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Centre for Health Economics

Project showcase

Activating pharmacists to reduce medication related problems: The ACTMed stepped wedge randomised controlled trial

The aim of the project is to decrease the number of medication-related problems and hospital admissions in Australia.

Artificial Intelligence in Health
This project focuses on machine learning--a form of Artificial Intelligence (AI)--which can now diagnose and screen for conditions including breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Children’s cognitive development and health
This project aims to understand time investment decisions of children and adolescents.

Developing A Preference-based Wellbeing Index to Facilitate Resource Prioritisation in National Disability Insurance Scheme: The NDIS Wellbeing Index
This project will aim to develop and validate a preference-based wellbeing index that can estimate the benefits and thus the cost-effectiveness of investments for people with disabilities.

Disability and health
This project aims to identify cost-effective policies that improve the health of people with disabilities in Australia.

Dynamics of loneliness and social isolation
This project aims to provide new insights into the socioeconomic dynamics of loneliness and social isolation using advanced econometric modelling techniques.

Economic stress, skills and life outcomes
The project aims to identify the role of economic stress in non-cognitive skill (NCS) development and life outcomes.

Economics of mental wellbeing
Bringing together leading national and international economists who are passionate about undertaking and promoting much-needed mental health research.

Epidemiological modelling to deliver better care for Australian patients with myeloma (EpiMap Myeloma)
This project will develop and validate a novel patient-level simulation model to estimate patients in Australia with multiple myeloma (MM), and their associated quality of life and costs.

Fire To Flourish
This 5 year program brings together the University’s transdisciplinary research capabilities to work with bushfire-affected communities to advance community-led resilience/

Gambling opportunities and related harms
This project aims to quantify the casual effect and associated consequences of increasing the residential proximity and density of gaming venues on gambling preferences.

Health technology assessments for government
The team provides advice, formal commentaries and reports on costs and benefits of new health technologies and services.

Inequalities in health and wellbeing
This project will provide new knowledge on the causes of ill health, and help explain observed inequalities in health.

Insecure Work and the Mental Health of Workers and their Families
Mental illness constitutes a major burden on labour market productivity, with sickness absence, reduced work performance and long-term incapacity due to associated costs.

Maximising impacts of aid for health by incorporating local priorities

This project aims to increase effectiveness of Australia’s health aid program in the Asia-Pacific region by employing advanced health economics methods.

Mental Health Modelling
The Australian Government has engaged a consortium to develop an analytical simulation model capable of predicting the impact of COVID-19 on rates of mental health.

Microeconometric Analysis of Socioeconomic Inequity in Mental Healthcare
Resources for mental healthcare are distributed inequitably in Australia; across households and across neighbourhoods.

Revitalising informal settlements and their environments
RISE investigates the benefits of a localised, water sensitive approach to revitalising informal settlements.

The financial cost of forced labour
This project aims to increase effectiveness of Australia’s health aid program in the Asia-Pacific region by employing advanced health economics methods.

What do Australians really care about?
This project investigates the importance of key life domains at different life stages in determining overall subjective well-being of Australians.

Children’s cognitive development and health
This project aims to understand time investment decisions of children and adolescents.

Economic stress, skills and life outcomes
The project aims to identify the role of economic stress in non-cognitive skill (NCS) development and life outcomes.

Health technology assessments for government
The team provides advice, formal commentaries and reports on costs and benefits of new health technologies and services.

The financial cost of forced labour
This project aims to increase effectiveness of Australia’s health aid program in the Asia-Pacific region by employing advanced health economics methods.

Activating pharmacists to reduce medication related problems: The ACTMed stepped wedge randomised controlled trial

The aim of the project is to decrease the number of medication-related problems and hospital admissions in Australia.

Revitalising informal settlements and their environments
RISE investigates the benefits of a localised, water sensitive approach to revitalising informal settlements.

Developing A Preference-based Wellbeing Index to Facilitate Resource Prioritisation in National Disability Insurance Scheme: The NDIS Wellbeing Index
This project will aim to develop and validate a preference-based wellbeing index that can estimate the benefits and thus the cost-effectiveness of investments for people with disabilities.

Artificial Intelligence in Health
This project focuses on machine learning--a form of Artificial Intelligence (AI)--which can now diagnose and screen for conditions including breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Epidemiological modelling to deliver better care for Australian patients with myeloma (EpiMap Myeloma)
This project will develop and validate a novel patient-level simulation model to estimate patients in Australia with multiple myeloma (MM), and their associated quality of life and costs.

What do Australians really care about?
This project investigates the importance of key life domains at different life stages in determining overall subjective well-being of Australians.

Dynamics of loneliness and social isolation
This project aims to provide new insights into the socioeconomic dynamics of loneliness and social isolation using advanced econometric modelling techniques.

Economics of mental wellbeing
Bringing together leading national and international economists who are passionate about undertaking and promoting much-needed mental health research.

Fire To Flourish
This 5 year program brings together the University’s transdisciplinary research capabilities to work with bushfire-affected communities to advance community-led resilience/

Inequalities in health and wellbeing
This project will provide new knowledge on the causes of ill health, and help explain observed inequalities in health.

Insecure Work and the Mental Health of Workers and their Families
Mental illness constitutes a major burden on labour market productivity, with sickness absence, reduced work performance and long-term incapacity due to associated costs.

Mental Health Modelling
The Australian Government has engaged a consortium to develop an analytical simulation model capable of predicting the impact of COVID-19 on rates of mental health.

Microeconometric Analysis of Socioeconomic Inequity in Mental Healthcare
Resources for mental healthcare are distributed inequitably in Australia; across households and across neighbourhoods.

Gambling opportunities and related harms
This project aims to quantify the casual effect and associated consequences of increasing the residential proximity and density of gaming venues on gambling preferences.

Disability and health
This project aims to identify cost-effective policies that improve the health of people with disabilities in Australia.

Maximising impacts of aid for health by incorporating local priorities

This project aims to increase effectiveness of Australia’s health aid program in the Asia-Pacific region by employing advanced health economics methods.