Sadly, the unknown perpetrator remains at large. Lock your doors and windows and don’t talk to strangers until law enforcement officials secure the area.

Solidarity with Liam Cunningham and all on the "freedom flotilla" to Gaza 🇵🇸

Ms. Rachel says she’ll keep advocating for children in Gaza, even if it means risking her career

*MUCHE External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 18th June, 11AM-12PM AEST] A/Prof Jean Spinks (University of Queensland) will be discussing trial results on an intervention to detect, review & resolve medication-related problems in primary care. Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road

MUCHE was honoured to host a Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre Symposium on 'Health Economics, Measurement of Preferences, and AI-informed Mental Healthcare', including presentations by MUCHE researchers, MQ Prof Sheila Degotardi and A/Prof Alexis Whitton from the Black Dog Institute.

*MUCHE External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 4th June, 11AM-12PM AEST] Dr Christiern Rose (The University of Queensland) will be giving a seminar next week on 'Peer Effects in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder'. Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie University

🎉 Congratulations to A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu and colleagues on receiving Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts Research Engagement Award on the project “Early Childhood Education Pay and Conditions”, where Yuanyuan led the discrete choice experiment. Cross-disciplinary research with real-world impact ⭐

An invited commentary praised a new publication on intrinsic capacity in Europe in JAMA Network Open by MUCHE PhD candidate Meimei Chen, A/Prof Yuanyuan and co-authors, including their notable contributions to healthy ageing research: Read more here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

*External Seminar - face-to-face* [Wednesday 28th May, 11AM-12PM AEST] Please join us for a seminar by Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark (University of Sydney) on 'Self-Control, Sophistication, and Problem Gambling'. Location: Continuum Room, Level 3, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie University

*New paper* "Intrinsic Capacity Across 15 Countries in the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe" by Meimei Chen, A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu and co-authors is now out in JAMA Network Open (IF: 10.5). A cross-country validation of IC construct using European data. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

*New MUCHE publication* Traditional CEA misses how health gains are distributed. A-DCEA offers a practical tool to assess distributional impacts using aggregate data—bringing equity into the picture, even when data is limited. @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social 🔗 ghrp.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

In 1997, Nova Peris was the recipient of a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Important that you @albomp.bsky.social demand the Chair of the Council for the Order of Australia takes steps to strip Peris of this honour. Nova Peris is a disgrace to this nation. #auspol

Great seminar at our city campus with A/Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas (Oxford) on value-based care, integrated care reforms & early psychosis interventions. Our Director, Prof Henry Cutler, also shared insights from a national consultation on embedding value into mental health funding in Australia

'Safe seat syndrome? Why some hospitals get upgrades and others miss out' Read this new piece out in The Conversation today by Dr @anambilgrami.bsky.social & Prof Henry Cutler.

Congratulations to Dr @anambilgrami.bsky.social, Prof Henry Cutler, A/Prof Yuanyuan Gu & Mona Aghdaee for winning a Macquarie Business School 2025 Research Impact Prize for 'Enhancing care and support for older Australians living in the community with cognitive impairment'!

Shaping better decisions through trusted, applied research. Meet the team driving impactful change in health and human services policy and systems. #HealthEconomics #PolicyImpact #TrustedResearch @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social @anambilgrami.bsky.social @alfurka.bsky.social @aihi-mq.bsky.social

Visiting A/Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas from University of Oxford delivered a super-interesting external seminar yesterday on value-based payments in the context of encouraging and evaluating integrated care. Thanks A/Prof Tsiachristas for the insightful presentation and discussion!

Apparently it is the ALP’s fault for forcing the LNP to drop the policy that they are also now apologising for having had in the first place. #abc730

I’m quite surprised this researcher managed to churn out this analysis so quickly. Well done Niven Winchester!

*F2F Seminar* [Monday 14th April, 2-3PM AEST] Please join us for a seminar by A/Prof Apostolos Tsiachristas exploring how payment models enabling integrated care and robust evaluation frameworks guiding investment and disinvestment decisions. Location: Finance Decision Lab, Macquarie Business School

Our Muslim colleagues arranged a special lunch at MUCHE to celebrate the joyous occasion of Eid ul Fitr (marking the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan)! We enjoyed delicious cuisne from Pakistan, Lebanon and Turkey 💚 🎉 @anambilgrami.bsky.social @alfurka.bsky.social

A reminder about our online External Seminar tomorrow (Wed 2 April) with A/Prof Mike Paulden. Don't forget to join us on Zoom (see link in the post below).

The budget delivers cheaper medicines and more bulk billing but leaves out long-term health reform, writes Professor Henry Cutler. Read our Centre Director, Professor Henry Cutler's, analysis of the Federal Health Budget, in The Conversation.

A very timely piece given the US pharmaceutical lobby's attacks on the PBS

Thank you Bonny :) Your and MUCHE's support and encouragement means so much to me! ❤️

Israel just killed hundreds of Palestinians, including kids. The US just killed dozens of Yemenis, including kids. "Why do they hate us?" asks the American public, blissfully ignorant of what's being done in its name in the Middle East by the US and its ally Israel. Sigh.

'Mounting costs, inequality and a US-style user pays model? The future of Australian healthcare' Catch our Centre Director, Professor Henry Cutler, as a panellist on SBS TV's Insight program tonight (8:30pm) (or after on the streaming platform, SBS on Demand) www.sbs.com.au/news/insight...

*External seminar - Virtual* [Wed 2 April 11AM-12PM AEDT] Please join us for our MUCHE seminar in April with A/Prof Mike Paulden from the University of Alberta. A/Prof Paulden will discuss 'A Framework for the Fair Pricing of Medicines'. @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social Join online: lnkd.in/gFFZqpPN

The detention and death of healthcare workers in Gaza affects the entire population www.croakey.org/the-detentio...

Columbia University ‘refusing to help’ identify people for arrest – White House www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The most stark visual of how the antivax rhetoric around the pandemic demolished public health and brought us to this moment.

Do you work with the Government, Academia, or the Pharma industry connected with pharmaceutical funding and/or #HTA? Get involved in #research on disinvestment in pharmaceuticals. Involvement = 20 mins of online survey. See: redcap.mq.edu.au/surveys/?s=E... #Healtheconomics

Are Urgent Care Clinics worth the money when we have Emergency Departments and GPs? Check out Professor Henry Cutler's new piece in The Conversation theconversation.com/50-new-urgen...

A very generous PhD scholarship opportunity at MUCHE to undertake economic research on AI-informed treatment for mental distress.

ICC urged to investigate Biden for ‘aiding and abetting’ Gaza war crimes

New from me and Yuting Zhang in the @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-major-pa...

Depending on where you live, Ramadan can mean going 12 to 19 hours without eating or drinking anything.

Racism is going to be the main through line of this election www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

"Almost all of the terrorist plots Asio disrupted last year involved minors, Burgess said in his speech. All were attempted by lone actors or small groups and none of the attacks or plots were directly inspired by the conflict in Gaza." www.theguardian.com/...

Should pharmacists should be able to provide the pill over-the-counter in Australia? 4 out of 5 experts say yes (within limits) - including myself. Find out why: theconversation.com/5-experts-sh... @muche-macquarie.bsky.social

Our research on bulk billing feat today in the medical republic “Tripled bulk billing incentives unlikely to reduce out-of-pockets, say researchers” www.medicalrepublic.com.au/tripled-bbi-...

Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly Via: @nourhaydar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Our Research Fellow, Dr Ali Furkan Kalay (alfurka.bsky.social) presented at the 'Artificial Intelligence, Law and Society Conference' at Macquarie University (February 14, 2025). He presented his PhD research on "Generating Synthetic Data with Locally Estimated Distributions for Disclosure Control”

Congratulations to A/Professor Jonas Fooken, his former PhD student Timothy Ludlow and co-authors on publishing their research on housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health in Economics & Human Biology (ABDC: A)! Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @aihi-mq.bsky.social

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“Creative Australia’s executive director, Adrian Collette, told staff at an angry meeting on Monday that the public outcry would have been greater than the one he now finds himself embroiled in, if the Sabsabi exhibition had gone ahead” He means outcry in The Oz www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...