Prof Stocks is Head of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Adelaide. He is a general practitioner, public health physician and an experienced primary health care researcher who has conducted both qualitative and quantitative studies including RCT’s, cohort and observational studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. His main interests are chronic disease epidemiology and management in general practice, infectious disease surveillance, prevention and quality of life with an emphasis on clinical and health services research. He has been the Director of Australian Sentinel Practice Research Network (ASPREN) since 2004, a Commonwealth funded network of over 300 GPs around Australia that provides data for influenza surveillance and vaccine effectiveness estimates for the Federal Government and WHO.