Eddie Cliff is an Australian haematology registrar with a passion for research (particularly in lymphoid malignancies), public health & health policy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and music. Eddie is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under Professor Aaron Kesselheim, where he researches questions at the intersection of haematology, oncology and health policy, such as clinical trial design, and pharmaceutical and regulatory policy. He is currently an FDA-AACR Oncology Education Fellow. He recently graduated from the Master of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, concentrating in health policy, on a Fulbright Scholarship. An aspiring clinical investigator, Eddie completed his Bachelor of Medical Science with First Class Honours as a visiting student with Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft at the University of Oxford, where he researched the physiology of neonatal diabetes.
In 2016, he co-founded and co-convened both Life as a Clinician Scientist and Monash Future Thinkers, an organisation focusing on Australia's long-term future, the challenges we will face, and how students, young people and leaders of the future might best engage and innovate to solve these challenges. Prior to that, Eddie was on the National Executive of the Australian Medical Students' Association as its Engagement and Promotions Officer, where he oversaw campaigns including the AMSA Mental Health Campaign and Vampire Cup blood donations campaign, and worked on advocacy around the proposed GP copayment and university fee deregulation, and managed AMSA's engagement with its 17,000 medical student members.
Eddie is a passionate writer, and his writing has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, and the Sydney Morning Herald. He co-hosts the podcast Blood Cancer Talks. He co-founded the Australian Medical Students' Orchestra and was co-chair of the Monash Medical Orchestra, and remains an active oboist and percussionist in numerous orchestras including Corpus Medicorum, the Melbourne doctors' orchestra, with whom he has toured to Russia, Japan and Europe.
He completed his basic physician training (internal medicine residency) in 2021 through the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and commenced haematology advanced training at Austin Health in 2021.
