Jon Adams is Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Director of the Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the School of Public Health, UTS. Jon also holds a number of national and international leadership positions/appointments with leading associations such as the PHAA and APHA and he has led work commissioned by a range of Health Ministries/Dept of Health and the World Health Organization amongst others. Professor Adams is the world-leading public health and health services researcher focused upon self-care, informal health care and traditional, complementary, integrative and indigenous medicine use and practice. Jon was recently identified as the #1 Australian researcher in traditional and complementary medicine (Australian Scientific Report 2020) and he was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship (2019-2020). Jon is one of only a select few Australian academics to have held 3 consecutive competitive Government Research Fellowships (2007-2019) including an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship and an ARC Professorial Future Fellowship.