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Congratulations to Dr Rezwanul Rana and his co-authors on publishing their systematic review on the impact of agricultural insurance on farmers’ mental health in 'Environment, Development and Sustainability'. Australian Institute of Health Innovation link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congratulations to CIs Prof Henry Cutler, Dr Anam Bilgrami, Dr Ali Furkan Kalay & Dr Alan Woodward on receiving a grant worth $296K from the National Suicide Prevention Office for research to predict self-harm and suicide risk in Australian Local Government Areas. Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Congratulations to A/Prof Jonas Fooken and co-authors on publishing their research titled 'Private health insurance and health in a healthcare system with comprehensive public insurance' in Empirical Economics (ABDC: A). Australian Institute of Health Innovation link.springer.com/article/10.100…

MUCHE Researchers enjoyed visiting the Black Dog Institute earlier this week. We enjoyed insightful discussions about our exciting ongoing and future research collaborations, followed by a delicious Japanese lunch. Thanks to the BDI team for hosting us!

MUCHE researchers enjoyed attending and presenting at the CEPAR 32nd Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research. Thank you to the event organisers for a great event!

Congratulations to MUCHE Associate Professor, Jonas Fooken, who has been recognised as a leader in the field of decision science in the The Australian’s Research 2025 magazine! Australian Institute of Health Innovation Macquarie University lighthouse.mq.edu.au/media-releases…

'Planning for old age? Here’s what the aged care changes mean for you' Read this Explainer piece by Dr Anam Bilgrami, on the sweeping reforms to Australia’s aged care system and what these may mean for people planning for aged care. Australian Institute of Health Innovation theconversation.com/planning-for-o…

⭐Congratulations to our Research Fellow, Dr RajanSharma, for being promoted to Level B! Rajan’s promotion reflects his continued contributions to health technology assessment and his significant publication & grant successes, as an emerging leader in health econ evaluation⭐️

We enjoyed some delicious Lebanese 🇱🇧 food for our end-of-year/Christmas lunch. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from the MUCHE team! ✨🎉 Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Associate Professor Yuanyuan Gu delivered a keynote presentation at the 17th China Health Technology Assessment Forum (Fuzhou, 7-8 December 2024). A/Prof Gu shared insights on how equity considerations can be incorporated into healthcare resource allocation decisions. Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Are you a #policymaker, #researcher, or work in #health and want to know more about health economic evaluation? MUCHE will be running an in-person short introductory course on Feb 21st covering key concepts used & how these can inform policy decisions: tinyurl.com/jnxckmw9

*External Seminar*[Wed 12 Feb 11am-12pm]. Join us for a talk by Prof Professor Julie. Ratcliffe (Flinders University) on a 4-year project to validate new person-centred quality indicators for aged care. Hybrid. Venue: Room 3137, 75 Talavera Road. Zoom link: macquarie.zoom.us/j/88510953450?… (Passcode: 455805)

MUCHE A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu has been invited to join a newly established ISPOR Good Practices Task Force: Preference Heterogeneity in Stated Choice Data. Learn more about the task force here: ispor.org/member-groups/… Australian Institute of Health Innovation #healthpreference #preferenceheterogeneity

Want to learn more about health economic concepts and how they can be used to inform policy decisions? Last chance to sign up for our health econevaluation course running on Feb 21st - see below. Places are filling up Australian Institute of Health Innovation

This week, the federal government announced it will pay states and territories an extra, one-off, A$1.7 billion for public hospitals. Read Professor Henry Cutler's new piece in The Conversation on whether this will make a difference to waiting times. theconversation.com/hospitals-will…

📣📣Our online seminar series “Economics of Mental Health” starts in March this year with A/Prof Jonas Fooken of MUCHE - moved to BlueSky! 📚Topic: Pharmacist workload, subjective and physiological stress, and the risk of unsafe practice 📅Date: 6th of March ⏰ Time: 12-1 pm AEDT 📷 Sign

We enjoyed an excellent talk today by Professor Professor Julie. Ratcliffe (Flinders University) on her major research project to develop and validate new person-centred quality indicators for aged care. Thank you Professor Ratcliffe for visiting us & for a very engaging seminar! Australian Institute of Health Innovation #agedcare

Hot off the press! Our paper "Intrinsic Capacity Across 15 Countries in the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe" is now published in JAMA Network Open. Read the full paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

An invited commentary on the paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…