Dr Adam Hannah

Adam is a public policy scholar and teacher, an expert in health policy and recent recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). He is also the Program Director of the Master of Governance and Public Policy, one of Australia's leading postgraduate qualifications for public servants and policy practitioners.

His research primarily concerns how governments draw on ideas and knowledge and negotiate capacity constraints in the policy process. His recent research has addressed policy responses to health crisis, such vaccine hesitancy and anti-microbial resistance, and the role of ignorance and non-knowledge in generating policy failure, such as regarding the Robodebt scandal. He has published in a range of high-ranking international journals, such as Nature, Public Administration, Policy Sciences and Policy and Society.

Adam's DECRA project is entitled Health workforce crisis: understanding political capacity for policy change, and addresses the political factors that constrain and enable health workforce policymaking in Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand.

Adam is available for PhD supervision and is keen to work with students who are interested in the following topics:

• Major issues in health policy, such as workforce shortages, access issues, vaccine hesitancy.
• The politics of health policymaking.
• The role of ideas and knowledge in health and social/welfare policy.
• Policy capacity challenges.
• Non-knowledge, ignorance and misinformation in public policy.