Major projects
Long-running and impactful projects in health economics, delivered in collaboration with various institutions, researchers, and funding agencies.
These projects closely align with our research themes.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) wellbeing index
Developing a preference-based wellbeing index to facilitate resource prioritisation in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Evidence synthesis to inform the optimal use of immunoglobulin (the VALUE-Ig study)
Improving the evidence base to inform the cost-effective use of immunoglobulin in various patient cohorts.
Unintended impacts of policy for adaptive policy management
Advancing knowledge of the intended and unintended consequences of policy on health and wellbeing.
Economic causes and consequences of child maltreatment
Examining large Australian administrative databases that track children’s health, education, and welfare receipt over time.
Children’s cognitive development and health
What is it that makes some children succeed, while others from similar backgrounds fall behind?
Dynamics of loneliness and social isolation
Producing robust, policy-relevant insights to inform strategies that mitigate the societal burden of social disconnection.
Economic stress, skills and life outcomes
Identifying the role of economic stress in non-cognitive skill development and life outcomes.
Gambling opportunities and related harms
Quantifying the effect of increasing the proximity and density of gaming venues on gambling preferences and consequences.
Insecure work and the mental health of workers and their families
Providing policy-relevant evidence on how insecure work and job insecurity influence the mental health and wellbeing of workers.
Microeconometric analysis of socioeconomic inequity in mental healthcare
Providing the economic evidence base required to ensure important system changes are appropriately targeted and cost-effective.
Fire to flourish
Developing an inclusive, participatory, and evidence-based model for strengthening resilience across social, built, natural, institutional, and economic domains.
Maximising impacts of aid for health by incorporating local priorities
Working with international collaborators to increase the effectiveness of Australia’s health aid program in the Asia-Pacific region.
Revitalising informal settlements and their environments
Providing evidence that a localised, water-sensitive approach to revitalising informal settlements can deliver sustainable, cost-effective health and environmental improvements.
The financial cost of forced labour
Re-estimating the illegal profits made from the use of forced labour exploitation.
Artificial Intelligence in Health
Examining how AI is changing healthcare, and the values of data scientists, health professionals, and the public.
Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials
Designing the evaluation framework, carrying out the analyses, and interpreting the findings, through to preparing detailed reports.
Activating pharmacists to reduce medication related problems: The ACTMed stepped wedge randomised controlled trial
Improving medication safety by automating issue detection, co-designing interventions, and reducing hospitalisations, focusing on equitable care for Indigenous Australians.
Disability and health
Identifying cost-effective policies that improve the health of people with disabilities in Australia.
Epidemiological modelling to deliver better care for Australian patients with myeloma (EpiMap Myeloma)
Developing and validating a novel patient-level simulation model to estimate patients in Australia with multiple myeloma.
Health technology assessments for government
Providing advice, formal commentaries, and reports on the costs and benefits of new health technologies and services.
Mental health modelling
Developing an analytical simulation model capable of predicting the current and future impact of COVID-19.
Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)
Health-related multi-attribute utility quality of life instruments for use in economic evaluation and broader health studies.
Multi Instrument Comparison (MIC) study
Learn about the MIC study, including the project scope, questionnaires used, and find brochures and papers on the study.