Health Systems, Services and Policy
Lead
Professor Alex Collie
Our work is concerned with a diverse range of issues that influence the effective, efficient, equitable and ethical delivery of health services. Our broad remit includes understanding and influencing health and social policy that underpin service delivery and implementation science to transform healthcare and related services.
We conduct our research via competitive government grant schemes and in partnership with industry and peak bodies. Our advice and expertise is sought after by industry and government to support creation of robust solutions to complex, real-world problems. Our integration of research, data and advisory capability makes us a unique partner to better understand and address sector challenges.
Unit
Highlights from our completed work include:
- Designing and piloting a new approach to injury claims management for the Queensland workers’ compensation scheme, that has now been rolled out state-wide and benefits tens of thousands of injured workers annually
- Development of an evidence base underpinning Australia’s first National Return to Work Strategy 2020-2030
- A body of work that contributed to the implementation and evaluation of new certificates of capacity (fit notes) in multiple Australian jurisdictions, and to the development and trialling of national clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of work-related mental health conditions
Ongoing major projects include:
- Development of a Learning Health System to harness current opportunities around the power of data to improve healthcare in partnership with clinicians, researchers and our community
- The COMpensation Policy And Return to work Effectiveness (COMPARE) project that seeks to develop and analyse work disability datasets, generating evidence of the impact of policy reform and healthcare delivery on the outcomes of high-risk workers
- The Driving Health Study in partnership with multiple industry stakeholders, which investigates the health status and health challenges faced by Australian truck drivers