I am an early career Research Associate working in the health economics research group in the College of Medicine and Public Health. My background is in health economics and statistics, particularly the use of observational data to inform statistical modelling and quantitative analyses. My PhD involved an investigation of the use of causal inference methods in evaluation of hospital services reliant on routinely collected hospital data. The current focus of my work is the use of linked administrative hospital data in the evaluation of hospital services.

Recent projects have included the economic evaluation of the SALHN Medical Ambulatory Care Service (MACS), an external review of the Wellbeing SA My Home Hospital (MyHH) service, and a multistate cost-effectiveness evaluation of the switch of the use of high-sensitivity troponin assays in the management of patients presenting to ED with suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes. Previous work also included the construction, validation and calibration of an individual-based state-transition microsimulation model, which predicts the progression of frailty and frailty-related events in older Australians and aims to enabling the economic evaluation of interventions to prevent or better manage frailty in community dwelling older people in Australia. I am currently working on a discrete event simulation, to enable the evaluation of interventions targeted at ED overcrowding and inpatient access block.

My research interests are in comparative hospital services, economic evaluations, and statistical methods.