Professor C. D'Arcy J. Holman
Professor C. D'Arcy J. Holman
MBBS MPH(Harv.) PhD GCLaw GAICD FACE FAFPHM FAIM
Chair in Public Health
School of Population Health
The University of Western Australia
Crawley
Western Australia
Professor D'Arcy Holman was appointed in 1994 to the Foundation Chair in Public Health at The University of Western Australia and was the inaugural Head of the School of Population Health. Among his achievements at UWA are the world-class WA Health Data Linkage System and the industry-responsive Health Science degree programs with Commerce (the BHlthSc and BHlthSc/BCom), ranked by students and graduates as the highest rated undergraduate degree programs at UWA and the highest rated courses of their category in Australia.
Professor Holman is a director of HBF Health Inc. and board chairman of Healthguard Ltd (both large not-for-profit health insurers) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Professor Holman was awarded Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Management in recognition of his contributions to the leadership of health organisations and the development of leadership skills in health administrators through his national short courses. He is also a law student at Murdoch University, where he has won the Freehills Prize in Law for Part II of the graduate LLB program, the LexisNexis Prize in Contract Law and the LexisNexis Prize in Constitutional Law.
Professor Holman is a former Assistant Commissioner for Planning in the Health Department of WA and has served on both the policy and research arms of the National Health and Medical Research Council, as well as leading numerous high-level reviews for the NHMRC, the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He was recently appointed to the international panel for review of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and was awarded Permanent Guest Professor status at the School of Medicine at Zhejiang University in the People's Republic of China.
Professor Holman, his research coworkers and students have published extensively in health services research, health promotion program evaluation, and the prevention and treatment of major diseases. Present research interests focus on the utilisation and outcomes of health care, particularly applications of data linkage and spatial analysis. Professor Holman's published works number around 400 and competitive grant earnings exceed $35 million, including several NHMRC program and enabling grants and an extended five-year project grant ranked in category 7, the highest grading of scientific merit assigned by NHMRC ranking procedures. He has made significant contributions to population health research training in Australia, teaching courses by invitation in locations around the nation and having supervised over 30 graduate research students and post-doctoral fellows. Professor Holman is noted for having the highest Socrates score of any professor at UWA; Socrates being the system used by UWA to assess research performance.
Professor Holman's record of community service is extensive. He is, for example, immediate past-president of the Cancer Council of WA, chair of the WA Review of the Mental Health Act, and chair of the Expert Medical Advisory Panel to Health + Medicine. Professor Holman has received the Centenary Medal of Australia for his voluntary services to the health system. In 2006. Professor Holman was awarded Australia's highest honour for lifetime achievement in his field, the Sydney Sax Public Health Medal.