Chief Executive, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation

Dr Jean-Frédéric Levesque is the Chief Executive of the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation as Chief Executive since 2017. He was previously Chief Executive of the Bureau of Health Information between 2013 and 2017. Jean-Frédéric brings leadership in healthcare system analysis and improvement, combining experience in clinical practice in refugee health and tropical medicine, in clinical governance and in academic research.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales. He has a Medical Degree, a Masters in Community Health and a Doctorate in Public Health from the Université de Montréal, Canada.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. As part of his research portfolio, his research and theory on access to health care has been critical in informing both research and policy and has been cited by more than 1,000 other authors and numerous policy documents. He also has made a major contribution with his research on large longitudinal cohorts linked to routinely collected data and health service surveys.