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Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE)
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Our vision is to create a world where decision makers are empowered with applied, trusted and influential research into health and human services policy and systems. https://www.linkedin.com/company/macquarie-university-centre-for-the-health-economy/
*MUCHE Seminar* [Wednesday 6th August, 11AM-12PM AEST]. Please join us for our next seminar with Dr @ksaxby.bsky.social who will discuss mental health treatment among transgender and gender diverse people following gender affirming hormone therapy @ Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, MQ U
July 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
*MUCHE External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 9th July, 11AM-12PM AEST]. Please join us for our next seminar with A/Prof Anthony Newall from UNSW who will discuss modelling herd effects in the economic evaluation of vaccines. Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, MQ U
July 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
*MUCHE External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 18th June, 11AM-12PM AEST] A/Prof Jean Spinks (University of Queensland) will be discussing trial results on an intervention to detect, review & resolve medication-related problems in primary care. Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road
June 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
MUCHE was honoured to host a Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre Symposium on 'Health Economics, Measurement of Preferences, and AI-informed Mental Healthcare', including presentations by MUCHE researchers, MQ Prof Sheila Degotardi and A/Prof Alexis Whitton from the Black Dog Institute.
May 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This week we enjoyed an external seminar by Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark (Uni of Sydney) on 'Self-Control, Sophistication, and Problem Gambling'. Prof Cobb-Clark shared fascinating research insights from analysis of survey data from a random sample of active online gamblers in Australia.
May 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
*MUCHE External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 4th June, 11AM-12PM AEST] Dr Christiern Rose (The University of Queensland) will be giving a seminar next week on 'Peer Effects in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder'.
Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie University
May 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
🎉 Congratulations to A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu and colleagues on receiving Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts Research Engagement Award on the project “Early Childhood Education Pay and Conditions”, where Yuanyuan led the discrete choice experiment. Cross-disciplinary research with real-world impact ⭐
May 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
*External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 28th May, 11AM-12PM AEST] Please join us for a seminar by Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark (University of Sydney) on 'Self-Control, Sophistication, and Problem Gambling'. Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie University
May 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Great seminar at our city campus with A/Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas (Oxford) on value-based care, integrated care reforms & early psychosis interventions. Our Director, Prof Henry Cutler, also shared insights from a national consultation on embedding value into mental health funding in Australia
April 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Congratulations to Dr @anambilgrami.bsky.social, Prof Henry Cutler, A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu & Mona Aghdaee for winning a Macquarie Business School 2025 Research Impact Prize for 'Enhancing care and support for older Australians living in the community with cognitive impairment'!
April 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Shaping better decisions through trusted, applied research. Meet the team driving impactful change in health and human services policy and systems. #HealthEconomics #PolicyImpact #TrustedResearch

@bonnyeconomist.bsky.social @anambilgrami.bsky.social @alfurka.bsky.social @aihi-mq.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Visiting A/Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas from University of Oxford delivered a super-interesting external seminar yesterday on value-based payments in the context of encouraging and evaluating integrated care. Thanks A/Prof Tsiachristas for the insightful presentation and discussion!
April 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
*F2F Seminar* [Monday 14th April, 2-3PM AEST] Please join us for a seminar by A/Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas exploring how payment models enabling integrated care and robust evaluation frameworks guiding investment and disinvestment decisions. Location: Finance Decision Lab, Macquarie Business School
April 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Two MUCHE teams battled it out in the ultimate showdown at our inaugural MUCHE Ping Pong Tournament yesterday! It was close competition but congratulations to the winning team for taking the cup!!🥇 @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social @alfurka.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Our Muslim colleagues arranged a special lunch at MUCHE to celebrate the joyous occasion of Eid ul Fitr (marking the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan)! We enjoyed delicious cuisne from Pakistan, Lebanon and Turkey 💚 🎉 @anambilgrami.bsky.social @alfurka.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today we enjoyed an insightful online seminar by A/Prof Mike Paulden (Uni of Alberta). Thank you A/Prof Paulden for sharing your research on a 'A Framework for the Fair Pricing of Medicines'! Follow our account to stay updated on our upcoming external seminars this year!
April 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
*External seminar - Virtual* [Wed 2 April 11AM-12PM AEDT] Please join us for our MUCHE seminar in April with A/Prof Mike Paulden from the University of Alberta. A/Prof Paulden will discuss 'A Framework for the Fair Pricing of Medicines'. @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social Join online: lnkd.in/gFFZqpPN
March 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Do you work with the Government, Academia, or the Pharma industry connected with pharmaceutical funding and/or #HTA? Get involved in #research on disinvestment in pharmaceuticals. Involvement = 20 mins of online survey.

See:
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#Healtheconomics
March 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Our Research Fellow, Dr Ali Furkan Kalay (alfurka.bsky.social) presented at the 'Artificial Intelligence, Law and Society Conference' at Macquarie University (February 14, 2025). He presented his PhD research on "Generating Synthetic Data with Locally Estimated Distributions for Disclosure Control”
February 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Welcome to our BlueSky acct! MUCHE was established as a strategic initiative to undertake innovative research on health, ageing and human services. Follow us to learn about our research in policy evaluation, economic evaluation and health technology assessment & keep up to date on all our events!
February 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Congratulations to A/Professor Jonas Fooken, his former PhD student Timothy Ludlow and co-authors on publishing their research on housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health in Economics & Human Biology (ABDC: A)! Read here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@aihi-mq.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM