Professor Justin Beilby is the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research of Torrens University Australia.   

Prior to joining Torrens University Australia Professor Beilby was the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide As Executive Dean, he oversaw all undergraduate training in medicine, nursing, dentistry, health sciences, psychology and public health at the University of Adelaide.  Prior to that, Professor Beilby held the position of Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice, at the University of Adelaide from 2002 - 2005.  

Professor Beilby has been an active researcher and general practitioner for nearly 30 years. His research has focused on Indigenous health, workforce planning, primary care financing, chronic illness and the quality use of medicines in both urban and rural settings.  More recently his work has moved into the areas of primary care, community care and aged care. He is currently part of a global team at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing working to design and developed new models for managing and intervening in the community and general practice.    He is about to begin a new NHMRC funded study examining the influence of the seasonality on cardiovascular disease.

He has published widely in chronic disease management, ageing, workforce planning, asthma, diabetes, point- of- care testing and primary care financing.   He has been intimately involved in national and state health policy research, chairing the General Practice Item Restructuring Working Group and evaluating the Medical Benefits Scheme asthma item numbers.    Professor Beilby has been a member of the Strategic Research Initiatives Working Group of the NHMRC.  He was a Commissioner in National Hospital and Health Reform Commission in 2008 - 2009.  He has extensive experience in the health system reform having been a member of the South Australian Clinical Senate and Health Performance Council.