On Wednesday 14 November 2018 the University of Melbourne Health Economics Group (UMHEG) is a cross-faculty network of health economists based primarily at the University of Melbourne.

The Health Economics Unit from the Centre for Health Policy had strong presence both on the organising committee and in the line-up of presenters of the 9th edition of the biennial Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge held recently at the German Diabetes Center (Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum) in Düsseldorf.

Research by Dr An Duy Tran finds a link between some of the most popular heartburn treatments and iron deficiency.

Associate Professor Kim Dalziel, Dr An-Duy Tran, Dr Natalie Carvalho and Ms Michelle Tew recently presented at the 40th Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) conference in Hobart, Tasmania.

A recent article by Dr Natalie Carvalho at the Centre for Health Policy has been published in a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

The Health Economics Unit - Centre for Health Policy is pleased to welcome the recent return of A/Prof Kim Dalziel from her 12-month US Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice.

The Health Economics Unit has recently been appointed by the Department of Health to research and consult on benefit and pricing models for medical devices and prostheses.

A recent article by Dr Natalie Carvalho at the Centre for Health Policy and co-authors has been published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

A recent article by Dr Natalie Carvalho and A/Prof Kim Dalziel at the Centre for Health Policy has been published in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation.

The Centre for Health Policy Visiting Health Economic Scholars Program is now open to applicants.

When Medicare was in early development, the goal was to provide affordable, basic health care to all Australians. But a new study has found Medicare spending is higher for children from high socioeconomic backgrounds than their poorer counterparts.

Ms You Wu, a graduate from the Health Economics Stream, has received a 2017 Dean's Honours Award.

Presenter: Professor Philip Clarke (Director, Centre for Health Policy). This seminar provides a broad overview of the development of economic methods for evaluating public health and medical interventions prior to the 1970s.

Drs Kim Dalziel and Li Huang recently shared pediatric health economic research at the PAS meeting in Toronto attended by over 8000 participants.

The University of Melbourne is hosting a half‐day workshop to highlight how  routinely collected data can be used to address policy‐relevant questions.

Members of the Health Economics Unit, Professor Philip Clarke, Dr An-Duy Tran, Xinyang Hua and Michelle Tew contributed to a recent publication in Value in Health, Computer Modelling of Diabetes and Its Transparency: A Report on the Eight Mount Hood Challenge.

The Centre for Health Policy organised a recent policy forum to re-examine and celebrate the 50th anniversary of a landmark speech by the former Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam.

A recent article by Dr Natalie Carvalho at the Centre for Health Policy and co-authors has been published in Pharmacoeconomics.

The Health Economics Unit has the pleasure to host Pei-Jung (Peggy) Hsu from the Centre for Quality Management in the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH).

Professor Philip Clarke and Dr An Duy Tran delievered lectures at the Public Health International Workshop, Pasteur Institit, Ho Ch Ming, Vietnam

Jay Stiles and Professor Philip Clarke wrote a summer reading list for the nation’s health ministers.

A policy forum recently re-examined and celebrated the 50th anniversary of a landmark speech by the former Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam.

Professor Philip Clarke, Dr An-Duy Tran, Dr Natalie Carvalho, Dr Li Huang, Ms XinYang Hua and Ms Michelle Tew presented at the recent Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) conference held September 21-22 in Sydney, NSW. The annual AHES conference is the largest health economics meeting in Australia, and provides a platform for the presentation and discussion of current research in the application of economics to health and health care systems in Australia and globally.

Revisiting Whitlam's Vision for Health: Economists, Data and Efficiency Forum Friday 6th October, Old Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Over the last five weeks, we have had the pleasure to host Arjun Bhaduri from the University of Birmingham as part of our Visiting Health Economics Scholar Program. Here is what he had to say about this time spent at the Health Economics Unit.

Professor Philip Clarke was recently interviewed on the history of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme as part of the weekly Radio National program, The Money.

A recent article by Xinyang Hua, Dr An Duy Tran and Professor Philip Clarke at the Centre for Health Policy has been published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Dr Natalie Carvalho presented at the recent International Health Economics Association (iHEA) congress held July 8-11 at the Questrom School of Business (Boston University), in Boston, USA.

A recent article published in the American Journal of Cardiology highlighted that patients with single ventricle continue to demand considerable inpatient resources after the staged surgical procedures period, and over 40% of the pediatric hospital costs for single-ventricle patients were estimated to occur after the last planned surgery.

The June issue of the Health Economics Unit letter is now available to read online.

The Health Economics Unit is seeking a Senior Research Fellow or a Principal Research Fellow to join our team. A major focus of this exciting role will be to undertake work as part of the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (MGHA).

A unique Health Policy Forum will be held on 6 October, 2017 at Old Parliament House, Canberra to look at ways economics and data can be used to improve health policy decision making in Australia.

Our Unit had the pleasure to host Dr Braden Te Ao from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) last week who was visiting the Centre for Health Policy at The University of Melbourne on our Visiting Health Economics Scholar Program.

Health Economics Unit is in collaboration with Prof Tony Blakely to offer a new short course Evaluating Public Health Interventions using Economic and Epidemiologic Methods.

Dr Kim Dalziel presented at the recent Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting held May 6-9 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, the largest Pediatric Research meeting in the world.

A recent article in The Conversation highlights the need for Australia to use health data more broadly and effectively.

Fifty years after we passed a constitutional referendum to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Census, data limitations mean they are still not counted in many health statistics.

A recent article published in the International Journal of Cardiology highlighted that non-cardiac inpatient admissions for patients born with single ventricle are common and have substantial resource implications.

The Health Economics Unit of the University of Melbourne was appointed by the Department of Health to research and consult on benefit and pricing models for medical devices and prostheses.

The Health Economics Unit is recruiting a Research Assistant/Research Fellow to join their team.

The former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam noted in 1967 that one of the problems in discussing health policy in Australia is the lack of reliable official information.

The March issue of the Health Economics Unit letter is now available to read online.

A study published today in the journal PloS Medicine has found that implementing taxes and subsidies could improve diet and population health in Australia.

About this time last year, Australia’s National Health Performance Authority (NHPA) decided not to release data on death rates across Australia’s hospitals.

A study by researchers from the Centre for Health Policy has been referred to by media outlets around the world.