Peter McNair (AUS), M.P.H.

(Australia)
Associate Director and Clinical Epidemiologist
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
Visiting Fellow
Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco

Peter McNair

Harkness Project Title: Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems to Improve Patient Safety

Mentors: Andy Bindman, M.D., and Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.

Placement: University of California, San Francisco

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Peter McNair, M.P.H., a 2007–08 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is senior policy analyst in the Funding Policy Unit in the Australian Department of Human Services, having previously worked in the Metropolitan Health Service Performance Management and Clinical Information Units. His work focuses on the development of funding and service planning policy and the implementation of innovative policy solutions to improve health care quality. In addition to reports published for the Victorian Department of Human Services, McNair has published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine and Australian Health Review. McNair earned a master's of health science from Latrobe University, a master's of public health in clinical epidemiology from Monash University, and a bachelor's of nursing from Phillip Institute of Technology.

Career Activity Since Fellowship

  • Associate Director & Clinical Epidemiologist, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, 2010
  • Visiting Fellow, Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 2010
  • Visiting Fellow, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, 2009
Current Position:

  • Associate Director & Clinical Epidemiologist, Outcomes Information Program, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
  • Visiting Fellow, Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

(Updated July 2011)

E-mail: McNairP@pamfri.org

Harkness-Related Publications

McNair PD, Luft HS, Bindman A. "Medicare's Policy Not to Pay for Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Financial Impact." Health Affairs, September/October 2009; 28(5): 1485-1493.

Buchmueller T and McNair P. “Commentary: Australia model shows public health care option can work.” The Detroit News. 15 July 2009.

McNair PD, Borovnicar DJ, Jackson T, Gillett S. Prospective Payment to Encourage System Wide Quality Improvement. Med Care 2009;47(3):272-8.