Newsletter | Issue 1 | November 2016

Find out about recent media exposure and impact of our work, including in the Age and the Washington Post.

A publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, in collaboration with clinicians from Australia and Norway, revealed the higher rate of treatment failure of nasal high-flow therapy compared to CPAP for primary respiratory support in preterm infants.

The Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge, the only conference devoted to diabetes health economic simulation modelling, was held in Switzerland in September 2016. The Health Economics Unit presented results and plans for future work in the conference. The ‘challenge’ highlighted the need for standardized dataset to allow replicability of studies in current models.

Professor Philip Clarke and Professor Peter McDonald from the Centre for Health Policy are part of a successful ARC Centre of Excellence in population ageing research, which has received $27.25m in national competitive research funding.

A recent publication in the Australian Health Review highlighted the large variation in the use of hospital data linkage in Australia and urges for the need to maximize effective and efficient use of data linkage investments.

A publication in Value for Health on patient reported outcome measurements (PROMS) emphasized the importance of getting the timing right when measuring patient response after treatment.

Dr An Duy Tran has joined the Health Economics Unit as a Senior Research Fellow and will be developing simulation models for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

Registrations for the upcoming courses, held in March 2017, are now open: Introduction to Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health, Designing Economic Evaluation Alongside Clinical Studies and Practical Methods for Health Economic Evaluation.

All five lectures from our Designing Economic Evaluation Alongside Clinical Studies short course have been made available as online resources on our website.

Find out about recent publications from Health Economics Unit staff in a range of top journals.