The Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST) has been set up at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) within the University of Technology Sydney, as part of the Cancer Australia Support for Clinical Trials program.

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CREST

As part of the Cancer Australia Support for Clinical Trials program, the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) has been contracted to provide a dedicated Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST) for the provision of high quality, expert advice and support to the Multi-site Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Groups (CTGs).

In turn, CREST will play an important part in ensuring that the CTGs produce high-quality economic evidence able to be incorporated into future decision-making, and ultimately contribute to providing patients with improved access to cost-effective cancer treatments.

CHERE regards this service as vitally important to the development of health economics, and ultimately to improved access for patients to cost-effective cancer treatments in Australia. We look forward to continuing to work with all the CTGs to develop and conduct world’s best health economic analysis alongside clinical trials in the field of cancer care.

CHERE

The Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) is a Research Strength of the University of Technology Sydney and is recognised nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence in health economics and health services research. CHERE was established in 1991 and became a centre at UTS in 2002.

CHERE's aim is to contribute to the development and application of health economics and health services research through research, teaching and policy support. CHERE contributes to the university's mission through:

  • Achieving research excellence through knowledge creation and dissemination
  • Using research outcomes to contribute to the development of health policy and practice
  • Providing informed commentary to community debate on health policy, and
  • Providing health sector relevant education to facilitate the application of economic analysis to health policy and practice

Our people

CREST is guided by a senior management team.

 

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