*MUCHE EXTERNAL SEMINAR* [Thu 18 Apr 11AM-12PM AEST] Join us for a fascinating talk by visiting scholar, A/Prof Giuseppe Moscelli 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@economicssurrey), on English doctors’ preferences over hospital attributes and residential amenities when changing jobs. F2F: MGSM seminar room 101

Thank you Rotary clubs of North Ryde, Ryde and Macquarie Park for you ongoing support helping us to provide treatment to disadvantaged children. I know many families that have benefited from your generosity. Please support Rotary's annual fun run...its also good for your health!

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has announced Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite's appointment to the Commission Board. Prof Christine Kilpatrick is the new Chair. Congratulations to all new appointees. ACSQHC Jeffrey Braithwaite

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MUCHE enjoyed two external seminars this month, the 1st by Dr Nathan Kettlewell (UTS) on RCT evidence on engagement with a mental health smartphone app and the 2nd by Prof J. Schreyögg (Hamburg) on country-level effects of DRGs in Germany. Stay tuned for info on future seminars!

Congrats to Dr Varinder Jeet who is CI on a successful MRFF grant in collab. with UNSW worth $1.98 million. This 5-year study will conduct a pragmatic RCT digitally support self-management and medication adherence for people with COPD health.gov.au/ministers/the-… Australian Institute of Health Innovation

A reminder about our external, face-to-face seminar this Thursday. Dr Nathan Kettlewell (UTS) is presenting his research on engagement with mental health smartphone interventions. Location: Room 3137 (Continuum Room), Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie University.

*NEW PUBLICATION* 'Improving emergency department care for adults presenting with mental illness: a systematic review..' by Elizabeth Austin (CHRIS), Alicia Norman (MUCHE) et al in Frontiers in Psychiatry (Q1, IF: 4.7)
Australian Institute of Health Innovation
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This International Women's Day, we acknowledge and celebrate the achievements and contributions of all the amazing women at MUCHE - fantastic colleagues, researchers and friends. Happy International Women's Day to the women at MUCHE, AIHI, MQBS and beyond! #IWD2024 #CountHerIn

*MUCHE EXTERNAL SEMINAR* [Tues 26 March 11:00am-12:00pm AEDT] Prof Jonas Schreyögg (Uni of Hamburg) will be talking about the impact of a German reform introducing DRGs on hospital activity & efficiency. F2F. Location: Room 6.02, Level 6, 75 Talavera Rd, Macq Uni Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Life expectancy for a person aged 15 years in 2020 is predicted to have dropped by 1.33 years due to the #Covid_19 pandemic - research from Dr Guogui Huang guogui huang Macquarie University MUCHE

nature.com/articles/s4159…

'We should have ejected, but I didn’t want to be the woman pilot who crashed a foreign plane.' Read about life before health services research for Prof Robyn Clay-Williams Robyn Clay-Williams #IWD 2024 #IWD #patientsafety lighthouse.mq.edu.au/life/humans-of…

New publication 'Complexity and competing interests: what factors bear on payment choices and financial decisions made for older people entering nursing homes?' by Anam Bilgrami (انعم), Ph.D H. Cutler Yuanyuan Gu Mona Aghdaee in Applied Economics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Australian Institute of Health Innovation Ecstra Foundation

*New MUCHE publication* 'The role of financial literacy when informal caregivers make complex financial decisions' by Henry Cutler Anam Bilgrami (انعم), Ph.D Megan Gu Yuanyuan Gu Mona Aghdaee in Applied Economics (ABDC: A) Australian Institute of Health Innovation Ecstra Foundation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

*New publication*: 'The role of refundable accommodation deposits in financing aged care capital expenditure: Views from the sector' by M. Gu, H. Cutler, Mona Aghdaee, Yuanyuan Gu, Anam Bilgrami (انعم), Ph.D in Australian Journal of Management Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Higher penalties, broader definitions & national standards: Did harmonized Australian workplace health & safety laws reduce workers' compensation receipt? - Bilgrami - IR A Journal of Economy and Society - Wiley Online Library.
Open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Happy Chinese New Year (Year of the Wood Dragon) from the MUCHE team!

MUCHE Researchers, Shari Stathis, Dr Rajan Sharma, Dr Rezwanul Rana, Dr Anam Bilgrami & A/Prof Jonas Fooken were happy to attend and present their research at the 2024 Emerging Health Policy & Economics Research Conference, hosted by University of Sydney

Congratulations to lead investigators Professor Mark Hancock and Jeffrey Braithwaite and Reema Harrison, PhD of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation