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Research Biography

Billingsley Kaambwa is an Associate Professor of Health Economics and the Head of Health Economics in the College of Medicine and Public Health. He currently serves on the Evaluation Sub-Committee of the Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC), which advises the Commonwealth Department of Health on the public funding of novel medical services. Previously, Billingsley was a member of an MSAC panel for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) services. Additionally, he is a member of the New Health Technology and Clinical Practice Innovation Committee (NHTCPIC) for the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN). The NHTCPIC provides governance, policy advice, and independent evidence reviews regarding the safe, clinical-, and cost-effective introduction of new, emerging, and existing health technologies in SALHN. Billingsley's extensive research and teaching experience focus on applying econometric and statistical techniques to choice modelling, decision-analytic modelling, and economic evaluations of healthcare technologies.

He has been a co-applicant on successful grant applications that total more than $30 million.

He sits on the editorial boards of 'PLoS One' and 'PharmacoEconomics Open'. He has published in leading international peer-reviewed journals for both methodological (e.g. Value in Health, BMC series) and applied (e.g. The Lancet, JAMA, European Journal of Health Economics, PharmacoEconomics, PLoS One) work.

 

An almost up-to-date list of publications is available on Google Scholar.

Research Interests

  • Application of econometric and statistical techniques in economic evaluation
  • Choice modelling
  • Decision analytic modelling
  • Economic evaluation of new and existing health care technologies

Supervised Students Successes

  • 2023 Dr Norma Bulamu - Flinders University Vice-Chancellor Early Career Researcher award 
  • Dec 2018 Dr Yogesh Sharma - College award for Best Higher Degree by Research Student Publication
  • Dec 2018 Dr Yogesh Sharma - Vice Chancellor's award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence

Supervisor Philosophy

Current Supervisions

  • PhD Health Economics (3)

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisions:

  • PhD Health Economics (1)
  • MSc Health Economics (19)
  • Honours Health Economics (1)
Associate Supervisions:
  • Honours Health Sciences (5)
  • PhD Health Economics (1)
  • PhD Malnutrition (1)
  • PhD Implementation Science (1)
  • PhD Dietetics (1)
  • PhD Hepatology (1)

External positions

Member , Evaluation Sub-Committee of the Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee

26 Jun 202426 Jun 2028

Member, New Health Technology and Clinical Practice Innovation Committee

Jul 2014 → …

Supervision

  • Registered

Research Areas

  • Public health

Supervisory Interests

  • Health economic evaluation
  • Econometrics
  • Applied statistics
  • Health economics
  • Decision analytic modelling
  • Psychometric analysis
  • Discrete choice experiment
  • Health-related quality of life

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