Prof. Adam Jaffe is an Australian-based health professional. Adam is trained as a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician and has a practice located in Bondi Junction.

He is also interested in bacteria which cause respiratory infections. One such disease is empyema which is a complication of pneumonia where fluid collects in the pleural space. He formed the Australian Research Network in Empyema comprising all 13 major teaching hospitals in Australia and applied molecular techniques to the pleural fluid to look at the bacteria causing this disease. He demonstrated that the majority of the organisms were pneumococcal strains not contained in the vaccine. He anticipate using childhood empyema as a model for assessing the impact of the introduction of the newer pneumococcal vaccines onto the National Immunisation program.