Child Health Economics Unit
Melbourne Health Economics, Centre for Health Policy
We are a group of health economists focused on research in the application of health economic methods to support and enable children and their families to live long, healthy, and happy lives.
We work collaboratively to produce health economic research that supports health systems to be equitable, efficient, and sustainable in providing best value care for children. We work to build capacity in child health economics to achieve these objectives.
Our People
Professor Kim Dalziel
Dr Li Huang
Dr Xinyang Hua
A/Prof Sandra Nolte
Dr Cate Bailey
Dr Tianxin Pan
Lea Kevin-Tidis
Heather Anderson
Ashwini De Silva
Alex Van Heusden
Renee Jones
Rachel O'Loughlin
Xiuqin Xiong
Our Research Projects
Our research spans four key themes:
Child health outcomes, Economic evaluation in clinical trials, Child health services research, and Quality of life research
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Giving an adult life after Fontan surgery to those with the most severe congenital heart conditions
- Completed
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QUOKKA (Quality of Life in Kids)
- Current Project
- Child health outcomes
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Understanding the Transition Between EuroQol Instruments for Use in Children and Adolescents
- Current Project
- Child health outcomes
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Are There Any Challenges in Valuing Y-5l Arising From the Descriptive System? A Multi-Country Study
- Current Project
- Child health outcomes
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Identifying and describing the priorities of consumers and carers in mental healthcare
- Current Project
- Child health outcomes
- Quality of life research
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Evaluation of Safer Care Victoria's 100,000 Lives Program
- Current Project
- Child health services research
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P-PROM ROCK Study: Co-designing and piloting a generic Paediatric Patient Reported Outcome Measure (P-PROM) intervention for use in Routine Outpatient Care for Kids (ROCK)
- Current Project
- Child health outcomes
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Strengthen the role of health economics in perinatal health to inform priority setting and funding decisions
- Current Project
- Economic evaluation in clinical trials
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Economic evaluation of interventions alongside neonatal clinical trials
- Current Project
- Economic evaluation in clinical trials
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Economic evaluation of interventions alongside clinical trials in children
- Current Project
- Economic evaluation in clinical trials
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Health economics research alongside clinical registries and cohort studies
- Current Project
- Economic evaluation in clinical trials
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Strengthening Care for Children: Metropolitan and Rural Stepped-Wedge Trials
- Current Project
- Child health services research
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Evidence generation for side effect burden item Q168
- Current Project
- Child health outcomes
- Quality of life research
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Graduate Certificate in Health Economics
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Health Economics/Economic Evaluation Stream within the Master of Public Health
We offer specialisation in health economics within the Master of Public Health. The health economics/economic evaluation (HE/EE) stream is for students who want to specialise in health economics and economic evaluation. There is no prior background knowledge in economics required to select this stream.
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