Prof Teng Liaw
Professor Teng Liaw
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Emeritus Professor Teng Liaw is an internationally recognised Clinician Scientist & Informatician with elected Foundation Fellowship of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) and Fellowship of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). He is also Foundation Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI), now the Australian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH). He was awarded Life Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) in 2022 and Emeritus Professorship at UNSW Sydney in 2020.
Teng’s expertise is research on ethical digital health, data quality, integrated health systems and health services to achieve the Quintuple Aim, with an emphasis on improving the health of CALD and Indigenous populations. He recently completed a big data analytics project on MedicineInsight, called “Unifying and quality assuring disparate health data silos with a common data model”, where he led a partnership that included Australian Commission of Safety & Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC), SWSLHD, CESPHN and GP Synergy (Funding: NHMRC 2021-24). He has received funding ($15M+)from the NHMRC, ARC, MRFF and various philanthropic & government agencies.
As Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth (AUS-135), Teng has worked closely with WHO and associated global agencies such as UNICEF and I-DAIR, in global health and welfare development of ethical digital health in under-resourced countries. This program of work and publications (H-index 43) is distilled in his latest book “Digital health maturity: quality, interoperability and innovation”, published by Elsevier in Sep 2025 (https://shop.elsevier.com/books/digital-health-maturity-quality-interoperability-and-innovation/liaw/978-0-323-95260-6).
Teng regularly assesses grant proposals submitted to the ARC, NHMRC, MRFF, philanthropic organisations and international research institutes and government agencies in UK, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Taiwan, India, Singapore and Malaysia. He has delivered numerous invited keynotes to government and professional bodies and international conferences in Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Singapore, Australia, UK, USA, and Canada.
Teng chairs the RACGP National Research and Evaluation Ethics Committee (NHMRC-accredited) and is engaged in the ethical monitoring and governance of research and evaluation programs in Australian general practices, Primary Health Networks (PHN), Local Health Districts (LHD) and government & non=government agencies. He currently serves on the board of IAHSI and co-chairs the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Primary Care Informatics Working Group. He was President of ACHI (2005-7). He represented IMIA at the 2018 WHO-UNICEF Global Primary Health Care Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan. He co-led the Asian eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) research stream activities.
Teng is a member of the Senior Advisory Editorial Board of Int J Med Informatics. He was an Associate Editor of Int J Med Informatics and BMJ Health & Care Informatics. He continues to review for journals such as IJMI, JAMIA, Fam Pract, BMJ, BJGP, JANZPH, MJA, AFP, AJPH. He has served on Scientific Committees of conferences organised by health and informatics professional organisations such as the IMIA, AMIA, WONCA and RACGP.