$1.8million grant to strengthen ties between evidence, policy and practice in chronic diseases
The Institute has been awarded a capacity building grant by the NHMRC to train and develop a team of health economists to research chronic diseases. There is currently a major shortage of researchers with health economics expertise in Australia.
The health economists will be looking at questions such as:
- What is the value for money from investment in different treatments?
- How do such diseases affect the economic circumstances of families?
- How do we ensure that strategies to address illness work in practice and can be sustained?
- How do these issues get put on the policy agenda?
Chief Investigators on the grant are:
- Associate Professor Stephen Jan and Professor John Chalmers from The George Institute
- Professor Glenn Salkeld, Dr Philip Clarke and Dr Kirsten Howard from the University of Sydney's School of Public Health
- Professor Stephen Leeder from the Menzies Centre for Health Policy