Cancer Health Services Research Unit
The Cancer Health Services Research Unit studies all relevant aspects of cancer care innovation, cancer health economics and the improvement of cancer care delivery.
Child Health Economics Unit
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.
Demography and Ageing Unit
The Demography and Ageing Unit comprises a group of demographers and social scientists who focus on the implications of ageing for individuals, families, the economy and population more broadly. Our research interests cover both macro (population ageing) and micro (individual ageing) perspectives on ageing, with a view to generating an evidence base to inform better policy and practice.
Disability and Health Unit
Our vision is for better health and wellbeing for people with disability and long term health conditions. We generate evidence to improve the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities by focussing on the social determinants of health.
- Disability, social mobility and the well-being of people with disabilities
- Tackling the high incidence of suicide in working men
- Applying a gender lens to COVID-19 responses in the Australian university sector
- Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH)
- Community attitudes towards disability
- COVID-19 and Disability Support Workers
- COVID-19 Vaccine & Support Workers
- Depression in people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Disability Docos: The stories behind the numbers
- Disability prevalence and inequality measures in Australia
- Economic participation and employment for people with disability
- Exploring the NDIS and Disability Employment Services
- Gender equality and health in young people
- Gender equality: The impact on sleep and health
- Health behaviours and outcomes in people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Hidden in the margins: the lives and trajectories of young carers
- Identifying disability in linked data sets
- IDES: Improving Disability Employment Study
- Managing COVID-19 outbreaks in disability residential settings
- Masculinity in young men
- MatesMonitor: Suicide prevention in the construction industry
- Mental health impacts of school to work transitions
- Migration, work and gender: An exploratory study in Australia
- Modelling employment policies in reducing disability-related mental health inequalities
- MS CRIMS
- Nature and extent of disability violence in Australia
- Policy solutions to improve the mental health of Australians with disability
- Prevention of family violence for women with disability
- Psychosocial disability and employment
- Responding to young people with disability who use violence at home
- Smoking among people with intellectual disability
- Smoking and Multiple Sclerosis
- The DOMINO Dataset
- The Innovative Measurement of Australian Gender (IN)Equality IMAGINE
- The SaMS Study
- Under-utilisation of NDIS Packages
- Violence against people with disability
- Violence prevalence data and disability in Australia
- Who cares? Taking care of the carers
- WIN: Hospital Workforce Interfacing with the NDIS
- YES: Youth Employment Study
Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine Unit
Our research within the Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine Unit (EiGEN) aims to provide health economics evidence to support cost-effective and value-based implementation of genomics and precision medicine in Australia. In partnership with policy makers, community, industry and clinical experts, we strive to ensure a sustainable future for genomic medicine and advance the methodological frontiers of our discipline.
- BabyScreen+: Genomic newborn screening for personalised lifelong healthcare in Australian babies
- Investment case for human genomic applications
- National precision health research translation for breast and prostate cancer prevention and early detection
- Our DNA
- Psychometric assessment of EQ-5D-5L, EQ-HWB and EQ-5D-Y-5L in rare genetic diseases: a mixed methods approach
- The Australian Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN-Aus): An internationally networked national approach for transforming diagnosis for individuals living with rare diseases
Economics of Global Health and Infectious Diseases Unit
We aim to improve health equity and outcomes by engaging in high quality health economic research and capacity building globally, with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. Through respectful engagement and our close partnerships, we use health economic methods to achieve improved health outcomes and decision making. Our team has a particular focus on infectious diseases and vaccines, where we leverage our existing collaborations to synthesize infectious disease modelling with health technology assessment.
- Asia-Pacific Pneumococcal Disease Control in the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Era
- Aversion to health inequality between socioeconomic, ethnic, and geographic groups: Evidence from Australia
- EDIVA - Efficacy and Demonstration of IntraVenous Iron for Anemia - Health Economic Substudy
- Equity-centred analysis of PBAC vaccine funding recommendations & legislations
- Global economic surplus of PCV
- Impact of childhood pneumonia on the health and economic well-being of the household in Laos
- Interactive Training Course on Vaccine Economics: WHO
- Lancet Hematology Commission on Anemia
- Modelling the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of introducing malaria vaccination program in Burundi
- Optimising the PCV Schedule for Immunisation Policy Making in Fiji
Evaluation and Implementation Science Unit
Our research and teaching at the unit are focussed on promoting the understanding and use of evaluation and implementation science methods in health care. Evidence of high-quality health care is generated through evaluation with implementation science informing strategies to foster the uptake of evidence into routine practice in a range of settings. Through these methods we seek to improve health care equity and outcomes.
- Achieving Equity in Genomic Health (AEGH) for Indigenous Australians
- Developing a scalable, woman-centred model for cervical cancer screening in vulnerable women in India (SHE-CAN Study)
- Development of a framework for the evaluation of policies, programs and services that aim to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing
- Efficacy and Demonstration of IntraVenous Iron for Anaemia in pregnancy (EVIDA) Bangladesh
- Evaluation of new clinical trials designs
- Evaluation of the after hours GP helpline for Healthdirect Australia 2013
- Expanding Access to Self-collection to increase cervical screening participation (EASI-C)
- Indigenous Equity Project
- Localities Embracing and Accepting Diversity (LEAD) program evaluation
- Mind the gap: Price transparency in the Australian healthcare system
- Models and quality of genetic health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Optimising the benefits of the renewed cervical screening program for Aboriginal Women in Victoria
- Pathways to Accelerated Cervical Cancer Elimination (PACE) Project
- Randomised controlled trial of the Effect of intraVenous iron on Anaemia in Malawian Pregnant women Implementation Science (REVAMP-IS) Malawi
- Responding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Aspirations to Foster Self-Determination and Social and Emotional Wellbeing
- Supporting Choice for Cervical Screening
- The After Hours Primary Health Care Program
Health and Society Unit
The Health and Society Unit brings insights from the social sciences and ethics to the study of health and health care and to the teaching of public health in the School. The Unit uses multi-disciplinary approaches to strengthen the nexus between theory and practice in the study of health and society.
- Clinical ethics and COVID-19
- Ethics and Equity: Transforming data sharing in infectious disease epidemics
- Evidence base to inform health service configuration for abortion provision
- Japan and self-help groups
- Moratorium on Genetic Testing & Life Insurance: Monitoring the impact
- Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
- Sonic Japan
- The First AIF: Risk Recovery and Resilience
- Using feminist pedagogy to resist harmful weight-loss dieting practices
- Vandemonians: The understory of colonial Victoria
- Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: ethical challenges in implementation
Health Economics and Simulation Modelling for Chronic Disease Unit
We strive to generate the best evidence through state-of-the-art research to inform healthcare policies on improving the long-term health outcomes of people living with chronic illness and reducing the economic burden on society. We develop and use innovative simulation models for chronic diseases to inform health service providers, government and industry about the health and economic impact of health interventions and policies. We work collaboratively with researchers, general practitioners, hospital-based clinicians, and decision-makers to improve the life expectancy and quality of life of people living with chronic illness and their families, and to optimise health services.
- Building a simulation model to improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction and treatment for Indigenous Australians
- Development and validation of a health policy simulation model for cardiovascular disease
- Development and validation of a health policy simulation model for type 1 diabetes
- Expenditures and prices of antihyperglycemic medications in the United States
- Impact of Medicare Part D on income-related inequality in drug expenditure
- Patient reported outcomes: getting the timing right
- Severe hypoglycaemia and Type 1 diabetes
- The growth of linked hospital data use in Australia: a systematic review
Healthy Housing Unit
The Healthy Housing Unit generates high quality epidemiological research on the relationship between housing and health. The unit also models the effect of housing focussed interventions on health and trains and mentors a new generation of scholars to conduct rigorous research on Healthy Housing. The unit translates and disseminates the work to policy makers, thought leaders, media, and the public and reinforce the message that social determinants of health are primary drivers of population health.
- An intergenerational visioning of affordable housing in a regional context
- Australian Housing Conditions: A Data Infrastructure
- Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing
- Closing the housing gap: A spotlight on intergenerational inequalities
- Evidence for action on cold, damp and mould in Australia
- From Shelter to Security: An Exploration of Crisis Accommodation
- Health and housing trajectories following climate-related natural disasters
- Housing typologies and asthma in Victoria
- Housing, place, and health inequalities across the life course
- Inequalities and climate change: developing an index of human health vulnerability to climate change in Australia
- Precarious housing and wellbeing: a multi-dimensional investigation
- Renting in the time of COVID-19: understanding the impacts
- Social impacts of climate change: examining the implications for fuel affordability inequalities
- The Healthy Environments and Lives National (HEAL) Research Network
- Validation study of damp and mould exposure in Australian homes
Law and Public Health Unit
The Law and Public Health unit at the University of Melbourne is an interfaculty initiative which spans the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and the Melbourne Law School.
- A national study of healthcare complaints
- Harnessing the Potential of Regulatory Data to Improve the Regulation of Lawyers
- Health effects of compensation systems
- Impact of medico-legal processes on the mental health and wellbeing of doctors with pre-existing injuries or illnesses
- Mandatory reporting of performance, health and conduct concerns among health practitioners
- Notifications to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency: Identifying ‘hot spots' of risk
Melbourne Health Economics
The Health Economics Unit undertakes a range of projects focused on economic evaluation as well as the assessment of efficiency, equality and quality of health care production and performance.
Melbourne Health Technology and Value Assessment Collaboration (M-VAC)
M-VAC provides a comprehensive stream of research, advisory and assessment services to underpin value-based health care policies, agendas, and reforms.