Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE)

*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

*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

*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

A reminder about our seminar next week with Dr Christiern Rose. Join us face-to-face.

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.

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.

Reminder about our seminar this Wednesday

*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

🎉 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 ⭐

Intrinsic Capacity Centile Curves in Older Adults’ Care Within a framework for healthy aging, the World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed the construct of intrinsic capacity (IC), which is “the composite of all the physical and mental capacities that ...

An invited commentary praised a new publication on intrinsic capacity in Europe in JAMA Network Open by MUCHE PhD candidate Meimei Chen, A/Prof Yuanyuan and co-authors, including their notable contributions to healthy ageing research:
Read more here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

*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

Intrinsic Capacity in the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe This cohort study determines and validates the structure of intrinsic capacity using data from participants 50 years or older from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe.

*New paper* "Intrinsic Capacity Across 15 Countries in the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe" by Meimei Chen, A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu and co-authors is now out in JAMA Network Open (IF: 10.5). A cross-country validation of IC construct using European data. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

⭐ Congratulations to our PhD Candidate, Shan Jiang, who has been awarded a prestigious fellowship, as part of the 2026 Brocher Foundation program, which will support a 2–3 month research stay in Switzerland! @aihi-mq.bsky.social⭐

I just got back from an amazing trip to China to meet researchers at the Shanghai Health Development Research Centre and present at a workshop and massive conference. Fascinating insights into #HTA processes and #healtheconomics research in China.

⭐ Congratulations to our Research Fellow, Dr Ali Furkan Kalay @alfurka.bsky.social who was selected as one of four recipients from Macquarie Business School of the 2025 ECR Enabling Scheme! Dr Kalay will use the award funding to present his research at an international conference ⭐

Aggregate distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: a novel tool for health economic evaluation to inform resource allocation - Global Health Research and Policy Health equity is a growing concern for policymakers across the globe. Conventional cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), commonly used in evaluating health interventions, primarily focuses on the average...

*New MUCHE publication* Traditional CEA misses how health gains are distributed. A-DCEA offers a practical tool to assess distributional impacts using aggregate data—bringing equity into the picture, even when data is limited. @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social

🔗 ghrp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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

'Safe seat syndrome? Why some hospitals get upgrades and others miss out'

Read this new piece out in The Conversation today by Dr @anambilgrami.bsky.social & Prof Henry Cutler.

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'!

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

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!

*Reminder* MUCHE are still seeking participants for this 20-minute online survey who are connected with pharmaceutical funding and/or health technology assessments and work in government, academia or the pharma industry. Please see full details below.

*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

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

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

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!

A reminder about our online External Seminar tomorrow (Wed 2 April) with A/Prof Mike Paulden. Don't forget to join us on Zoom (see link in the post below).

The budget delivers cheaper medicines and more bulk billing but leaves out long-term health reform, writes Professor Henry Cutler. Read our Centre Director, Professor Henry Cutler's, analysis of the Federal Health Budget, in The Conversation.

Congratulations @anambilgrami.bsky.social for being awarded the Macquarie University Business School (MQBS) Early Career Researcher of the year! Well deserved. @muche-macquarie.bsky.social is proud of you.