Australian Health Services Research Institute

The AHSRI Team

The Institute works as a multidisciplinary team and the staff has qualifications and expertise across sixteen disciplines. About half of the team has previous experience working in policy, management and clinical positions in the health system. There is a commitment to blending quantitative and qualitative approaches and to producing outputs that are easily understood, and that can be of practical use.

The AHSRI team (including staff members of the Institute's other centres) in 2013 are:

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Centre for Health Service Development

Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre

Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

National Casemix and Classification Centre

Australasian Occupational Science Centre

Centre for Applied Statistics in Health

Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration

AHSRI Affiliates and Honorary Fellows

  • Raymond Chambers, Professor (Applied Statistics)
  • Sara Dolnicar, Professor (Management and Marketing)
  • Don Lewis, Professor (Health Economics)
  • Peter Eklund, Professor and Head of Information Systems (Health Informatics)
  • John Glynn, Professor and Dean of Sydney Business School
  • David Steel, Professor (Applied Statistics)
  • Matthew Wand, Professor (Applied Statistics)
  • Robert Clark, Senior Lecturer (Applied Statistics)
  • Roy Harvey, Associate Professor (Health Economics)
  • Helen Hasan, Associate Professor (Economics and Information Systems)
  • Heather Yeatman, Associate Professor (Policy Research)
  • Damian Ryan, Honorary Senior Lecturer (Health Informatics)
  • Lois Burgess, Lecturer in Information Systems (Health Informatics)
  • Jason Sargent, Research Assistant (Health Informatics)

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    AHSRI Staff
     

     Kathy Eagar, Professor and Director of the AHSRI (email)

    Professor Eagar is Director of the Institute and is involved in all aspects of the Institute’s work. Kathy has over twenty five years experience in the health and community care systems, during which she has divided her time almost equally between being a clinician, a senior manager and a health academic.

     Robert Gordon, Associate Professor (Health Services Research) (email)

    Robert Gordon’s full-time position at AHSRI supports research projects in sub and non-acute care, casemix development, community health classification and health financing. Rob undertakes the day to day management of the Institute and directly manages many of its projects.

     Elizabeth Cuthbert, Business Manager (email)

    Elizabeth joined the Institute in 2003 as the full time Business Manager. Elizabeth is responsible for managing the Institute’s finances, negotiating all Institute contracts, and managing the Institute’s IT requirements. She is also responsible for coordinating the development of refinements to SNAPshot, an integrated software package developed and managed by the Institute.

     Ian Ring, Professor (Public Health) (email)

    Ian Ring is a part-time Professorial Fellow-Academic Development, at the AHSRI. Ian was previously Principle Medical Epidemiologist and Executive Director of the Health Information Branch at Qld Health and had also been Head of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, and Foundation Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute at ANU. He is a medical graduate with qualifications in epidemiology and public health. His current research interests are particularly in Indigenous health and Cardiovascular health. His main role is to assist in strengthening the research capacity of the Institute.

     Cheryl Blissett, Administrative Officer (email)

    Cheryl Blissett joined the AHSRI in March 2006 and is an Administration Officer.  Cheryl is currently managing a number of specific administrative projects and also provides administrative support to the Business Manager and to various research projects within the Institute. 

     Alex Verdon, Administrative Assistant (email)

    Alex joined the AHSRI in March 2007 and performs PA duties for the Director of the Institute, as well as providing administrative support for the Institute generally.

    Moira Buckley, Receptionist (email)

    Moira joined AHSRI in July 2012 and provides reception and administrative support. Moira has worked for the NSW State Government for the past 12 years in NSW Department of Education and more recently at Community Services undertaking customer service and administrative duties.

     Rebecca Cook, Librarian (email)

    Rebecca joined AHSRI in February 2011. Rebecca is a librarian with nearly 20 years experience in both local and state government libraries, and has spent the last 8 years working for a national law firm as a Research Librarian. Rebecca’s role is to manage the Insitute's resources and assist in the preservation of AHSRI outputs, and to provide a range of research support for the various groups within the Institute.

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    Centre for Health Service Development

     
     Kathleen Clapham, Professor (Indigenous Health) (email)

    Kathleen joined the Institute in 2011. She holds a BA (Hons First Class) and PhD in Anthropology and has over 25 years experience as an academic in higher education, where she specialises in Indigenous health research and education. Prior to joining the Institute she was the Director of the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at the University of Wollongong. Kathleen has been Chief Investigator on NHMRC and ARC funded and other studies with an Indigenous health focus. Her research interests include: social determinants of health; Indigenous injury prevention and safety promotion; Indigenous child health and resilience; and Indigenous health workforce development.

     Simon Eckermann, Professor (Health Economics) (email)

    Professor Eckermann is Professor of Health Economics at the University of Wollongong and a member of the Australian Health Services Research Institute.  Simon has extensive experience in teaching and applying decision analytic methods for economic analysis in Health Technology Assessment.

     Gary Eckstein, Senior Research Fellow (Medical Demography) (email)

    Dr Gary Eckstein holds part-time positions with the CHSD and the Health Services Research Group, University of Newcastle. Gary participates as a senior researcher developing projects in health demography, and providing expert statistical advice in the areas of health financing and resource distribution.

     Malcolm Masso, Senior Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)

    Malcolm Masso is a Senior Research Fellow at the CHSD. Prior to joining the Centre he worked for over 25 years in the health system as a clinician and manager, including 15 years of executive responsibility for clinical services in both large and small hospitals in rural and metropolitan areas. He has academic qualifications in economics, nursing administration and public health. Click here for more information.

     Karen Quinsey, Senior Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)

    Karen Quinsey is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Service Development who recently changed from part time to full time. Karen has worked in the health system in occupational therapy, community health and health service improvement, as both a clinican and a manager. Her academic qualifications are in Occupational Therapy and Public Health. Karen has been at the Centre for about ten years working on a range of evaluation projects, including three national palliative care programs.

     Cristina Thompson, Senior Research Fellow (Health Service Research) (email)  

    Cristina Thompson joined CHSD in July 2008.  In the full-time position of Senior Research Fellow, she supports research projects in the areas of health policy, strategy, service development and planning.  Prior to joining the Centre Cristina worked for over 25 years in the health system as a clinician and senior manager, in both rural and metropolitan health settings.  Her most recent role included responsibility for strategy, planning and corporate development for a major NSW Area Health Service. Cristina trained as a Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife and has academic qualifications in Sociology, Public Sector and Business Administration.

     Cathy Duncan, Research Fellow (email)  

    Cathy Duncan joined AHSRI in 2013. Prior to joining the Institute, Cathy worked for the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing for almost 10 years in both Canberra and Tasmania in a range of program management and policy positions including in aged care, primary care and rural health. Cathy has academic qualifications in Social Work and worked for 13 years as a Social Worker in both Sydney and on the South Coast of NSW in acute care, rehabilitation and aged care settings. Cathy is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Her interests include aged care assessment, rural and remote health, community capacity building and the interface between acute care, primary care and aged care.

     Dave Fildes, Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)

    Dave Fildes holds a full time position at the CHSD. He conducts literature reviews, contributing to the development of policy options and preparing reports for Government agencies across a range of subject areas as part of his research at the Centre. He is involved in a variety of CHSD projects including palliative care service delivery and community development and assessment. Dave has tertiary qualifications in Communication and Cultural Studies, Politics and Public Health.

     Peter Samsa, Research Fellow (Health Informatics) (email)

    Peter Samsa joined the Centre in 2005 after working for the Council of Social Service of NSW and a variety of non-Government human service organisations. His interests include health informatics, and data standards for health and human services. He has academic qualifications in Social Work, and Information and Communication Technology.

     Hilarie Tardif, Research Fellow (email)

     Hilarie joined AHSRI in 2013 where her primary role is the management and implementation of ePPOC: the electronic Persistent Pain Outcome Collaboration.  Prior to joining the Institute, Hilarie worked in a variety of not-for-profit and government roles with an emphasis on measuring outcomes in the mental health sector.  More recently she managed research projects using linked data in the WA Data Linkage Unit and the NSW Centre for Health Record Linkage.  Hilarie has academic qualifications in psychology, biochemistry and psychophysiology.

     Anita Westera, Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)

    Anita Westera joined the CHSD on a part-time basis in July 2005. Anita has over 20 years experience working in the health, aged and community care sectors, as a Registered Nurse as well as policy officer for the Commonwealth and NSW Governments and advisor for the former NSW Minister of Ageing. Anita is a member of the Board of UnitingCare Ageing, the largest provider of aged care services in NSW.

     Kate Williams, Research Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)

    Kathryn (Kate) Williams has qualifications in psychology and journalism. Since joining the CHSD on a part-time basis in 2004, Kate has contributed to a variety of projects, including literature reviews, health program and palliative care evaluation, the design and pilot testing of tools for priority setting and a catalogue of evidence-based strategies for the Best Start early intervention program.

     Pam Grootemaat, Associate Fellow (Health Services Research) (email)

    Pam Grootemaat joined the CHSD on a full-time basis in July 2005. Pam previously worked in research and evaluation for mental health promotion. She has academic qualifications in nutrition and public health. Pam supports research projects in health system classification, policy and funding reform within health and community care services.

     Darcy Morris, Administrative Assistant/Project Support (email)

    Darcy provides high level project and administrative support to AHSRI as a whole, as well as the Centre and also to various specific projects.

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    Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre

     
     J.E. (Ben) Marosszeky, Associate Professor and Clinical Director of AROC (email)

    Associate Professor Ben Marosszeky took up a part-time position at AHSRI in 2002 as the inaugural Clinical Director of AROC. He is also the Director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Westmead Hospital, a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at University of Sydney and a Councillor of the World Forum of Neurological Rehabilitation. Dr Marosszeky brings to the AHSRI wide ranging and internationally recognised clinical experience in rehabilitation medicine.

     Frances Simmonds, Senior Research Fellow (AROC Manager) (email)

    Frances Simmonds is appointed as the AROC Manager, and commenced duties with AHSRI in mid January 2006. Frances brings to AHSRI extensive health sector experience at a senior level in both the public and private sectors. Most recently, Frances has been employed as the National Director, Funder Relations for the Sisters of Charity Health Service. During the last 12 years, Frances has filled several senior executive roles, all of which have involved management of national projects or functions. As the AROC Manager, Frances has key responsibility for managing the project on a day to day basis.

     Jacquelin Capell, Research Fellow (AROC) (email)

    Jacquelin joined the AHSRI team on a part-time basis in February 2011. Her background is in physiotherapy, adult education and research. Jacquelin has a particular focus on expanding participation in AROC's ambulatory data collection.

     Janet Law, Research Fellow (AROC) (email)

    Janet is an occupational therapist who also works at Royal Ryde Rehabilitation Centre. Janet  joined AHSRI in 2007 and has worked with AROC as a Master FIM trainer and has taken a lead role in providing the AROC impairment specific benchmarking  workshops.

     Tara Stevermuer, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Tara Stevermuer is a full time member of AHSRI where she is the AROC Data Manager and AHSRI website administrator. Tara is also involved in various AHSRI projects, ranging from community health and community care surveys, evaluation of Community Health Asthma Program (CHAP), to building databases to assist prioritisation for service for NSW Home Care and NSW Provision of Appliances for Disabled People (PADP). Tara brings extensive statistical and database management skills to AHSRI. Tara holds a conjoint appointment as lecturer to the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW.

     Julie de Clouet, FIM Manager & Adminstrative Support (AROC) (email)

    Julie joined the AHSRI in March 2007 as the FIM Manager, and also provides administrative support for AROC.

    Lewis Green, Administrative Assistant (email)

    Lewis Joined the CHSD in 2010 and works part time as an administrative assistant. Lewis’ main roles are with AROC assisting with data entry and providing general administrative support.

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    Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

     
    Malcolm Masso, PCOC National Director (email)

    Malcolm Masso is the PCOC National Director. Prior to joining PCOC he worked for over 25 years in the health system as a clinician and manager, including 15 years of executive responsibility for clinical services in both large and small hospitals in rural and metropolitan areas. He has academic qualifications in economics, nursing administration and public health. Click here for more information.

     Maree Banfield, Senior Research Fellow (Palliative Care - PCOC) (email)

    Maree Banfield is the National Education and Quality Improvement Manager for the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC).  Maree joined CHSD in 2004 on a practitioner fellowship 1 day a week from her position as Palliative Care Service Manager at Calvary Health Care, Sydney.  A full-time secondment was arranged in 2007 to enable Maree to assume the position of the national education and training manager for PCOC.  In September 2008 Maree resigned from Calvary and was appointed Senior Research Fellow - Palliative Care.  Maree is also a Registered Nurse and Certified Midwife and brings to AHSRI extensive experience at an executive and clinical level in the palliative care sector of the health care system. 

    Sabina Clapham, Research Fellow (PCOC) (email)

    Sabina has a Masters in Clinical Nursing, a specialty certificate in palliative care nursing and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Sabina has worked in palliative care inpatient nursing and a number of palliative care education positions and projects. Sabina joined CHSD in 2008 to assist with the development and delivery of PCOC education. Sabina has had ongoing involvement with PCOC since 2008 and re-joined the PCOC team in 2011 to provide education and support to NSW and ACT health services.

     Linda Foskett, Administrative Officer (PCOC) (email)

    Linda joined the AHSRI in March 2009 and provides administrative support to the PCOC.

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    National Casemix and Classification Centre

     
    Jenny McNamee - Director NCCC (email) 

    Jenny joined the NCCC in September 2010. Her most recent management experience is in the areas of health system performance management, casemix / clinical costing and episode based funding in the NSW public health sector. For the 10 years prior to 2008, Jenny managed casemix and performance at Sydney Children’s Hospital. Here she developed a specialisation in paediatric casemix issues, and worked closely with Children’s Hospital’s Australasia in the establishment of a national performance and casemix benchmarking program and was involved in a number of paediatric casemix development activities.

    In this role, Jenny will be responsible for the effective co-ordination of the 2012 AR-DRG Classification System Development Program, being managed on behalf of the University of Wollongong under contract to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

    Anne Elsworthy, ICD-10-AM / ACHI Coordinator (NCCC) (email) 

    Anne has worked in the NSW public health system including roles as Coding Manger, Medical Record Manager and Patient and Information Services Manager. For the past four years she has worked at the National Centre for Classification in Health, principally coordinating and publishing responses to ICD-10-AM coding queries, ICD-10-AM content development and education.

    Sue Claessen, ICD Education Coordinator (NCCC) (email)

    Susan holds a Bachelor of Health Science (Health Information Management) from the Queensland University of Technology. She has worked in the NSW public health system for the past 10 years in the roles of Clinical Coder, Coding Manager and Area Clinical Coding Coordinator. She joined NCCC in July 2011 as the ICD Education Coordinator.

    Patricia Saad, Classification Developer (NCCC) (email)

    Patricia has extensive and unique experience in the development, support and migration of classifications, termsets and terminologies. Patricia worked on the first edition of ICD-10-AM which involved preparation of content for the disease classification and extension of the Medicare Benefits Schedule to create the new Australian procedure classification ACHI. Patricia has extended her range of skills and knowledge over the last several years in the area of clinical termset development, authoring and migration.

    Lwin Marla Tun, Classification Developer (NCCC) (email) 

    Marla's background is in medicine and health information management. She has extensive experience in the content development of ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS classification and is responsible for producing electronic code lists and mapping tables. She also has experience in NSW public health system working on casemix projects and data submissions to state and national forums on casemix and costing.

    Irene Soo, Classification Developer (NCCC) (email) 

    Irene holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Health Information Management) Honours degree. Her research project focused on the quality of ICD-10-AM activity codes and their usage in hospital morbidity data. Irene has worked at the National Centre for Classification in Health at the University of Sydney as a Classification Support Officer for the past year and previously as a GP Data Coder at the Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney.

    Carol Loggie, Classification Developer (NCCC) (email)

    Carol has many years experience working as a health information manager in the private health system. These roles have variously incorporated clinical coding, auditing, training and casemix review. She has also previously worked at a major NSW public hospital in the role of coding manager. Carol joined the NCCC in September 2011.

    Nicole Rankin, Classification Developer (NCCC) (email)

    Nicole joined the NCCC in July 2011 as a classification developer. Prior to joining the NCCC, Nicole was seconded for 2 years to the Clinical Cancer Registry Project (SESIAHS). Before that Nicole has worked in the fields of casemix, costing, data analysis and performance reporting for the Sydney Children's and Royal Women's Hospitals. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Health Information Management from Sydney University.

    Yan Guo, Classification Developer (NCCC) (email)

    Yan has a background in internal medicine and coding. Yan joined the NCCC as classification developer in December 2010, prior to this, she worked as as classification support officer at the NCCH, a data manager at the NHMRC clinical trials centre and a clinical coder. Prior to coming to Australia, Yan was a physician in China.

    Steve Cartwright, ICD Systems Manager (email)

    Steve holds a degree in Electrical Engineering as well as an MBA. His background spans a range of industries including engineering consulting, energy and construction. For the past 14 years he has worked in the IT industry as a software developer.

    Danni Masso, Senior Administrative Assistant (NCCC) (email)

    Danni joined the NCCC in November 2010 in the role of Senior Administrative Officer on the AR-DRG project. Danni has a background in administrative support in corporate environments, national IT project support and training, as well as information analysis for media industry.

    Glenice Maxwell, Administrative Officer (AR-DRG) (email) 

    Glenice joined AHSRI in May 2010 in the role of Administrative Officer on the AR-DRG project. Glenice has a background in administrative support roles in clinical environments (hospital administration, outpatient clinics, psychiatric unit and medical records) and senior executive support roles in corporate environments in the public and private sectors.

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    Australasian Occupational Science Centre

     
     Alison Wicks, Honorary Research Fellow (Occupational Science) (email)

    Dr Alison Wicks was appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow in January 2005. She is the Founding Director of the Australasian Occupational Science Centre (AOSC) which is a new research centre within CHSD. The AOSC is located at the Shoalhaven Campus in Nowra. Alison is an occupational therapist with 25 years experience as a health practitioner. Since 2000, she has been focusing on research in occupational science. Occupational science is a broad interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of human occupation in relation to health in daily living and with the social classifications economics, policies, systems, culture and geography that govern human occupation. Alison is President of the Australasian Society of Occupational Scientists and Project Leader of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists International Advisory Group: Occupational Science.

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    Centre for Applied Statistics in Health

     
     Janette Green, Senior Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Janette Green’s full-time position provides expert statistical skills on projects, primarily in classification development, benchmarking and outcome measurement. She has applied her statistical skills to a wide range of areas in the health sector, including rehabilitation, mental health and palliative care. In addition, she continues with undergraduate teaching and, from time to time, she runs workshops for health professionals on the use and interpretation of statistics. A new venture in 2005 was to coordinate some international comparisons of rehabilitation data within the International Rehabilitation Outcomes Network.

     Luise Lago, Senior Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Luise Lago is a full-time member of the AHSRI, joining in 2004. Luise supports research projects which involve statistical work including survey design and classifications development. Luise has experience in sample design and data analysis. Her academic qualifications are in Mathematics and Applied Statistics.

     Sonia Bird, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Sonia Bird is a full time member of AHSRI, supporting research projects including Palliative Care and the NSW Clinical Services Redesign Program. Her work involves data management, statistical analysis and report writing. Sonia has tertiary qualifications in Mathematics, Applied Statistics and Finance.

     Megan Blanchard, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Megan Blanchard joined AHSRI in 2010 after working at the Australian Bureau of Statistics.  Megan is a part time Research Fellow supporting projects which involve statistical work including classification development. She has experience in statistical analysis and has worked with very large datasets, including the creation of population estimates and projections.

     Sam Allingham, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Sam studied mathematics and statistics at the University of Wollongong. After graduating in 2007 he went to work in the Time Series Analysis section of  the Australian Bureau of Statistics. While in this position he gained extensive knowledge in survey design and analysis as well as experience in the analysis of seasonal time series. Since starting at the AHSRI in November 2009, Sam has provided statistical support on projects for the Graduate School of Medicine and the Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre. He has also been working with the Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology to analyse the results of a New Zealand Ministry of Health survey.

     Michael Navakatikyan, Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Michael Navakatikyan is a full-time member of CHSD involved in research projects related to the revision of Diagnosis Related Groups. Michael has PhD in Biology and Physiology, BSc in Applied mathematics and MSc in Medical Statistics. Michael’s experience includes environmental health area, animal behaviour and circulation, mathematical modelling of choice and designing algorithms for the analysis of neonatal electroencephalogram.  

    Milena Snoek, Associate Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

     Milena joined the AHSRI team as a Research Fellow in 2012. She has postgraduate qualifications in Statistics and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Sciences (Honours I). Milena has over ten years of industry experience in the higher education and telecommunications sectors, with a focus on data modelling and data analysis.

    Patrick Steele, Associate Research Fellow (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Pat works at AHSRI as part of the CASiH and AROC team, and he brings an IT perspective to the team.

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    Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration

     
     Jan Sansoni, Principal Research Fellow and Director of AHOC (email)

    Jan Sansoni is the Director of the Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration (AHOC). Jan provides research support and education to the health and community industry by assisting individuals, services and government departments with outcome evaluation of health care interventions and services. Through AHOC Jan convenes a national health outcomes conference in Canberra each year, is active in a number of international collaborations concerning health outcomes measurement, and undertakes a range of health outcomes research consultancy activities.

     Emily Sansoni, Research Assistant (email)

    Emily provides research support to AHOC. In particular, she assists with the completion of HRQOL and Health Outcomes measurement projects, as well as the writing and editing of manuscripts.

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    AHSRI Affiliates

     
     Raymond Chambers, Professor (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Professor Chambers' research interests include: Sample Survey Design and Analysis; Robust Statistical Methods; Graphical Methods in Statistics; Computer Intensive Statistical Methods; Statistical Modelling and Inference; Longitudinal Data Analysis; and Analysis of Computer-Linked Data.

     Sara Dolnicar, Professor (Management and Marketing) (email)

    Sara Dolnicar was appointed Assistant Professor at the Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) in 1994, where she completed her PhD two years later. Sara  served as Secretary General of the Austrian Society for Applied Research in Tourism, participated in the interdisciplinary research project 'Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science' and conducted a number of contract research projects for the Austrian tourism industry.
    Since July 2002 Sara has been working at the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong where she is currently serving as Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Commerce.

     Don Lewis, Professor (Health Economics) (email)

    Professor Lewis is now retired as Professor of Economics and Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Commerce. Don joined the Institute to assist future health research from his perspective as a former President of the Australian Health Economics Society (1994 to 1999) and his research interests in health economics include environmental health, program evaluation and private health insurance.

     Peter Eklund, Professor and Head of Information Systems (Health Informatics) (email)

    Professor Eklund is the Chair of Information Systems at the University of Wollongong. Peter's interests are in Health Informatics modelling and the management of electronic healthcare documents and terminologies.

     John Glynn, Professor and Dean of Sydney Business School (email)

    Professor John Glynn is Dean of the Sydney Business School. Professor Glynn has wide international experience in management development programs. He is an advisor to a number of companies, government agencies and departments including the National Audit Office (UK), the Australian Audit Office, the NSW Parliament's Public Accounts Committee and the OECD.
    Professor Glynn has particular interests and expertise in the areas of strategy formulation management of change, financial management and performance appraisal across all levels of the public and private sector. He teaches accounting, financial management, public sector management and corporate strategy. His research interests are primarily public sector financial management and the management of change. Previous academic appointments in the UK were at the Universities of Exeter and Kent.

     David Steel, Professor (Applied Statistics) (email)

    David Steel is Professor in Statistics, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong. His research interests include survey methods, statistical design and analysis for survey, census and aggregate data.  Prof Steel has active links with industry, which includes projects with ABS, NZ Ministry of Health, NSW Health and Statistics New Zealand. 

     Matthew Wand, Professor (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Professor Matthew Wand is a Research Professor in Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics which is in the Faculty of Informatics at University of Wollongong.

     Robert Clark, Senior Lecturer (Applied Statistics) (email)

    Robert joined the University of Wollongong in 2004 as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics. His research interests are in survey sampling, sample design, sampling rare populations, analysis of complex survey data and spatial statistics.

     Roy Harvey, Associate Professor (Health Economics) (email)

    Associate Professor Roy Harvey’s research interests focus on outcomes data and its use in benchmarking and health financing research. Roy is also a health policy adviser to the Australian Council of Social Service and, as part of that role, convenor of the Access to Medicines Consortium (comprising ACOSS, Medicines Australia, Australian Medical Association, Consumers' Health Forum and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, a group concerned with barriers to access to medicines). Since 1995, Roy has been involved in consultancies on health financing for the World Bank and AusAID in Eastern Europe, South East Asia and China. Roy holds a fractional position at the CHSD.

     Helen Hasan, Associate Professor (Economics and Information Systems) (email)

    Dr. Helen Hasan is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Wollongong. She has a Masters in Physics followed by a PhD in Information Systems, is a member of the Australian Standards Committees on Knowledge Management and Small-Medium Enterprises, and chairs the board of CTC@Ulladulla, part of the Networking the Nation initiative. She has published extensively in the areas of Human Computer Interaction, Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Knowledge Management (KM), including a new book “Australian Studies in Knowledge Management, and is currently supervising, 12 research students in these areas. Helen is Director of the Activity Theory Usability Laboratory at the University of Wollongong, Director of the Eureka Connection, a not-for-profit network that provides a forum for generating, sharing, developing and testing new ideas and Director of the cross-institutional Socio-Technical Activity Research (STAR) Group on Knowledge Management that is funded, for the three years, by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council.

     Heather Yeatman, Associate Professor (Policy Research) (email)

    Dr Heather Yeatman is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public Health and undertakes her research as a member of the CHSD. Within the Centre, Heather has a key role in work on healthy public policy, with a specific focus on food policy, and how this translates into standards and regulation.

     Damian Ryan, Honorary Senior Lecturer (Health Informatics) (email)

    Dr. Ryan is the Director of TACT at the South East Illawarra Area Health Service and partner investigator in the ePOC ARC Linkage grant investigating the use of PDAs to collect clinical data in the health in the home setting.

     Lois Burgess, Lecturer in Information Systems (Health Informatics) (email)

    Lois is a Chief investigator on the ePOC ARC Linkage grant which investigates the use of PDA's as a platform for data collection in the health in the home.

     Jason Sargent, Research Assistant (Health Informatics) (email)

    Jason is a full-time research assistant funded by the ARC working on the ePOC ARC Linkage grant.

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    AHSRI Honorary Fellows

    In addition to core staff, the AHSRI has a number of other honorary fellows who collaborate with us on specific research projects and play a key role in forging links between the AHSRI and the health industry.

    Honorary fellows include:

     
  • Dr Andrew Bezzina, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
  • Dr Thomas Trauer, University of Melbourne
  • Mr Tim Coombs, Australian Mental Health Outcomes Classification Network
  • Dr Roslyn Poulos, University of NSW
  • Ms Rebekkah Middleton, Illawarra Health
  • Ms Tineke Robinson, Independent Consultant
  • Dr Mark Rix, Graduate School of Business (University of Wollongong)
  • Ms Carla Cranny, Independent Consultant
  • Dr Ngaire Brown, Menzies School of Health Research
  • Dr Roger Dunston, Sydney Medical School, University of Technology Sydney
  • Mr Tom Cleary, OPSM
  • Professor David Currow, Flinders University of South Australia
  • Dr Christopher Poulos, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
  • Ms Mary Ellen Burke, Independent Consultant
  • Professor Robert Gibberd, University of Newcastle

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Last reviewed: 16 May, 2013