Professor Rachael Morton leads the Health Economics team at the CTC. She specialises in trial-based and modelled economic evaluation, and elicitation of patient preferences using discrete choice experiments. Her research incorporates patient-centred and economic outcomes into clinical trials of diagnostic tests, new treatments and models of care to facilitate policy decision-making on the basis of cost-effectiveness.

Research interests

• Health economics of melanoma
• Chronic kidney disease.
• Health equity in disadvantaged populations both in Australia and overseas.
• Systematic reviews of economic evidence
• Assessment of test evaluation and monitoring
• Measurement of quality of life and well-being
• End-of-life care

Teaching and supervision

Rachael is coordinator for one unit of study in health economics within the Masters programmes in the Sydney Medical School / School of Public Health: Health Economics in Trials (CLTR 5006). She coordinates short courses in health economics for government and industry and currently supervises five PhD candidates.

Expertise

• Within-trial and modelled economic evaluation
• Preference elicitation
• Outcomes assessment
• Health equity
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Melanoma and other cancers

Professional Associations

• President, Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ), member since 2011
• Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) member since 2016; Co-chair ACTA Reference Group – “Research Prioritisation: tools and criteria” since 2017
• Health Economists’s Clinical Trials Alliance (HECTA) – Founding member since 2016
• International Society for Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), member since 2009
• International Health Economics Association (IHEA) Program Chair 2018/19, member since 2008
• Health Economists Study Group – UK (HESG) member since 2010
• Cochrane Equity Methods Group member since 2013
• Australia and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN) member since 1996
• Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group (ANZMTG) Founding member since 2003
• Expert Reference Group member, Renal node - Joanna Briggs Institute member since 2012

Publications

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