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Following the announcement of a new public hospital funding deal between the Federal Government and the states, worth an extra $25 billion over 5 years, Prof @tony40.bsky.social spoke to ABC News Radio about why the funding was needed and what it could mean. Listen: drive.google.com/file/d/15zDx...

Boys in disadvantaged communities in Indonesia & Fiji are falling behind girls academically, reflecting a trend seen in many countries globally. A study of 1400+ children in 24 informal settlements found boys averaged 3 hrs less on education vs girls. Read the #CHEResearchBite: go.monash.edu/x4s5jr

Our director, Prof @tony40.bsky.social was interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons about the potential impacts of US #tariffs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), the Australian pharmaceutical industry, and drug supplies. Listen to the full interview🎧: go.monash.edu/hegeeu

Will the US trade war push up the price of medicines in Australia? Will there be drug shortages? All this talk of a US-Australia trade war has left consumers wondering what this means for them. At least in the short term, it looks like good news.

Will the US trade war push up the price of medicines in Australia? Will there be drug shortages? Read @tony40.bsky.social & colleagues' thoughts on how talks of a trade dispute between the US & Australia over the cost of medicines could play out domestically: go.monash.edu/xhjksh

Apply now for our new Integrated PhD program! Receive rigorous training at the largest #HealthEconomics PhD program in Australia. Opportunities are available across all topics of health economics. Apply by 2 March for a July 2025 start: inomics.com/program/cent...

Get a head-start on 2025! Register now for our 1-day short course "Economics of the #HealthWorkforce" on 13 Feb, taught by leading international experts from @che-monash.bsky.social & University of Aberdeen.
#HealthPolicy #HealthEconomics #MedicareAustralia #HumanServices

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The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67.

Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social

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Vertical integration of insurers and health care providers allows rorting

We are always and will always be too optimistic about the near term
Future of health care. But it is these visions of how things could be (and should be) that serve to motivate us to do better and inform our goals and missions

Hope you can join us for a great workshop

By colour?

Title slide: Acting as if our trials might matter: the need for trial statisticians in Ireland By Darren Dahly, Clinical Research Facility at University College Cork Research waste figure from Chalmers and Glasziou 2009: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19525005/

Looking forward to speaking at the NCTO (ncto.ie) end of year event later today. Thanks to @robertoconnor.bsky.social for the opportunity to have my say.

Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra on Apple Music Song · 1977 · Duration 5:05

I’m new to this and I’m sure someone has done this before music.apple.com/au/album/mr-...

And me!