, SCIPPS, University of Sydney
• Natalie Plant, Research Officer, SCIPPS, University of Sydney
• Justin McNab, Research Fellow, SCIPPS, University of Sydney
• Kate Corcoran, Program Support Officer, SCIPPS, University of Sydney
• Tanisha Jowsey, Senior Research Officer, SCIPPS, ANU
• Laurann Yen, Research Fellow, SCIPPS, ANU

• ACT Division of General Practice Ltd
• ACT Health
• Alliance of NSW Divisions of General Practice
• AMS Mt Druitt
• Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
• Anglican Retirement Villages, Diocese of Sydney
• ANU Medical School
• Australian Health Care Consumers Association
• Australian Lung Foundation
• Blue Mountains General Practice Network
• Diabetes Australia
• Hawkesbury-Hills Division of General Practice
• Institute for Health Economics and Technology Assessment
• Milbank Memorial Fund (USA)
• Nepean Division of General Practice
• NSW Central West Division of General Practice
• NSW Department of Health
• University of Sydney Faculty of Pharmacy & St Vincent’s Hospital Clinical School (UNSW)
• Sydney West Area Health Service
• The George Institute for International Health
• University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine
• WentWest Ltd