Tim Stokes is the Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice at the Department of Primary Care, Otago School of Medicine, based at the Dunedin campus, New Zealand.He is an academic general practitioner with a particular interest in health care delivery and implementation research, using a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. His particular interests are in rural health services and health systems, evaluating complex health system interventions, and new ways of delivering health services for acute and chronic clinical conditions in primary care and across the primary/community – secondary care interface He was a member of NZ’s Pharmaceutical Management Agency (PHARMAC) Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Group (PTAC) from 2016 to 2022. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Primary Health Care, and Past President, Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC)He was previously Senior Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Birmingham 2013–2014; Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leicester and Leeds 2006–2013, and Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Leicester, UK 1997–2006.