Adam Jaffe is the John Beveridge Professor and head of Paediatrics and Child Health at UNSW, Sydney, and head of the respiratory department at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick. Jaffe has expertise in rare diseases and chairs the Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee of Rare Voices Australia. He contributed to the writing of the National Strategic Action Plan for Rare Diseases and the National Recommendations for Rare Disease Health Care. Jaffe has also been a member of the Rare Diseases International World Health Assembly resolution taskforce and the International Rare Disease Research Consortium n of 1 taskforce. Jaffe established the molecular and integrative precision medicine centre for cystic fibrosis at UNSW Sydney and was the lead investigator for the Luminesce Alliance Cystic Fibrosis Functional Genomics Project.