Dr Peter Howley, formerly a Professor of Statistics at the University of Newcastle until 2022, has been actively involved in collaborative healthcare research since the mid-1990s. His contributions span the design, analysis, and reporting of healthcare studies, from individual Advanced Training Research Projects to large-scale clinical trials.

Dr Howley’s expertise lies in healthcare systems evaluation and improvement. He specialises in designing, conducting and reporting public health and clinical strategies to advance healthcare management locally, nationally, and internationally.

His work has informed policy and driven improvements through comprehensive strategies, including integrating national clinical indicator and healthcare accreditation systems, enhancing methods for analysing and using clinical data, and innovative healthcare practices.

Dr Howley has collaborated across health, government, education, and industry sectors to improve systems and outcomes including with Taipei Medical University/Taiwan Health to improve health systems, and the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards on national clinical indicator reporting. He has collaborated with Macquarie University on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) research, AMA (NSW and Queensland), interstate healthcare organisations as well as with Hunter New England Health and HMRI on a variety of projects.

In addition, Dr Howley facilitates healthcare systems improvement and workforce upskilling. PHe has led/co-led over $3 million in successful grants and has an extensive publication record, garnering over 1,100 citations (h-index: 19, i10-index: 28).