Law and Public Health
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Professor Marie Bismark+61 3 8344 0657
Research Overview
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.
Our research and teaching is focused at the intersection of the legal and health systems. A guiding question in most of our work is: How can law and regulation be used to improve population health and the quality of health care services? We seek to train that question on the most pressing health policy issues of the day to provide new and valuable information for policymakers.
Researchers within our group have expertise in law, public health, medicine, patient advocacy, policy analysis, epidemiology, applied ethics and economics.
Centre for Health Policy contact details
Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Victoria, 3010, Australia
Tel: +61 3 8344 9111
email: CHP-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au
Staff
Professor Marie Bismark (Unit Head)
Twitter - https://twitter.com/mbismark
Research Projects
- 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
- A national study of healthcare complaints
- Notifications to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency: Identifying ‘hot spots' of risk
School Research Themes
Data science, health metrics and disease modeling, Disparities, disadvantage and effective health care
Key Contact
For further information about this research, please contact Unit Head Professor Marie Bismark
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