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Deakin Health Economics would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and meet. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and Elders from other communities.
Annual Report 2020
Director’s Report 3
Executive Leadership Team 4
Introduction from the Institute for Health Transformation 5
Strategy Map 6
Deakin Health Economics 2020 at a glance 8
Research Streams
Mental Health
Disability
Ageing and Dementia
Cardiovascular Disease
Obesity
Cancer
Chronic Disease Management and Hospital Care
Maternal and Child Health
Oral Health
Health Technology Assessment
Health System Financing and Sustainability
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Our Teaching 16
Our Activity 18
Research Grants, Tenders and Consultancies 22
Research Outputs 24
2020 Deakin Health Economics Staff 29
Contact Us 30
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It goes without saying that 2020, the year of COVID-19, was a year of great upheaval locally, nationally and internationally. The year presented the Deakin Health Economics (DHE) team, just like everyone else, with unprecedented challenges, but also the opportunity to come together and deliver an amazing body of work that has at its heart our unwavering desire to ensure our Australian health system is as efficient and effective as it can be. We ended up having a very strong year in terms of our research output. A year that taught us a lot about what it means to work with a great group of colleagues and collaborators!
Welcome to the inaugural annual report series for DHE! The outputs and impact of our work in 2020, detailed within this annual report, are a testament to the dedication and unwavering commitment of our team of 38 staff - one of the largest academic health economics teams in Australia.
DHE is one of the founding research groups that comprise the Institute for Health Transformation. We are located within the School of Health and Social Development and apart from a thriving research program we are also responsible for delivering a Master’s as well as a Graduate Certificate of Health Economics. DHE structures our work around streams of research that are dynamic and adaptable, and aim to inform contemporary health system issues. Our current 11 streams include mental health, obesity, cardiovascular disease, health technology assessment, maternal and child health, cancer, chronic disease management and hospital care, oral health, health system financing and sustainability, disability and ageing, and dementia.
In terms of some notable staff movements, Associate Professor Martin Hensher joined the DHE leadership team as co-Deputy Director with Alfred Deakin Professor Marj Moodie. To our great advantage Martin has brought with him a breadth of operational, government, management and health economics experience and leadership abilities. Our very own Professor Jenny Watts, who also leads DHE’s chronic disease management and hospital care stream, was appointed as Deakin University’s Head of the School of Health and Social Development. Jenny’s exceptional contribution to DHE’s teaching and research over the past 8 years is highly valued and this promotion is well deserved.
We have also endeavoured to increase the profile of DHE via a new website, an inaugural newsletter that will be published bi-annually and a new icon that we feel best represents our mission and how we work. An interlocking puzzle highlights our ability to work collaboratively and seamlessly both with each other as well as our numerous partners. It speaks to closing gaps in evidence with rigour and making this evidence available to assist policy decisions.
In conclusion, I hope you enjoy this inaugural DHE annual report – we are proud of what we have managed to achieve and contribute in the most unusual and challenging of years that was 2020!
Prof Cathy Mihalopoulos
Chair and Head, Deakin Health Economics
The outputs across all our streams have been impressive with DHE on grants/tenders and consultancies worth $25.2 million, 85 peer reviewed journal articles and a growing pool of PhD scholars. At any one time there are usually more than 120 active research projects happening! Of particular note, Drs Nikki McCaffrey, Anita Lal and Vicki Brown all won individual fellowships that will help them progress their vibrant research programs in the economics of cancer and obesity. Our research staff also won awards such as the Research Team Award from the Society for Mental Health Research Awards for Health Services, plus a number of others. We had three academics from the University of Bayreuth visit us in February - just as the potential global impacts of COVID-19 were starting to be realised. This visit has resulted in a wonderful collaboration, – but more about that in our 2021 annual report.
COVID-19 has really brought attention to many of the issues that health economists have long considered and debated – including how to value the costs and consequences of difficult decisions in health care and how to trade off impacts both within and across different segments of our economy. Members of DHE engaged in various high-level COVID-19 related commentaries and presentations where such important topics were discussed and debated. We highlighted that global policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in collateral impact on physical and mental health, social connectedness and the economy. This has raised the profile of health economists and their importance in responding to the policy discourse through a public health disaster.
Director’s Report
I am very pleased to present the Deakin Health Economics inaugural Annual Report for 2020.
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The Deakin Health Economics executive leadership team collaborates with Deakin’s School of Health and Social Development, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, national and international organisations, government and non-government organisations and early and mid-career researchers to deliver best practice research and teaching.
Executive leadership team
Professor Cathy MihalopoulosDirector and Mental health research stream leader
Alfred Deakin Professor Marj MoodieCo-Deputy Director and Cardiovascular disease and Obesity research streams leader
Associate Professor Martin HensherCo-Deputy Director and Health system financing and sustainability stream leader
Professor Jennifer WattsChronic disease management and hospital care research stream leader
Associate Professor Lisa GoldCourse Director, Postgraduate Health Economics and Maternal and child health research stream leader
Associate Professor Silva ZavarsekHealth technology assessment research stream leader
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Introduction from the Institute for Health Transformation
Message from the IHT DirectorIt is a great pleasure to release Deakin Health Economics’ inaugural Annual Report for 2020.
As has been said many times, 2020 was an ‘unprecedented’ year in many respects. Deakin Health Economics has continued to provide high quality research, addressing many of the complex health challenges we face today with robust economic and policy outcomes.
In so doing they have demonstrated their significant role in the Australian landscape. They also continue to provide a strong core for the Institute for Health Transformation, working across our membership and with a wide range of national partners.
With 85 original research publications, research income of over $5M, over 120 active projects, and nine recognition awards and prizes in 2020, the members and partners of Deakin Health Economics, within the Institute for Health Transformation, are to be congratulated for their ongoing focus on high quality partnership research with impact.
2020 saw a significant increase in media engagement with the members of Deakin Health Economics demonstrating the timeliness and relevance of their work.
It has been great to see new leaders emerge across Deakin Health Economics in 2020, developing new programs of work to address health challenges including health system financing and sustainability, cancer prevention and management, and ageing and dementia.
These emerging programs complement their strong continuing performance in areas including obesity prevention, mental health, cardiovascular disease, maternal and child health, health technology assessment, disability, chronic disease management and hospital care and oral health.
Finally, congratulations to Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos and the Deakin Health Economics leadership team. They have worked hard to provide a supportive and welcoming environment for their staff, which has been both critical and welcome during the year that was 2020.
I look forward to seeing Deakin Health Economics and its important research programs continue to flourish throughout 2021.
About the IHTThe Institute for Health Transformation (IHT) was established in 2018 to drive translational research in health systems that supports evidence-informed policy and practice change leading to improved patient experience, population health and health system sustainability.
IHT brings together the expertise of more than 200 researchers in determinants of health, health economics, obesity prevention, and quality and patient safety to address the key challenges facing our health systems. IHT aims to activate healthy populations and communities, innovate health service delivery and design, empower consumers as advocates for health system change, and drive equity and value in health and care.
Deakin Health Economics is one of the four domains of IHT’s collaborative model, which aims to enable multidisciplinary research. The Institute’s partnerships with health services, government, community and industry allows IHT to translate that research into real impact and deliver solutions that will strengthen our health systems and contribute to the health and wellbeing of all, now and in the future.
IHT is committed to addressing today’s most complex and compelling health challenges. We consider these the most important for the future of health systems not only in this country, but globally:
• Adapting to the changing profile of Australia’s health needs
• Capitalising on the rapid digitalisation of health
• Supporting better integration of complex and fragmented service systems
• Driving systemic improvements in the safety and quality of health service delivery
• Reducing persistent health inequity
• Improving sustainability of health systems
• Advancing the case for prevention across the life course
These challenges reflect the broad scope of experience and expertise within our Institute and sharpen our focus on delivering impact and solutions that contribute to the health and wellbeing of all Australians, now and in the future.
Professor Anna PeetersDirector, Institute for Health Transformation
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Strategy map Strategy map
About us Deakin Health Economics is one of Australia’s largest teams of health economists. Our research focuses on the efficient allocation of health sector and non-health sector resources to achieve policy objectives and inform health service design and implementation.
Our expertise > design and implementation of economic evaluation alongside trials
> economic modelling ranging from cohort to microsimulation models
> systematic and critical appraisal of the literature
> large scale priority setting projects
> cost of illness and disease burden studies
> methodological research around cost and outcome measurement for economic evaluation
> evaluation of submissions for pharmaceuticals and medical services seeking funding on the Pharmaceutical Benefits
Scheme or the Medicare Benefits Schedule.
Our teaching PhD students
Deakin Health Economics offers a broad and exciting PhD supervision program that can be tailored to individual student needs through the Faculty of Health’s PhD Xtra program.
Master of Health Economics
Deakin’s Master of Health Economics gives graduates from a range of areas – from nursing and pharmacy to business administration and health management and beyond – a strong theoretical foundation, plus analytical and quantitative skills to understand the complexities of health care financing.
Graduate Certificate of Health Economics
Deakin’s Graduate Certificate of Health Economics provides a foundation in health economics to graduates from a range of disciplines, such as nursing and pharmacy, business administration, health management and beyond.
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Ageing and dementia Cancer Cardiovascular disease
Chronic disease management and hospital care
Disability Health system financing and sustainability
Health technology assessment
Maternal and child health Mental health
Obesity Oral health
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Research streams
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Deakin Health Economics 2020 at a glance
Total value of grants where DHE was a partner
Active research projects
Published journal articles
Book chapters
DHE research income $1.9m: Cat 1 grants (n=15)
$3.4m: Cat 2-4 grants (n=30)
Research Streams
Staff
Reports
Research fellowships
11
$25.2m
>120
85
3 3
7
38
$5.3m
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HTA contributions
DHE-led PhDs
Awards and prizes
Visiting academics and speakers
Master of Health Economics and Graduate Certificate students
PhD awarded
Media engagements
Postgraduate units chaired
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
Medical Services Advisory Committee
Post Market Review
Masters and Graduate Certificates completed
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Our 11 research streams are funded via a wide range of sources including the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF), the Australian Research Council, government bodies, and a variety of non-government organisations.
Our research includes grants that we lead, as well as grants where we lead aspects of the research such as the economic evaluation of interventions being evaluated for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in various clinical or community-based trials and studies.
Mental Health It was a productive year for the Mental Health Economics stream despite the disruption caused by the global pandemic. The stream contributed 28 peer reviewed publications and a report to the Commonwealth Department of Health on the clinical and economic outcomes from the Primary Health Network Mental Health Reform Lead Site Project of the Link-me intervention.
Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos led a successful NHMRC Ideas Grant to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent high body mass index and eating disorders in Australia. The project brings together modelling expertise across the obesity and mental health streams within Deakin Health Economics. Dr Mary Lou Chatterton and Professor Mihalopoulos were chief investigators on additional Category 1 funding secured through four MRFF projects and three NHMRC Partnership Grants in collaboration with research teams from Deakin, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Melbourne.
The stream was also successful in obtaining funding for projects through Deakin’s Faculty of Health, School of Health and Social Development, DHE and IHT. Dr Andrew Tan’s research project explores healthcare and productivity costs of children with mental health diagnoses. Dr Long Le’s funded project evaluates mental health services available under the Better Access program and Dr Mary Lou Chatterton’s project will estimate the cost and quality of life impacts of mental health diagnoses in adults.
Dr Yong Yi Lee was the lead health economist contributing to the first mental health investment case, coordinated by the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. This important work involved engagement with a wide range of country-level mental health stakeholders to develop an economic rationale for increasing mental health funding as a means of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the Philippines.
The year was capped off with a team award for impactful research from the Society for Mental Health Research to Drs Long Le, Yong Yi Lee, Lidia Engel, Anita Lal, Jess Bucholc and Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos for their return on investment evaluations of 10 mental health interventions.
Introduction
During 2020 at any one time, DHE had more than 120 active research projects across a range of research streams.
Research streams
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Disability The Disability stream was involved in several major research projects in 2020, including an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (CRE).
The Australian Centre for Health, Independence, Economic Participation and Value Enhanced care for adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy (APP1171758): This major project - called ‘CP-Achieve’ - involves the successful refunding of our initial CRE and provides an important foundation for our collaborative research program with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Cerebral Palsy (CP). In this new CRE we have moved the focus from infants and children to adolescents and young people and their transition to adulthood. Emeritus Professor Rob Carter is CIC on this CRE, while Utsana Tonmukayakul has the important role of Project Health Economist.
Accessible housing for elderly Australians and those with disabilities: Emeritus Professor Rob Carter and Associate Professor Andrew Dalton collaborated with the Melbourne Disability Institute and the Summer Foundation to respond to a Regulation Impact Statement (RIS) released by the Australian Building Construction Board.
Ageing and Dementia The year 2020 marks one of the most challenging years of our lifetime. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented difficulties and disproportionate threat onto older adults’ lives, relationships and well-being.
Their economic assessments (‘Standards for Accessible Housing’ and ‘Accessible Housing – The Way Forward’) established the economic credentials of the case for improved accessibility standards for persons in wheelchairs and more generally the elderly and persons with disabilities. Their work was widely utilised in the subsequent RIS process. This was an important factor in a majority of Housing Ministers subsequently agreeing to include minimum accessibility provisions for residential housing and apartments in the National Construction Code 2022, based on the Liveable Housing Design Guidelines silver standards. Further details are available here.
As part of her PhD on developing preference-based quality of life measures in children with cerebral palsy, Utsana Tonmukayakul conducted Rasch analysis of the Caregivers Priorities & Child Health Index of Life to identify key attributes for further use in health state valuation. Rasch analysis is a quantitative approach that considers the difficulty of the questions and ability of the respondents to answer the questions simultaneously.
Maintaining good health and quality of life has never been more important, especially for our most vulnerable members of society. The Economics of Ageing and Dementia stream continues to make significant contribution to quality of life research in older adults, including people living with dementia. Published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, our stream leader Dr Lidia Engel, explored different quality of life measurement tools for people living with dementia, highlighting some significant shortcomings of existing measures and the need for further validation studies. Collaborating with researchers from the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI), two additional projects have been completed in 2020, exploring the quality of life of older adults at risk of homelessness and the impact of grief on older adults’ health service use and quality of life.
The Disability stream was involved in the design and preparation of a data linkage study with the research team under CP-Achieve. The aims of the study are to investigate patterns of health service utilisation in adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy aged 10-30 years in comparison with their do-able peers.
Recognising that informal carers are an integral part of many health care systems, the Economics of Ageing and Dementia stream also focuses on carers’ wellbeing and quality of life. Two papers, published in Medical Decision Making and Value in Health, assessed the content and psychometric performance of three carer-related quality of life measures, providing important evidence with respect to the choice of outcome measures targeting carers. Supporting the health care needs of carers of older Australians, Dr Lidia Engel also recently co-authored a paper that explored the barriers to health care reported by carers.
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Cardiovascular Disease 2020 started on a great note with the co-leader of the Economics of Cardiovascular Disease Team, Alfred Deakin Professor Marj Moodie being awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on Australia Day. Other successes followed. We were collaborators on two winning MRFF Cardiovascular Round grants.
Obesity Despite the challenges of 2020, the Economics of Obesity team had a successful year, working across 17 projects, predominantly funded by NHMRC, and producing 21 publications. A key publication in 2020 included Priority-setting for obesity prevention—The Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of obesity prevention policies in Australia (ACE-Obesity Policy) study. This paper reports the final results of our 6-year NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) project, the first CRE led by Deakin University by our former director, Emeritus Professor Rob Carter. Of the 16 obesity prevention interventions evaluated, all were cost-effective and 11 were dominant (cost-saving and health promoting in the long term). However, the benefits of these cost-effective interventions will only be realised with sustained government action across various sectors. The ACE-Obesity Policy team was granted the 2020 IHT Research Impact for Mid-Career Researchers Award.
The Midas 2 trial, led by the University of NSW, targets debilitating fatigue after stroke, whilst the EVACUATE trial, led by The University of Melbourne, is a randomised controlled trial of ultra-early, minimally invasive surgery for intracerebral haemorrhage. We were also invited by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute to conduct the economic evaluation for the ground-breaking Australian Pediatric Acute Stroke (PACS) study.
Notable grant successes include Dr Victoria Brown’s Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship which aims to assess the most policy relevant outcomes of obesity prevention in childhood and value these outcomes from the perspective of various stakeholders. Other grant successes include a NHMRC Partnership Grant assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of supporting food companies to implement policies for improving population nutrition and a NHMRC Ideas Grant where we will quantify and value the non-health related benefits of community-based interventions. Both these projects are led by partners in Deakin’s Global Obesity Centre.
The Economics of Obesity team was involved in various invited and plenary presentations at the Public Health Association of Australia, Preventive Health Conference, and for the World Health Organization in Malaysia. New partnerships were forged with Cancer Council Western Australia, whilst relationships with the World Health Organization were extended to include Malaysia together with the Western Pacific Region.
These new projects gave us a portfolio of nine current NHMRC/MRFF projects, in addition to several commissioned projects, and a School of Health and Social Development grant secured by Elise Tan.
Despite the challenges of 2020, the stream had a productive publishing year, authoring 16 journal articles. These included one around SCRAM, a remote cardiac rehabilitation trial, being nominated as a finalist for the best paper awarded by the British Cardiovascular Society Heart journal. Another publication of note was the Code Red report, overturning Australia’s complacency around cholesterol, which we co-authored with the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; the report was launched in Federal Parliament in June 2020. We thank all our collaborators – Melbourne, New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Catholic universities, the Baker, Florey Neurosciences Institute, the Murdoch and Deakin’s Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition.
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Cancer 2020 was a very successful year for the Economics of Cancer stream. Dr Anita Lal and Dr Nikki McCaffrey were awarded Victorian Cancer Agency Fellowships. Dr Lal is evaluating the long-term health outcomes of new programs to increase breast, bowel and cervical screening in disadvantaged populations and their value for money. Dr McCaffrey is exploring the costs and benefits of preoperative smoking cessation interventions, earlier skin cancer detection and support services for Victorians, enabling future evidence-based decisions to improve cancer care for all.
Chronic Disease Management and Hospital Care The Chronic Disease Management and Hospital Care stream’s notable partnerships in 2020 comprised of working with scholars in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe to explore the impact of COVID-19 social distancing measures on livelihood, health and lifestyles through an online survey.
Notable project and publications for our stream in 2020 included: ‘The added burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on HIV affected households in Asia Pacific project’, which is the first systematic review to explore the socio-economic burden of HIV/AIDs and first to explore the added socioeconomic burden of NCDs on HIV/AIDS in any geographical region in the world.
Collaborations continued to grow with non-government organisations (Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Council Australia, Breast Cancer Network Australia, Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia), the Victorian Department of Health, clinicians, health policy makers, service providers, community organisations representatives and consumers. Over $340,000 partner contributions were awarded towards a NHMRC Partnership Project grant application, “Defining and optimising the economic and social return on investment of telephone cancer information and support services for all Australians” and input into the VCA Fellowship projects from bespoke, research translation teams.
Other highlights include Dr Lal’s presentation on inequalities in healthcare utilisation for colorectal cancer patients in South Australia (SA), resulting from collaboration with the Cancer Epidemiology and Population Health Research Group, University of SA (‘Variations in Healthcare’ Workshop, Melbourne Australia) and Dr McCaffrey’s appointment to the Victoria Cancer Registry Strategic Advisory Group.
Results highlighted the significant burden for HIV/AIDS households and the scarcity of evidence on the added burden of both NCDs and HIV/AIDS, hence the need for targeted research in this area. This project has since been published in The Lancet Regional Health.
A range of economic modelling techniques were employed on research topics that included socioeconomic burden of HIV/AIDS and NCDs, and alcohol prevention interventions. Trial based economic evaluations included treatment and prevention intervention across chronic diseases, case-level hospital data analysis and efficiency of service delivery.
Both Dr Julie Abimanyi-Ochom and Professor Jenny Watts were successful as chief investigators on MRFF grants exploring the economic consequences of endometriosis. These research projects are estimating the costs and outcomes of hospitalisation, and the cost effectiveness of an alternative intervention such as yoga compared to routine management which often includes hospital care with or without surgery.
Finally, the Economics of Cancer Collaboration with Cancer Council Victoria continues to thrive with an additional two years’ funding secured in 2020. Dr Sarah White, Director of Quit, CCV stated, “…for the first time we have recurrent funding that’s increased and I really do think that the evaluation work that was undertaken by Dr Nikki McCaffrey was fundamental to getting that increase”.
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Maternal and Child Health In 2020, the economics of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) stream strengthened our relationships with existing partners, such as the Parenting Research Centre, by securing three more competitive category 2-4 grants. This success was complemented by the outstanding delivery of the LINKS Trauma Healing Service Evaluation with our policy partner, the NSW Government.
The MCH stream continues to work innovatively and in partnership with our research and policy colleagues to apply health economics techniques to child and family health services research. For example, our work on outcome measurement and the utilisation of children’s health-related quality of life measures led to two methodological publications in prestigious Q1 Journals (Le et al., 2020; Sweeney et al., 2020). These cutting-edge publications are of particular interest to national and international collaborations in child health, where our staff are active in building links between child health economics researchers across institutions.
Oral Health The year 2020 saw a continued contribution to the field of economic research in Oral Health with a publication output of 11 peer-reviewed publications.
DHE partnered with the Parenting Research Centre to evaluate the costs and benefits of the LINKS Trauma Healing Service. Funded and operated by the NSW Government, LINKS involves multi-disciplinary teams delivering trauma-focused, evidence-based support to children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC) to increase stability of OOHC placements and improve children’s and caregivers’ psychological wellbeing.
Our evaluation demonstrated that LINKS was effective in improving placement stability and psychological wellbeing. The estimated cost to deliver LINKS (27,300 per child or young person) could be outweighed in the long-term by potential cost-savings to government flowing from the benefits that LINKS achieved for placement stability.
The final report of the LINKS evaluation was well-received by our policy partner and, as a result, the team (DHE and Parenting Research Centre) was invited to present the outcomes to the NSW Department of Communities and Justice Executive Board.
Tan Nguyen commenced a PhD to apply the Assessing-Cost Effectiveness (ACE) methodology to Oral Health Interventions (ACE Oral Health). He also contributed to the establishment of the Professional Society of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) VIC-TAS Student Chapter. The student chapter was awarded the Outstanding New Student Chapter Award and the Best Student Chapter Collaboration Award by the ISPOR Student Network. Utsana Tonmukayakul contributed to the development of a dental specific quality of life measurement for economic evaluation derived from the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale.
An interdisciplinary community is led by our team - The Disability and Oral Health Collaboration (DOHC), which was established in 2018 and has a membership across Australia that includes a range of public health professionals, disability service providers, oral health service providers, academics, dental specialists in special needs dentistry and paediatric dentistry, oral health therapists, speech pathologists, and health economists.
The DOHC meets quarterly and is chaired by Professor Hanny Calache. In 2020, the DOHC prepared and published a systematic review on: ‘Education and training interventions that focus on improving oral health for people with intellectual disability’; prepared and put forward a submission on oral health and disability to The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability; supported the development of the ‘Oral Health & Intellectual disability guide for dental practitioners’ in partnership with Inclusion Melbourne; and participated in the Australian Society for Intellectual Disability and Australian Society for Special Care in Dentistry workshop for Oral Health and Intellectual Disability.
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Health Technology Assessment The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) stream within DHE works closely with the Commonwealth Department of Health in evaluating whether new and emerging medical technologies are safe, effective and cost-effective. The HTA stream at DHE had a very busy 2020, despite the lockdowns, conducting a total of 19 evaluations.
The team conducted 11 evaluations for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), one of which was a co-dependent technology (test + drug). We also finalised a Post-Market Review (PMR) for a class of drugs for the PBAC.
Alongside this, we also undertook various pieces of work for the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC).
This included:
• The development of two Patient, Intervention, Comparator and Outcome (PICO) Confirmations.
• Three Department Contracted Assessment Reports (DCARs).
• Two evaluations of Applicant-Developed Assessment Reports (ADARs), one of which was for a co- dependent technology (test + drug).
The year saw us continue to build our expertise in evaluating submissions of various types as well as opportunities to build and advance our systematic review and modelling skills.
Health System Financing and Sustainability The year 2020 has been the first year of operation for the Health Systems Financing and Sustainability stream.
We have delivered and commenced a number of projects in the fields of telehealth and digital health, exploring how technology can be used to make healthcare systems more sustainable, both financially and environmentally. We have built new partnerships with Western Victoria Primary Health Network, Medibank, Western Health, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and with colleagues at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. This year was a particularly successful year for publications on the intersection between healthcare and environmental sustainability and on the impacts of COVID-19, with articles in the British Medical Journal, Social Science and Medicine, Health Economics Policy and Law, Resources Conservation and Recycling, and Health Affairs, amongst other journals.
During 2020, we launched our project developing and piloting a framework to evaluate health apps, funded by the Medibank Better Health Foundation. This project has developed tools for assessing health apps against a variety of domains, which have been used to identify a curated set of the best apps for mental health to be recommended to Medibank members; their use of and views on the value of these apps will form the final stage of this project, which will be completed during 2021.
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Our teaching
Moosa Al Subhi
Attending 2017 International Forum on Universal Health Coverage
Pragati Daniel
2020 Master of Health Economics graduate
Graduate Certificate of Health Economics and Master of Health EconomicsOur teaching program continues to grow, with our highest number of graduates (17) from the Master of Health Economics course joined in 2020 by four graduates from our new Graduate Certificate of Health Economics course.
In 2020, Deakin Health Economics staff taught in 17 postgraduate units, leading 15 of these as Unit Chair. Our staff provide economics and research skills training to all postgraduate students in the School of Health and Social Development, as well as to students from other Deakin Schools and Faculties and other Universities who elect to study one of our postgraduate units.
Our staff again supported students through the capstone research project component of their degree, with 14 staff supervising 3 Honours and 17 Masters projects. These projects have in turn produced multiple publications and several jobs (including at DHE!).
2020 was another successful year for DHE’s teaching program. As always, this success is due to the contributions of all our staff, not only those paid by the University to teach, but the many more who guest-lectured, supervised, marked and generally supported our students to achieve their degrees in 2020. Thank you.
Congratulations are extended to the following students who successfully completed their Graduate Certificate of Health Economics or Master of Health Economics degrees in 2020:
Graduate Certificate of Health Economics
John Cheek, Kai Lam, Kate McBride and Sarah Short.
Master of Health Economics
Moosa Al Subhi, Mary Rose Angeles, Brooke Cowie, Pragati Daniel, Upendra Dhungana, Sreylen Hak, Cathryn Hope, Sam Jacob, Kayla Jordan, Terence Khoo, Yutong Liu, Aditi Malhotra, Shayma Mohammed Selim, Shallu Sharma, Chandani Soni, Nicole Ward and Anna Wong Shee.
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Dr Win Han Oo
DHE-led PhD, based in Myanmar
PhD studentsIn 2020, Deakin Health Economics staff supervised many PhD students at the School of Health and Social Development, other parts of Deakin and at other universities. We are especially proud of the 12 PhD students who were based at DHE in 2020:
Jaithri Ananthapavan, Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage, Mary Lou Chatterton, Natasha Hall, Bridget Kenny, Ha Le, Ishani Majmudar, Phuong (Pam) Nguyen, Tan Nguyen, Dr Win Han Oo, Marufa Sultana and Utsana Tonmukayakul.
The year 2020 saw two new students join this team, two submissions and one graduation.
Dr Win Han Oo
Warm congratulations are extended to Dr Win Han Oo for being awarded his PhD in September 2020. Funded by a Deakin University Burnet Institute scholarship, Dr Win Han Oo undertook his DHE-led PhD whilst primarily based in Myanmar between August 2016 and September 2020.
DHE are pleased to welcome HDR students Tan Nguyen and Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage, who commenced their PhDs in 2020. Tan’s project is titled ‘Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of oral health prevention interventions (ACE Oral Health)’, supervised by: Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos, Professor Hanny Calache and Dr Long Le (all DHE). Shalika’s project is titled ‘The impact of maternal health on child’s health outcomes and health service use during the first 5 years of child life in a disadvantaged environment’, supervised by: Associate Professor Lisa Gold (DHE), Dr Julie Abimanyi-Ochom (DHE), Professor Jenny Watts (DHE) and Dr Anna Price (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute).
Special congratulations to Ha Le for submitting her PhD in December 2020 titled: ‘The economic impact of low language skills from early childhood to adolescence’, supervised by: Associate Professor Lisa Gold (DHE), Professor Jenny Watts (DHE), Associate Professor Emma Sciberras (School of Psychology), Professor Patricia Eadie (University of Melbourne) and Dr Fiona Mensah (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute).
Title
‘A Community-Delivered Integrated Malaria Elimination Model for Myanmar’.
Supervisors
Associate Professor Lisa Gold (DHE), Associate Professor Elizabeth Hoban (School of Health and Social Development) and Professor Freya Fowkes (Burnet Institute).
PhD Description
Developed a public health model that is acceptable to community members and health stakeholders in Myanmar, operational, pragmatic, and more effective than traditional models of malaria control. The model could be replicated or adapted in other Greater Mekong Subregion countries (Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam).
Post PhD
Dr Win Han Oo is currently working as a Senior Program Manager at the Burnet Institute, conducting health system research to control and eliminate infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19 in the Greater Mekong Subregion. An international multilateral donor has funded field-testing of the model developed in his PhD in Myanmar and Lao PDR in 2021.
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Our activity
Media highlightsWhilst much of our research has been impacted by COVID-19 or even re-orientated to include important research questions that have arisen due to COVID-19, the team has also contributed to policy discourse surrounding government and other sector decision making within the context of COVID across a range of platforms including:
• Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos and the mental health economics team published a viewpoint in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry that drew attention to the substantive mental health impacts during COVID, and how the tools of economic evaluation could be used to consider these impacts alongside, rather than separately to, the other health impacts associated with the pandemic. Associate Professor Martin Hensher published a BMJ podcast ‘Economics for Doctors – what you need to know to understand the UBI and a jobs guarantee’, based on his analysis in the British Medical Journal on COVID-19, unemployment, and health: time for deeper solutions?
• Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos presented at the Prevention United webinar series: ‘Flattening the curve of mental ill-health’ in the wake of COVID-19 and was published in an Age article about using QALYs to inform policy debates and decisions on COVID-19: ‘Lockdown is working, but is it excessive?’. Cathy was interviewed for a ‘disruptr’ news article: ‘The lifesaving dollar — how will COVID-19 impact our mental health from a health economics perspective?’ Cathy and Dr Long Le (with Professor Jane Pirkis and Dr Maria Ftanou; University of Melbourne) were published in Croakey Health Media: ‘Better Access expansion timely, but evaluation essential’.
• Other examples of media highlights include: Associate Professor Martin Hensher and colleagues were published in the Institute for Health Transformation’s blog ‘Making sense of COVID-19 health apps’. He was also published in an MJA article: ‘Economic recovery from COVID-19: we must not fall for austerity’, and in The Conversation: ‘The ‘hospital in the home’ revolution has been stalled by COVID-19 – but it’s still a good idea’.
Deakin Health Economics’ research activities also received wide online media coverage including:
• With colleagues from Deakin’s Health, Nature and Sustainability Research Group, Associate Professor Martin Hensher contributed to the Climate and Health Alliance’s report ‘Healthy, Regenerative and Just: Our vision for a better future’ published with an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on the Australian Government for a national response to climate change and its impacts on health and well-being.
• Emeritus Professor Rob Carter discussed the cost-effectiveness of prevention strategies, and Associate Professor Martin Hensher discussed the overuse of healthcare in episodes of the Institute for Health Transformation’s new Healing Health podcast.
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Invited presentationsJaithri Ananthapavan: Public Health Association of Australia, (PHAA) Preventive Health Conference 2020. Economics of Prevention Plenary: ACE-Obesity Policy.
Prof Cathy Mihalopoulos:
• ISPOR’s Australian Chapter webinar: ’Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials, Perspectives from academia, industry and government advisory committee’.
• Leaders in Prevention Summit invited presentation: ‘The economic imperative for prevention.’
Alfred Deakin Professor Marj Moodie: Ministry of Health Malaysia and the WHO Representative Office for Malaysia webinar: ‘The impact of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors on Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product’.
Associate Professor Martin Hensher:
• Barwon Health and Deakin University webinar: ‘Deakin’s Sustainability in Health research’
• ISPOR’s Victoria and Tasmania Student Chapter webinar: ’Choose your destiny in health economics’
Dr Mary Lou Chatterton: ‘Link-me’ economic evaluation results presentation to primary health care networks and Department of Health.
Dr Lidia Engel:
• 4th EuroQol Academy meeting in Prague, Czech Republic; poster presentation
• Inaugural EuroQol Early Career Researcher meeting; poster presentation and paper discussion
• Australian Association of Gerontology conference oral presentation: ‘Estimating the monetary value of providing informal care to people living with dementia accounting for carers’ negative and positive experiences’
Dr Anita Lal: Centre for Health Economics Variations in Healthcare workshop: ‘Equity of health care utilisation of colorectal cancer patients in South Australia’.
Jaithri Ananthapavan, and Paul Crosland; PHAA Preventative Health Economics Workshop.
Research Fellowships Congratulations to the following staff who received Research Fellowships:
Dr Vicki Brown was awarded a 2020 Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship titled ‘Interventions for early childhood obesity prevention: exploring the value of commonly used outcomes to better inform economic evaluation and priority-setting’.
Dr Nikki McCaffrey, Cancer stream leader and Dr Anita Lal were awarded 2020 Victorian Cancer Agency Research Fellowships. Nikki’s Fellowship is titled: ‘Economics of Cancer Care across the Continuum in Victoria.’
Anita’s Fellowship is titled: ‘The equity impacts and cost-effectiveness of targeted programs to increase bowel, breast and cervical cancer screening in disadvantaged groups in Victoria’.
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DHE’s early to mid-career researchers were recognised in the Institute for Health Transformation’s inaugural EMCR Future Leaders Awards for Academic Excellence. Our Research Excellence winners were: Dr Lan Gao; Early Career Researcher, Ha Le (joint winner); PhD Student/1 year Post Doc and Dr Long Le (Highly Commended); Early Career Researcher. Our Research Impact winners were: Jaithri Ananthapavan, Vicki Brown, Pam Nguyen and Anita Lal (and Associate Professor Gary Sacks); Mid Career Researcher ACE-Obesity Policy team.
Dr Long Le, Dr Yong Yi Lee, Dr Lidia Engel, Dr Anita Lal, Jessica Bucholc and Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos for being joint winners at the Society for Mental Health Research 2020 virtual conference Team Awards, in the Impactful Mental Health Research Health category for their presentation titled ‘The economic case for investing in mental health prevention’.
Jaithri Ananthapavan was a member of a team winning the Ballarat Health Services Research Award 2020 for their project titled ‘Identification of actionable health research priorities in the Grampians Region that can be rapidly translated into practice’.
Dr Long Le won the 2020 Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders Early Career Travel Scholarship.
DHE staff member and PhD student Marufa Sultana (primary supervisor Associate Professor Lisa Gold) was awarded the best presentation prize at the 9th Australian Health Economics Doctoral Workshop for her presentation titled ‘Cost-effectiveness of day care versus usual care management of childhood severe pneumonia: an economic evaluation alongside a cluster randomised trial in Bangladesh’.
Sean Docking became our second MHE student to receive an AHHA Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research Scholarship, supported by Dr Vicki Brown.
Awards and prizes
Congratulations to the following DHE staff on winning awards and prizes.
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ACE- Oral Health Project Steering Group
Australian Coalition to End Loneliness Scientific Advisory Board
Australian Health Economics Society Committee
Cancer Council Victoria Economics of Cancer Advisory Group
Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI) Coordination Group
Deakin University Faculty of Health Board
The Disability and Oral Health Collaboration
Ending Loneliness Together Scientific Committee
EuroQol Group
Evaluation of Cancer Outcomes Barwon South Western Registry (ECOBSW) Data Governance Advisory Group
Extending the QALY project Advisory Group
GLOBE Conflict of Interest Committee
GLOBE Executive Committee
Institute for Health Transformation Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Institute for Health Transformation Early and Mid-Career Researchers Committee
Institute for Health Transformation Research Committee
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) ECR development for Mental Health Interest Group
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Economics of Palliative & End-of-Life Care Interest Group
ISPOR (The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research): Australian Regional Chapter
ISPOR: Communication Sub-Committee
ISPOR: Education Sub-Committee PhD students
ISPOR: Media and Commercial Committee
ISPOR: Symposium and Event Planning Sub-Committee
ISPOR: Victoria-Tasmania Student Chapter
MRFF Targeted Healthy System and Community Organisation Research grant assessment/review panel
Mental Health & Prevention journal editorial board
National Headspace Evaluation National Advisory Committee
NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grant assessment/review panel
NHMRC CRE-CP-Achieve Steering Committee
NHMRC CRE-CP Achieve: Team 1 Stream - Improving Physical and Mental Health
NHMRC CRE-CP Achieve: Team 2 Stream – Building Supportive Environments
National Immunoglobulin Advisory Committee
Nourish Network Local Government Food Policy Research Action Team
Pacific Centre for Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases (Pacific C-POND) Reference Group
Palliative Medicine journal Editorial Board
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) Economics Sub-Committee
Pharmacoeconomics open journal Editorial Advisory Board
PREMISE Career Development Support Grant Review Panel 2020
Prevention United Scientific Advisory Board
The QUOKKA Project, Child Health Utility Project, Decision Makers Advisory Committee
Second Child and Adolescent Component of the National Survey of Mental Health
Society for Mental Health Research Executive Committee
Stoma Product Assessment Panel
Upper Limb Splinting Trial for Young Children with cerebral palsy Steering Committee
VicHealth Impact Grant Steering Committee
Victorian Cancer Registry Strategic Advisory Group
Wellbeing Survey Reference Group Society for Mental Health Research Early Career Researchers Committee
Committees and advisory groups
DHE staff and PhD students contributed to the following broader health economics service roles:
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Research grants, tenders and consultancies
Funding for research projects awarded in 2020
Project team Project title Funding scheme
NHMRC
Hegarty K, Tarzia L, C Humphreys E, Murray, Hajeed M, Feder G, Gold L, Chondros P, Tassone S
BETTER MAN Project: Tailored early online intervention for men using intimate partner violence
Ideas Grant
Nichols M, Backholer K, Swinburn B, Brown V, Nguyen T , Economos C
PRECIS: PRecision Evidence for Childhood obesity prevention InterventionS
Ideas Grant
Cotton S, McGorry P, Rickwood D, Hickie I, Yung A, Mihalopoulos C, Parker A, Smith K, Filia K, Gao C
The who, why, what, where and when of primary youth mental health care: The 5W research program
Partnership Grant
Loo C, Martin D, Mitchell P, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Chatterton ML, Galletly C, Hopwood M, Sara G, Mihalopoulos C
Australasian Partnership for Improving Outcomes in Severe Depression
Partnership Grant
Sacks G, Cameron A, Ni Mhurchu C, Neal B, Backholer K, Peeters A , Ananthapavan J
REFORM - Supporting food companies to implement policies for improving population nutrition
Partnership Grant
MRFF
Campbell B, Kleining T, Laidlaw J, Abou-Hamden A, Churilov L, Mocco J, Kellner C, Gao L, Davis S, Moodie M
A randomised controlled trial of ultra-early, minimally invasive surgery for intra-cerebral haemorrhage (EVACUATE)
Cardiovascular Health
Levi C, Bivard A, Parsons M, Donnan G, Khan F, Moodie M, Bajorek B, Butcher K, Markus H, Nilsson M
Reducing debilitating fatigue after stroke to improve quality of life (MIDAS 2)
Clinical Trials Activity - Neurological Disorders Grant
Efron D, Williams K, Freeman J, Elliott E, Cranswick N, Payne J, Davidson A, Prakash C, Lee K, Rice L, Mihalopoulos C
Does cannabidiol reduce severe behavioural problems in youth with intellectual disability? A randomised placebo controlled trial.
Clinical Trials Activity: Rare Cancers, Rare Diseases and Unmet Need Grant
O’Neil A, Jacka F, Lagopoulos J, Yucel M, Speight J, Absetz P, Versace V, Teychenne M, Rosenbaum S, Chatterton ML
Evaluating the effectiveness of lifestyle therapy versus standard psychotherapy for reducing depression in adults with COVID-19 related distress: The CALM trial
COVID-19 Mental Health Research
Evans S, Mikocka-Walus A, Watts J, Esterman A, Skvarc D
A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Yoga, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Education to Improve Quality of Life and Reduce Healthcare Costs in Endometriosis
Endometriosis Research Grant
Grover S, Hiscock H, Bennett CM, Harcourt B, Deans R, Abimanyi-Ochom J
LongSTEPPP - A longitudinal study of teenagers with endometriosis, period and pelvic pain in Australia to identify early risk factors, educational and management strategies
EPCDRI Endometriosis Research Grant
Emery J, Gunn J, Bousman C, Suthers G, Chondros P, Palmer V, Mihalopoulos C, Chen T, Polasek T
The PRESIDE Trial: an RCT of pharmacogenomically-informed prescribing of antidepressants on depression outcomes in patients with major depressive disorder in primary care
Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission - Mental Health Pharmacogenomics
Pirkis J, Patton G, Oliffe J, Reavley N, Mihalopoulos C, LaMontagne T, Rice S, Seidler Z, King K, Vella S
Preventing suicide in boys and men Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission - Suicide Prevention
Daly R, Bennell K, Scott D, Ebeling P, Maier A, Giangregorio L, Hinman R, Watts J, Koorts H, McNaughton S
TeleFFIT - A personalized, telehealth exercise and lifestyle risk factor management program to reduce falls and fracture risk in older adults: A 12-month hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
Preventive and Public Health Research Grant
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Project team Project title Funding scheme
Other funding bodies
McCaffrey N Cost-effectiveness of embedding a smoking cessation model of care into the Victorian health service setting to increase smoking cessation
Cancer Council Victoria
McCaffrey N Economics of Cancer Collaboration Cancer Council Victoria
Chatterton ML, Faller J, Le LKD, Engel L, Williams L, Pasco J
Economic and quality of life burden of mental disorders in women: The Geelong Osteoporosis Study
Deakin Health Economics Grant
Lal A, Tan E, Gao L, Roder D, Buckley L, Gold L Distributional cost- effectiveness of bowel cancer screening in South Australia
Deakin Health Economics Grant
Tran M, Brown V, Ananthapavan J, Le HND, Abimanyi-Ochom J
The relationships between healthcare service use, physical health measures and biomarkers associated with overweight/obesity
Deakin Health Economics Grant
Engel L, McCaffrey N, Le LKD, Anderson K, Mulhern B Measuring quality of life when health fluctuates – exploring the impact of the recall time
Deakin University School of Health and Social Development and Deakin Health Economics Grants
Le LKD Better Access evaluation Deakin University School of Health and Social Development Grant
Tan E, Gao L Predicting the future post-stroke – contributing factors and age differences for readmission
Deakin University School of Health and Social Development Grant
Hensher M Deakin Science and Society Network Interdisciplinary Project Incubator grant (with School of Humanities and Social Sciences), An app for that: COVID-19, contact tracing, public health and public goods
Deakin University Science and Society Network Grant
Belay YB, Engel L, Mihalopoulos C, Mulhern B, Yohannes K
Examining the psychometric properties of a split version of the EQ-5D-5L anxiety/depression dimension in patients with anxiety and/or depression
EuroQol Research Foundation
Engel L, Mulhern B, Whitehurst DGT, Jansse B, Haagsma J An exploratory analysis of the Pain/Discomfort dimension of the EQ-5D-5L in people living with physical and mental health conditions
EuroQol Research Foundation
Feng YS, Engel L, Peasgood T, B Mulhern B, Kohlmann T, Pickard S, Brazier J
Developing Scoring Methods for the 25-item EQALY Instrument
EuroQol Research Foundation
Viney R, Mulhern B, Street D, Norman R, Engel L, Whitehurst D
Combining health and social outcomes using the EQ-5D-5L and the ASCOT – development of a pilot value set
EuroQol Research Foundation
Zavarsek S and DHE Health Technology Assessment team
Inclusion on the Health technology Assessment, Research Support and Other Services Panel
Medical Service Advisory Committee [MSAC] evaluations
Brijnath B, Gerber K, Mihalopoulos C, Engel L Grief in Older People National Ageing Research Institute
Reddy S, Phelps G, Rasa J, Muhammad I, Hensher M, O’Shea M, Berk M
An evaluation of the first two years of implementation of the Australian Mental Health Leaders Fellowship (AMHLF)
National Mental Health Commission
Aas E, Hagen T, Thoresen L, Forma L, McCaffrey N, Engel L, Jordhoy M, Halsteinli V, Michel Y, Thomassen E
Securing high-quality of cAre For cancer patients at their End-of-life: the SAFE-study
Norwegian Cancer Society
Le HND, Parenting Research Centre, Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia
Economic evaluation of an intensive family support program for vulnerable Aboriginal families with complex needs in Western Adelaide.
NSW Ministry of Health
Le HND, Parenting Research Centre, Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia
Economic evaluation of the Focus on New Fathers Project NSW Ministry of Health
Le HND, The University of Melbourne Evaluation of a domestic violence screening program at Emergency Department for women in NSW.
NSW Ministry of Health
Tonmukayakul U Quality in General Practice Trial, knows as EQuIP-GP Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Turner A, Dean O, Kennedy A, Mohebbi M, Gao L Resuming Employment after Stroke: Enhancement through Telecoordination - RESET Rural Expansion
Stroke Foundation Research Grant
Mihalopoulos C, Le LKD ACE - Suicide Prevention The University of Melbourne
Lee YY United for Global Mental Health Report - April 2020 United for Global Mental Health
Hensher M After Hours Telehealth for Residential Aged Care Facilities Project.
Western Victoria Primary Health Network Limited
Lee YY WHO Mental Health Investment Case - Philippines 2020 World Health Organization
Moodie M, Ananthapavan J, Tran M Estimating direct healthcare cost and expenditure for non-communicable diseases in Malaysia
World Health Organization
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Research outputs
85 Publications 7 Research reports 3 Book chapters
Publications1. Allan, S; Bradstreet, S; McLeod, H; Gleeson, J; Farhall, J;
Lambrou, M; Clark, A; Gumley, A; Ainsworth, J; Bucci, S; Lewis, S; Machin, M; Yung, A; AlvarezJiminez, M; Cotton, S; Lederman, R; Birchwood, M; Singh, S; Thompson, A; Briggs, A; Williams, C; French, P; MacLennan, G; Mihalopolous, C; Norrie, J; Schwannauer, M; Reilly, F; Smith, L; Sundram, S (2020), Perspectives of patients, carers and mental health staff on early warning signs of relapse in psychosis: a qualitative investigation, BJPsych Open, Vol. 6, NO. 1, PP. 1-7, Cambridge University Press.
2. Almansour HA; Mekonnen AB; Aloudah NM; Alhawassi TM; McNamara K; Chaar B; Krass I; Saini B (2020), Cardiovascular disease risk screening by pharmacists: a behavior change wheel guided qualitative analysis. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Vol. 16, NO. 2, PP. 149-159, Elsevier.
3. Alzubaidi, H; McNamara, K; Saidawi, W; Hasan, S; Krass, I (2020), Pharmacists’ experiences and views on providing screening services: an international comparison, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Vol. 16, NO. 11, PP. 1558-1568, Elsevier.
4. Ananthapavan, J; Sacks, G; Brown, V; Moodie, M; Nguyen, P; Veerman, L; Mantilla Herrera, A; Lal, A; Peeters, A; Carter, R (2020), Priority-setting for obesity prevention—The Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of obesity prevention policies in Australia (ACE-Obesity Policy) study, PLoS One, Vol. 15, NO. 6, PP. 1-19, PLOS.
5. Azraai, M; Gao, L; Ajani, A (2020), Cost-effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI) compared to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in low- to intermediate-surgical-risk patients, Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, Vol. 21, NO. 9, PP. 1164-1168, Elsevier.
6. Bajorek, B; Gao, L; Lillicrap, T; Bivard, A; Garcia-Esperon, C; Parsons, M; Spratt, N; Holliday, E; Levi, C (2020), Exploring the economic benefits of Modafinil for post-stroke fatigue in Australia: a cost-effectiveness evaluation, Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 29, NO. 11, PP. 1-8, Elsevier.
7. Bell, C; Latu, C; Coriakula, J; Waqa, G; Snowdon, W; Moodie, M (2020), Fruit and vegetable import duty reduction in Fiji to prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases: a case study, Public Health Nutrition, Vol. 23, NO. 1, PP. 181-188, Cambridge University Press.
8. Boland, L; Brosseau, L; Caspar, S; Graham, I; Hutchinson, A; Kothari, A; McNamara, K; McInnes, E; Angel, M; Stacey, D (2020), Reporting health research translation and impact in the curriculum vitae: a survey, Implementation Science Communications, Vol. 1, NO. 20 PP. 1-11, BMC.
9. Brown, V; Tan, E; Hayes, A; Baur, L; Campbell, K; Taylor, R; Byrne, R; Wen, L; Hesketh, K; Moodie, M (2020), Cost comparison of five Australasian obesity prevention interventions for children aged from birth to two years, Pediatric Obesity, Vol. 15, NO. 12, PP. 1-13, Wiley.
10. Brown, V; Tran, H; Blake, M; Laws, R; Moodie, M (2020), A narrative review of economic constructs in commonly used implementation and scale-up theories, frameworks and models, Health Research Policy and Systems, Vol. 18, NO. 1, PP. 1-11, BMC.
11. Brown, V; Williams, J; McGivern, L; Sawyer, S; Orellana, L; Luo, W; Hesketh, K; Wilfley, D; Moodie, M (2020), Protocol for economic evaluation alongside the SHINE (Supporting Healthy Image, Nutrition and Exercise) cluster randomised controlled trial, BMJ, Vol. 10, NO. 8, PP. 1-7, BMJ.
12. Chanen, A; Nicol, K; Betts, J; Bond, G; Mihalopoulos, C; Jackson, H; Thompson, K; Jovev, M; Yuen, H; Chinnery, G; Ring, J; Allott, K; McCutcheon, L; Salmon, A; Killackey, E (2020), INdividual Vocational and Educational Support Trial (INVEST) for young people with borderline personality disorder: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial, Trials, Vol. 21, NO. 1, PP. 1-12, BMC.
13. Chatterton, M; Bayer, J; Engel, L; Rapee, R; Beatson, R; Hiscock, H; Bretherton, L; Wake, M; Mihalopoulos, C (2020), Cost-effectiveness of preventing child internalising problems: Results from the translational trial of Cool Little Kids at school entry, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Vol. 70, PP. 1-9, Elsevier.
14. Chattopadhyay, A; Christian, B; Masood, M; Calache H; Carpenter, L; Gibbs, L, Gussy (2020), Natural history of dental caries: Baseline characteristics of the VicGen birth cohort study. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, Vol. 30, NO. 3, PP. 334-341, Wiley.
15. Chinnasamy, A; Moodie, M (2020), Diabetes related knowledge, attitudes and practice - a survey among oral health professionals in Victoria, Australia, Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dentistry, Vol. 12, PP. 111-121, Dovepress.
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16. Chinnasamy, A; Moodie, M (2020), Prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes in the dental setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis, International Journal of Dentistry, Vol. 2020, PP. 1-10, Hindawi.
17. Christian B; Calache H; Adams, G; Hall M; Dashper, S; Gibbs, L; Gussy M (2020), A methodological study to assess the measurement properties (reliability and validity) of a caries risk assessment tool for young children, Journal of Dentistry, Vol. 95, PP. 1-8, Elsevier.
18. Cotton, S; Rice, S; Moeller-Saxone, K; Magnus, A; Harvey, C; Mihalopoulos, C; Humphreys, C; Murray, L; Halperin, S; McGorry, P; Herrman, H (2020), Sex differences in psychological distress, behavioural and emotional problems, and substance use in young people in out-of-home care, Child & Family Social Work, Vol. 25, NO. 2, PP. 325-336, Wiley.
19. Currow, D; Louw, S; McCloud, P; Fazekas, B; Plummer, J; McDonald, C; Agar, M; Clark, K; McCaffrey, N; Ekström, M (2020), Regular, sustained-release morphine for chronic breathlessness: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, Thorax, Vol. 75, NO. 1, PP. 50-56, BMJ.
20. Dieleman, J; Myles, P; Bulfone, L; Younie, S; van Zaane, B; McGiffin, D; Moodie, M; Gao, L (2020), Cost-effectiveness of routine transoesophageal echocardiography during cardiac surgery: a discrete-event simulation study, British Journal of Anaesthesia, Vol. 124, NO. 2, PP. 136-145, Oxford University Press.
21. Engel, L; Bucholc, J; Mihalopoulos, C; Mulhern, B; Ratcliffe, J; Yates, M; Hanna, L (2020), A qualitative exploration of the content and face validity of preference-based measures within the context of dementia, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol. 18, NO. 1, PP. 1-19, BMC.
22. Engel, L; Rand, S; Hoefman, R; Bucholc, J; Mihalopoulos, C; Muldowney, A; Ugalde, A; McCaffrey, N (2020), Measuring carer outcomes in an economic evaluation: A content comparison of the adult social care outcomes toolkit for carers, carer experience scale, and care-related quality of life using exploratory factor analysis, Medical Decision Making, Vol. 40, NO. 7, PP. 1-12, SAGE Publishing.
23. Ferreira, D; Louw, S; McCloud, P; Fazekas, B; McDonald, C; Agar, M; Clark, K; McCaffrey, N; Ekström, M; Currow, D (2020), Controlled-release oxycodone vs. placebo in the treatment of chronic breathlessness - a multisite randomized placebo controlled trial, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 59, NO. 3, PP. 581-589, Elsevier.
24. Gao, L; Li, S-C; Moodie, M (2020), How does preterm delivery contribute to the increased burden of cardiovascular disease? Quantifying the economic impact of cardiovascular disease in women with a history of preterm delivery, Journal of Women’s Health, Vol. 29, NO. 11, PP. 1392-1400, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
25. Gao, L; Maddison, R; Rawstorn, J; Ball, K; Oldenburg, B; Chow, C; McNaughton, S; Lamb, K; Amerena, J; Nadurata, V; Neil, C; Cameron, S; Moodie, M (2020), Economic evaluation protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial to compare Smartphone Cardiac Rehabilitation, Assisted self-Management (SCRAM) versus usual care cardiac rehabilitation among people with coronary heart disease, BMJ Open, Vol. 10, NO. 8, PP. 1-8, BMJ.
26. Gao, L; Moodie, M; Mitchell, P; Churilov, L; Kleinig, T; Yassi, N; Yan, B; Parsons, M; Donnan, G; Davis, S; Campbell, B (2020), Cost-effectiveness of tenecteplase before thrombectomy for ischemic stroke, Stroke, Vol. 51, NO. 12, PP. 3681-3689, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
27. Gao, L; Tan, E; Moodie, M; Parsons, M; Spratt, N; Levi, C; Butcher, K; Kleinig, T; Yan, B; Chen, C; Lin, L; Choi, P; Bivard, A (2020), Reduced impact of endovascular thrombectomy on disability in real-world practice, relative to randomized controlled trial evidence in Australia, Frontiers in Neurology, Vol. 11, PP. 1-9, Frontiers Media.
28. Gearon, E; Backholer, K; Lal, A; Nusselder, W; Peeters, A (2020), The case for action on socioeconomic differences in overweight and obesity among Australian adults: modelling the disease burden and healthcare costs, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol. 44, NO. 2, PP. 121-128, Wiley.
29. Gumley, A; Bradstreet, S; Ainsworth, J; Allan, S; Alvarez-Jimenez, M; Beattie, L; Bell, I; Birchwood, M; Briggs, A; Bucci, S; Castagnini, E; Clark, A; Cotton, S; Engel, L; French, P; Lederman, R; Lewis, S; Machin, M; MacLennan, G; Matrunola, C; McLeod, H; McMeekin, N; Mihalopoulos, C; Morton, E; Norrie, J; Reilly, F; Schwannauer, M; Singh, S; Smith, L; Sundram, S; Thomson, D; Thompson, A; Whitehill, H; Wilson-Kay, A; Williams, C; Yung, A; Farhall, J; Gleeson, J (2020), Early signs monitoring to prevent relapse in psychosis and promote well-being, engagement, and recovery: Protocol for a feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial harnessing mobile phone technology blended with peer support, JMIR Research Protocols, Vol. 9, NO. 1, PP. 19, JMIR Publications.
30. Gussy, M; Mnatzaganian, G; Dashper, S; Carpenter, L; Calache, H; Mitchell, H; Reynolds, E; Gibbs, L; Hegde, S; Adams, G; Johnson, S; Amezdroz, E; Christian, B (2020), Identifying predictors of early childhood caries among Australian children using sequential modelling: Findings from the VicGen birth cohort study, Journal of Dentistry, Vol. 93, PP. 1-9, Elsevier.
31. Healy, G; Goode, A; Abbott, A; Burzic, J; Clark, B; Dunstan, D; Eakin, E; Frith, M; Gilson, N; Gao, L; Gunning, L; Jetann, J; LaMontagne, A; Lawler, S; Moodie, M; Nguyen, P; Owen, N; Straker, L; Timmins, P; Ulyate, L; Winkler, E (2020), Supporting workers to sit less and move more through the web-based BeUpstanding program: Protocol for a single-arm, repeated measures implementation study, JMIR Research Protocols, Vol. 9, NO. 5, PP. 1-17, JMIR Publications.
32. Hegarty, K; Valpied, J; Taft, A; Brown, S; Gold, L; Gunn, J; O’Doherty, L (2020), Two-year follow up of a cluster randomised controlled trial for women experiencing intimate partner violence: Effect of screening and family doctor-delivered counselling on quality of life, mental and physical health and abuse exposure, BMJ Open, Vol. 10, NO. 12, PP. 1-10, BMJ.
33. Hensher, M (2020), Covid-19, unemployment, and health: time for deeper solutions? BMJ (Clinical research ed.), Vol. 371, P. m3687, BMJ.
34. Hensher, M (2020), Incorporating environmental impacts into the economic evaluation of health care systems: Perspectives from ecological economics, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 154, Elsevier.
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35. Hensher, M (2020), Toward a Sustainable Health System: The Changing Economic Paradigm, HealthcarePapers, Vol. 19, NO. 3, PP. 47-52, Longwoods Publishing.
36. Hensher, M; Canny, B; Zimitat, C; Campbell, J; Palmer, A (2020), Health care, overconsumption and uneconomic growth: a conceptual framework, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 266, PP. 1-11, Elsevier.
37. Hensher, M; Kish, K; Farley, J; Quilley, S; Zywert, K (2020), Open knowledge commons versus privatized gain in a fractured information ecology: lessons from COVID-19 for the future of sustainability, Global Sustainability, Vol. 3, PP. 1-5, Cambridge University Press.
38. Hensher, M; McGain, F (2020), Health care sustainability metrics: building a safer, low-carbon health system, Health Affairs, Vol. 39, NO. 12, PP. 2080-2087, Project Hope.
39. Hensher, M; Zywert, K (2020), Can healthcare adapt to a world of tightening ecological constraints? Challenges on the road to a post-growth future, The BMJ, Vol. 371, BMJ.
40. Hernan, A; Giles, S; Beks, H; McNamara, K; Kloot, K; Binder, M; Versace, V (2020), Patient feedback for safety improvement in primary care: results from a feasibility study, BMJ Open, Vol. 10, NO. 6, PP. 1-11, BMJ.
41. Hesketh, K; Salmon, J; McNaughton, S; Crawford, D; Abbott, G; Cameron, A; Lioret, S; Gold, L; Downing, K; Campbell, K (2020), Long-term outcomes (2 and 3.5 years post-intervention) of the INFANT early childhood intervention to improve health behaviors and reduce obesity: cluster randomised controlled trial follow-up, The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Vol. 17, PP. 1-10, BMC.
42. Huse, O; Ananthapavan, J; Sacks, G; Cameron, A; Zorbas, C; Peeters, A; Moodie, M; Martin, J; Backholer, K (2020), The potential cost-effectiveness of mandatory restrictions on price promotions for sugar-sweetened beverages in Australia, International Journal of Obesity, Vol. 44, NO. 5, PP. 1011-1020, Nature Portfolio.
43. Huse, O; Zorbas, C; Jerebine, A; Kurzeme, A; Blake, M; Ferguson, M; Palermo, C; Peeters, A; Orellana, L; Brimblecombe, J; Moodie, M; Backholer, K (2020), Recreation centre managers’ perceptions of pricing interventions to promote healthy eating, Health Promotion International, Vol. 35, NO. 4, PP. 682-691, Oxford University Press.
44. Kangutkar, T; Watson, J; Calache, H (2020), Education and training interventions that focus on improving oral health related well-being of people with intellectual disability: A review report. Intellectual Disability Australasia, Vol. 41, NO. 2, PP. 24-27, Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability.
45. Killedar, A; Lung, T; Petrou, S; Teixeira-Pinto, A; Tan, E; Hayes, A (2020), Weight status and health-related quality of life during childhood and adolescence: effects of age and socioeconomic position, International Journal of Obesity, Vol. 44, PP. 637-645, Nature Portfolio.
46. King, M; Agar, M; Currow, D; Hardy, J; Fazekas, B; McCaffrey, N (2020), Assessing quality of life in palliative care settings: head-to-head comparison of four patient-reported outcome measures (EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL, FACT-Pal, FACT-Pal-14, FACT-G7), Supportive Care in Cancer, Vol. 28, PP. 141-153, Springer.
47. Lal, A; Peeters, A; Brown, V; Nguyen, P; Tran, H; Nguyen, T; Tonmukayakul, U; Sacks, G; Calache, H; Martin, J; Moodie, M; Ananthapavan, J (2020), The modelled population obesity-related health benefits of reducing consumption of discretionary foods in Australia, Nutrients, Vol. 12, NO. 3, PP. 1-14, MDPI.
48. Lancsar, E; Gu, Y; Gyrd-Hansen, D; Butler, J; Ratcliffe, J; Bulfone, L; Donaldson, C (2020), The relative value of different QALY types, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 70, NO. 70, PP. 1-13, Elsevier.
49. Lange, K; Lycett, K; Ellul, S; Saffery, R; Mensah, F; Carlin, J; Gold, L; Edwards, B; Azzopardi, P; Sawyer, M; Juonala, M; Burgner, D; Wake, M (2020), Cross-sectional metabolic profiles of mental health in population-based cohorts of 11- to 12-year-olds and mid-life adults: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 54, NO. 9, PP. 1-10, SAGE Publishing.
50. Le, HND; Le, LKD; Nguyen, P; Mudiyanselage, S; Eadie, P; Mensah, F; Sciberras, E; Gold, L (2020), Health-related quality of life, service utilization and costs of low language: a systematic review, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Vol. 55, NO. 1, PP. 1-23, WIley.
51. Le, HND; Petersen, S; Mensah, F; Gold, L; Wake, M; Reilly, S (2020), Health-related quality of life in children with low language or congenital hearing loss, as measured by the PedsQL and Health Utility Index Mark 3, Value in Health, Vol. 23, NO. 2, PP. 164-170, Elsevier.
52. Le, LKD; Hay, P; Ananthapavan, J; Lee, YY; Mihalopoulos, C (2020), Assessing the cost-effectiveness of interventions that simultaneously prevent high body mass index and eating disorders, Nutrients, Vol. 12, NO. 8, PP. 2313, MDPI.
53. Lewis, M; Chondros, P; Mihalopoulos, C; Lee, YY; Gunn, J; Harvey, C; Furler, J; Osborn, D; Castle, D; Davidson, S; Jayaram, M; Kenny, A; Nelson, M; Morgan, V; Harrap, S; McKenzie, K; Potiriadis, M; Densley, K; Palmer, V (2020), The assertive cardiac care trial: a randomised controlled trial of a coproduced assertive cardiac care intervention to reduce absolute cardiovascular disease risk in people with severe mental illness in the primary care setting, Contemporary Clinical Trials, Vol. 97, PP. 106143, Elsevier.
54. Livingston, P; Heckel, L; Orellana, L; Ashley, D; Ugalde, A; Botti, M; Pitson, G; Woollett, A; Chambers, S; Parente, P; Chirgwin, J; Mihalopoulos, C; Lavelle, B; Sutton, J; Phipps-Nelson, J; Krishnasamy, M; Simons, K; Heynsbergh, N; Wickramasinghe, N; White, V (2020), Outcomes of a randomized controlled trial assessing a smartphone Application to reduce unmet needs among people diagnosed with CancEr (ACE), Cancer Medicine, Vol. 9, NO. 2, PP. 507-516, John Wiley & Sons.
55. Majmudar, I; Engel, L; Muscara, F; Stevenson, C; McCarthy, M; Anderson, V; Mihalopoulos, C (2020), Exploring health state utility values of parents of children with a serious illness, Quality of Life Research, Vol. 29, PP. 1947-1959, Springer.
56. Martin-Kerry, J; Gussy, M; Gold, L; Calache, H; Boak, R; Smith, M; de Silva, A (2020), Are Australian parents following feeding guidelines that will reduce their child’s risk of dental caries?, Child: Care, Health and Development, Vol. 46, NO. 4, PP. 495-505, Wiley.
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57. McCaffrey, N; Asser, T; Fazekas, B; Muircroft, W; Agar, M; Clark, K; Eckermann, S; Lee, J; Joshi, R; Allcroft, P; Sheehan, C; Currow, D (2020), Health-related quality of life in patients with inoperable malignant bowel obstruction: secondary outcome from a double-blind, parallel, placebo-controlled randomised trial of octreotide, BMC Cancer, Vol. 20, NO. 1, PP. 1-9, BMC.
58. McCaffrey, N; Bucholc, J; Rand, S; Hoefman, R; Ugalde, A; Muldowney, A; Mihalopoulos, C; Engel, L (2020), Head-to-head comparison of the psychometric properties of 3 carer-related preference-based instruments, Value in Health, Vol. 23, NO. 11, PP. 1477-1488, Elsevier.
59. McMaster, C; Cohen, J; Alexander, S; Neal, R; Gow, M; Calleja, E; Signorelli, C; Tan, E; Williams, K; Sim, K; Leong, G; Baur, L (2020), Satisfaction and acceptability of paediatric weight management services amongst parents and carers: A mixed—methods study, Clinical Obesity, Vol. 10, NO. 6, Wiley.
60. McNamara, K; Krass, I; Peterson, G; Alzubaidi, H; Grenfell, R; Freedman, B; Dunbar, J (2020), Implementing screening interventions in community pharmacy to promote interprofessional coordination of primary care - a mixed methods evaluation, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Vol. 16, NO. 2, PP. 160-167, Elsevier.
61. Mihalopoulos, C; Chatterton, M; Engel, L; Le, LKD; Lee, YY (2020), Whither economic evaluation in the case of COVID-19: What can the field of mental health economics contribute within the Australian context?Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 54, NO. 12, PP. 1157-1161, SAGE Publishing.
62. Mihalopoulos, C; Le, LKD; Chatterton, M; Bucholc, J; Holt-Lunstad, J; Lim, M; Engel, L (2020), The economic costs of loneliness: a review of cost-of-illness and economic evaluation studies, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 55, NO. 7, PP. 823-836, Springer.
63. Nguyen, P; Le, LKD; Nguyen, D; Gao, L; Dunstan, D; Moodie, M (2020), The effectiveness of sedentary behaviour interventions on sitting time and screen time in children and adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Vol. 17, PP. 1-11, BMC.
64. Nguyen, T; Tonmukayakul, U; Warren, E; Cartwright, S; Liew, D (2020), A Markov cost-effective analysis of biannual fluoride varnish for preventing dental caries in permanent teeth over a 70-year time horizon, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Vol. 31, NO. 2, PP. 177-183, Wiley.
65. Quach, J; Deery, B; Kern, M; Clinton, J; Gold, L; Orsini, F; Sciberras, E (2020), Can a teacher-led mindfulness intervention for new school entrants improve child outcomes? Protocol for a school cluster randomised controlled trial, BMJ Open, Vol. 10, NO. 5, PP. 1-11, BMJ.
66. Rapee, R; Shaw, T; Hunt, C; Bussey, K; Hudson, J; Mihalopoulos, C; Roberts, C; Fitzpatrick, S; Radom, N; Cordin, T; Epstein, M; Cross, D (2020), Combining whole-school and targeted programs for the reduction of bullying victimization: A randomized, effectiveness trial, Aggressive Behavior, Vol. 46, NO. 3, PP. 193-209, Wiley.
67. Rawstorn, J; Ball, K; Oldenburg, B; Chow, C; McNaughton, S; Lamb, K; Gao, L; Moodie, M; Amerena, J; Nadurata, V; Neil, C; Cameron, S; Maddison, R (2020), Smartphone cardiac rehabilitation, assisted self-management versus usual care: protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial to compare effects and costs among people with coronary heart disease, JMIR Research Protocols, Vol. 9, NO. 1, JMIR Publications.
68. Rethnam V; Bernhardt, J; Dewey, H; Moodie, M; Johns, H; Gao, L; Collier, J; Ellery, F; Churilov, L; AVERT Trial Collaboration Group (2020), Utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale: still too crude to be a truly patient-centric primary outcome measure? International Journal of Stroke, Vol. 15, NO. 3, PP. 268-277, SAGE Publishing.
69. Robinson, E; Nguyen, P; Jiang, H; Livingston, M; Ananthapavan, J; Lal, A; Sacks, G (2020), Increasing the price of alcohol as an obesity prevention measure: The potential cost-effectiveness of introducing a uniform volumetric tax and a minimum floor price on alcohol in Australia, Nutrients, Vol. 12, NO. 3, PP. 1-15, MDPI.
70. Sacks, G; Kwon, J; Ananthapavan, J (2020), The application of an evidence framework for obesity prevention at the population-level, Current Obesity Reports, Vol. 9, PP. 150-158, Springer.
71. Schess, J; DIminic, S; Hielscher, E; Harris, M; Lee, YY; Kealton, J; Whiteford, H (2020), Investment in Australian mental health carer services: how much and does it reflect evidence of effectiveness? Australian Health Review, Vol. 44, NO. 1, PP. 104-113, CSIRO.
72. Sheppard, J; Tucker, K; Davison, W; Stevens, R; Aekplakorn, W; Bosworth, H; Bove, A; Earle, K; Godwin, M; Green, B; Hebert, P; Heneghan, C; Hill, N; Hobbs, F; Kantola, I; Kerry, S; Leiva, A; Magid, D; Mant, J; Margolis, K; Mckinstry, B; Mclaughlin, M; McNamara, K; Omboni, S; Ogedegbe, O; Parati, G; Varis, J; Verberk, W; Wakefield, B; Mcmanus, R (2020), Self-monitoring of Blood Pressure in Patients with Hypertension-Related Multi-morbidity: Systematic review and individual patient data Meta-analysis, American Journal of Hypertension, Vol. 33, NO. 3, PP. 243-251, Oxford Academic.
73. Shields, N; Willis, C; Imms, C; Prendergast, L; Watts, J; Van Dorsselaer, B; McKenzie, G; Bruder, A; Taylor, N (2020), FitSkills: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of a community-based exercise programme to increase participation among young people with disability, BMJ Open, Vol. 10, NO. 7, PP. 1-11, BMJ.
74. Shih, S; Mellerick, A; Akers, G; Whitfield, K; Moodie, M (2020), Economic assessment of a new model of care to support patients with cancer experiencing cancer- and treatment-related toxicities, JCO Oncology Practice, Vol. 16, NO. 9, PP. E884-E892, American Society of Clinical Oncology.
75. Smith, T; Roberts, M; Cho, J-G; Klimkeit, E; Luckett, T; McCaffrey, N; Kirby, A; Wheatley, J (2020), Protocol for a single-blind, randomized, parallel-group study of a nonpharmacological integrated care intervention to reduce the impact of breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Palliative Medicine Reports, Vol. 1, NO. 1, PP. 296-306, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
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76. Subedi, N; Rawstorn, J; Gao, L; Koorts, H; Maddison, R (2020), Implementation of telerehabilitation interventions for the self-management of cardiovascular disease: systematic review, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Vol. 8, NO. 11, PP. 1-17, JMIR Publications.
77. Sweeney, R; Chen, G; Gold, L; Mensah, F; Wake, M (2020), Mapping PedsQLTM scores onto CHU9D utility scores: estimation, validation and a comparison of alternative instrument versions, Quality of Life Research, Vol. 29, NO. 3, PP. 639-653, Springer.
78. Tan, EJ; Taylor, R; Taylor, B; Brown, V; Hayes, A (2020), Cost-effectiveness of a novel sleep intervention in infancy to prevent overweight in childhood, Obesity, Vol. 28, NO. 11, PP. 2201-2208, Wiley.
79. Tonmukayakul, U; Imms, C; Mihalopoulos, C; Reddihough, D; Carter, R; Mulhern, B; Chen, G (2020), Health-related quality of life and upper-limb impairment in children with cerebral palsy: developing a mapping algorithm, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Vol. 62, NO. 7, PP. 854-860, Wiley.
80. Versace, VL; Beks, H; Wesley, H; McNamara, K; Hague, W; Mohan Anjana, R; Mohan, V; Khunti, K; Dunbar, JA (2020), Metformin for preventing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in women with a. previous diagnosis of gestational diabetes: a narrative review, Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, Vol. 38, NO. 6, PP. 366-376, Thieme Medical.
81. Walters, R; Collier, J; Braighi Carvalho, L; Langhorne, P; Katijjahbe, M; Tan, D; Moodie, M; Bernhardt, J; AVERT Trialists’ Collaboration (2020), Exploring post acute rehabilitation service use and outcomes for working age stroke survivors (< 65 years) in Australia, UK and South East Asia: Data from the international AVERT trial, BMJ, Vol. 10, NO. 6, PP. 1-10, BMJ.
82. Whelan, J; Strugnell, C; Allender, S; Korn, A; Brown, A; Orellana, L; Hayward, J; Brown, V; Bell, C; Moodie, M; Peeters, A; Nichols, M (2020), Protocol for the measurement of changes in knowledge and engagement in the stepped wedge cluster randomised trial for childhood obesity prevention in Australia: (Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-communicable Disease (RESPOND)), Trials, Vol. 21, PP. 1-11, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
83. White, S; McCaffrey, N; Scollo, M (2020), Tobacco dependence treatment in Australia - an untapped opportunity for reducing the smoking burden, Public Health Research and Practice, Vol. 30, NO. 3, PP. 1-6, Sax Institute.
84. Wijker, N; Vidmar, S; Grimwood, K; Sly, P; Byrnes, C; Carlin, J; Cooper, P; Robertson, C; Massie, R; Kemner van de Corput, M; Cheney, J; Tiddens, H; Wainwright, C; George, N; Carzino, R; Moodie, M; Armstrong, D; Martin, A; Whitehead, B; Rogers, G; Wark, P (2020), Early markers of cystic fibrosis structural lung disease: Follow-up of the ACFBAL cohort, European Respiratory Journal, Vol. 55, NO. 4, European Respiratory Society.
85. Zhao, X; Kelly, A; Rowland, B; Williams, J; Kremer, P; Mohebbi, M; Carter, R; Abraham, C; Abimanyi-Ochom, J; Toumbourou, J (2020), Intention to drink and alcohol use before 18 years among Australian adolescents: an extended Theory of Planned Behavior, Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 111, PP. 1-7, Elsevier.
Reports1. Carrington M, Cao T, Haregu T, Gao L, Moodie M, Yiallourou
S, Marwick T, CODE RED: Overturning Australia’s cholesterol complacency. Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, May 2020.
2. Gunn J, Fletcher S, Harris M, Spittal M, Palmer V, Chatterton M, Chondros P, Bassilios B, Burgess P, Mihalopoulos C, Pirkis J. Primary Health Network Mental Health Reform Lead Site Project: LINK-ME: Final Report, July 2020.
3. Moodie M, Cost of major non-communicable diseases in the Cook Islands, 2020. Report prepared for World Health Organization, April 2020.
4. Moodie M, Tran H, Ananthapavan J, The impact of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors on Malaysia’s gross domestic product. Prepared for World Health Organization, Malaysia Country Office and Ministry of Health, Malaysia, March 2020.
5. Sacks G, Martino F, Ananthapavan J, Moodie M, Estimated financial impact of eliminating alcohol marketing associated with elite sport in Australia. Report prepared for The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), May 2020.
6. Sartore G, Heward-Belle S, Le HND, Mcvean M, Wade C, Clayton O, Devine B, Micheux A, Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service Case Management Evaluation report, submitted to NSW Department of Communities and Justice, 2020
7. Wade C, Tan L, Avdagic E, Almendingen A, Broomfield G, Mendoza Diaz A, Anderson A, Ciftci S, Bretherton T, Etuk L, Le HND, Evaluation of the LINKS Trauma Healing Service (Report 3). Submitted to the NSW Health, June 2020.
Book Chapters1. Hensher M Chapter 4 “Anthropocene health economics”
in Quilley S and Zywert K (eds) “Health in the Anthropocene”, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2020.
2. Hensher M, Chapter 12 “Human health and ecological economics” in Costanza R, Erickson J, Farley J and Kubiszewski I (eds) “Sustainable wellbeing futures: a research and action agenda for ecological economics.” Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2020.
3. Hensher M, Chapter 14 “A beginner’s guide to avoiding bad policy mistakes in the Anthropocene” in Orr C, Kish K, and Jennings B (eds) “Liberty and the ecological crisis: freedom on a finite planet.” Abingdon, Routledge, December 2019.
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2020 Deakin Health Economics Staff
Professor
Cathy Mihalopoulos Alfred Deakin Professor Marj Moodie Jennifer Watts
Associate Professor
Lisa Gold Martin Hensher Kevin McNamara Silva Zavarsek
Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow
Jaithri Ananthapavan Liliana Bulfone Dr Mary Lou Chatterton Paul Crosland Dr Lan Gao Elena Gospodarevskaya Francis Ip Dr Nikki McCaffrey Sandra Younie
Research Fellow
Dr Julie Abimanyi-Ochom Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage Jessica Bucholc Dr Victoria Brown Oxana Chiotelis Dr Lidia Engel Jan Faller Marnie Firipis Dr Anita Lal Ha Le Dr Long Le Dr Yong Yi Lee Phuong Nguyen Jo Perez Sil-ling Pruis Dr Andrew Tan Elise Tan Marcus Tan Utsana Tonmukayakul Michelle Tran Sithara Wani Arachchige Dona
Executive and Project Officer
Delwyn Hewitt
Honorary staff
Professor
Alfred Deakin Professor Rob Carter Hanny Calache Dominique Cadilhac
Associate Professor
Stephen Crowley Sue Petersen
Senior Research Fellow
Anne Magnus Dr Sophy Shih
Research Fellow
Dr Katy Theodore Tan Nguyen
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