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Former postgraduate health economics research degree students; their thesis topic and where they are now.

Jackie Yim

Thesis: Economic implications of anxiety and depression in cancer care
Degree: PhD (2022)
Supervisors:  Prof Rosalie Viney, Dr Sheena Arora, Dr Joanne Shaw (PoCoG, University of Sydney)
Where are they now?  Jackie is a Project Manager at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Royal North Shore Hospital

Brendan Mulhern

Thesis: Testing and advancing the methods used to develop and value preference based measures for use in economic evaluation
Degree: PhD (2020)
Supervisors:  Prof Rosalie Viney, Prof Deborah Street, Prof John Brazier (University of Sheffield)
Where are they now?  Brendan is an Associate Professor at CHERE

Roslyn Prichard

Thesis: The cost effectiveness of advanced heart failure management and mechanical circulatory assist therapy
Degree: PhD (2020)
Supervisors:  Prof Stephen Goodall, Prof Patricia Davidson (Johns Hopkins University, Prof Chris Hayward (St Vincent’s Hospital)
Where are they now?  Ros is Lecturer at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine at the University of the Sunshine Coast

Rebecca Addo

Thesis: The feasibility of health technology assessment in the Ghana health system
Degree: PhD (2019)
Supervisors:  Prof Jane Hall, Prof Marion Haas, Prof Stephen Goodall
Where are they now?  Rebecca is a Research Fellow at CHERE

Sheena Arora

Thesis:  Economic evaluation of an intervention in parents with children who have developmental disabilities
Degree: PhD (2018)
Supervisors:  Prof Stephen Goodall,  Prof Rosalie Viney, Prof Stewart Einfeld (University of Sydney)
Where are they now?  Sheena is a Senior Research Fellow at CHERE

Jody Church

Thesis:  Modelling the costs and benefits of interventions to prevent and reduce obesity
Degree: PhD (2019)
Supervisors:  Prof Stephen Goodall,  Prof Rosalie Viney, Prof Marion Haas
Where are they now?  Jody is a Research Fellow at CHERE

Paula Cronin

Thesis:   The economic impact of childhood communication impairments
Degree: PhD (2018)
Supervisors:  Prof Stephen Goodall,  Prof Rosalie Viney, Rebecca Reeve (UNSW), Trish McCabe (University of Sydney)
Where are they now?  Paula is a Senior Research Fellow at CHERE

Richard De Abreu Lourenco

Thesis:   More than Health: the role and value of meta-health effects in health care decisions
Degree: PhD (2016)
Supervisors:  Prof Rosalie Viney, Prof Marion Haas, Prof Jane Hall
Where are they now?  Richard is an Associate Professor at CHERE

Philip Haywood

Thesis:   Towards a consistent and validated modelling approach in cancer pharmaceuticals for equity and effect
Degree: PhD (2019)
Supervisors:  Prof Marion Haas, Prof Rosalie Viney, Dr Melvin Chin (POW Hospital)
Where are they now?  Philip is a Senior Research Fellow at CHERE

Richard Norman

Thesis:   Outcome valuation in the economic evaluation of healthcare
Degree: PhD (2012)
Supervisors:  Prof Jane Hall, Prof Rosalie Viney, Prof Debbie Street
Where are they now?  Richard is an Associate Professor at Curtin University in Perth

Bonny Parkinson

Thesis:   Pharmaceutical policy in Australia: developing methods to manage uncertainty in health technology assessment
Degree: PhD (2015)
Supervisors:  Prof Rosalie Viney, Prof Stephen Goodall, Prof Marion Haas, 
Where are they now?  Bonny is a Senior Research Fellow at the Macquarie University Centre for Health Economy

Alison Pearce

Thesis:   Investigating chemotherapy adverse events: Incidence, costs and consequences
Degree: PhD (2013)
Supervisors:  Prof Marion Haas, Prof Rosalie Viney
Where are they now?  Alison is a Senior Research Fellow the University of Sydney

Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

Thesis:   Horizontal equity in the Australian health care system:  Exploring the unknowns and updating the knowns
Degree: PhD (2019)
Supervisors:  Prof Jane Hall, A/Prof Kees van Gool
Where are they now?  Mohammad is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nova Scotia Health Authority and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada

Kees van Gool

Thesis:    Out-of-pocket costs and health care: evidence from Australia's Medicare program
Degree: PhD (2011)
Supervisors:  Prof Elizabeth Savage, Prof Rosalie Viney
Where are they now?  Kees is a Professor and Deputy Director of CHERE

Heni Wahyhuni

Thesis:    Maternal and infant health in Indonesia
Degree: PhD (2014)
Supervisors:  Prof Jane Hall, Prof Rosalie Viney, Dr Rebecca Reeve (UNSW)
Where are they now?  Heni is a lecturer in the Economics Department of the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Michael Wright

Thesis:   Changing continuity of care in Australian general practice and its effect on the health costs and the health of Australians
Degree: PhD (2019)
Supervisors:  Prof Jane Hall, A/Prof Kees van Gool, Prof Marion Haas
Where are they now?  Michael is a Research Fellow at CHERE and a part-time General Practitioner

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