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Biography
Overview
Associate Professor Bonny is Interim Deputy Director at the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) (2023 -). Previously she was an Associate Professor and Senior Research fellow at MUCHE (2015-2022), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) (2009-2015). She has also worked at AstraZeneca in the United Kingdom as a senior health economist, Access Economics in Canberra as a senior economist, and the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Centre at the Australian National University as an Assistant researcher.
Experience
A/Prof Parkinson’s expertise is in the field of health economics, especially regarding pharmaceutical policy, economic evaluation methodology, cancer, hearing, and precision medicine. She has conducted or supervised economic evaluations of many healthcare interventions, including medicines (e.g. trastuzumab, triptans, the oral contraceptive pill), diagnostics (e.g. prostate specific membrane antigen positron emissions tomography/computed tomography (PSMA PET/CT), screening for lynch syndrome and hearing loss), medical devices (e.g. Cochlear implants), and digital technologies (e.g. BRECONDA and SoundScouts). This has included the application of both within-trial analysis, economic modelling, analysis of linked healthcare administrative data, and the development of algorithms to map quality of life data to health state utilities values. She currently leads the health technology assessment stream, and has been involved in over 60 evaluations of submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), 6 evaluations of submissions to the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) and the National Diabetes Subsidy Scheme (NDSS) since 2009. To date, she has been the recipient of career research funding of over $27.0 million spread over 26 grants and has 39 peer-reviewed journal articles.
She was a member of the Ezetimibe Review Reference Group for the Australian Government Department of Health (2016-2017), and is currently a member of the NSW Cancer Council’s Pathways Scientific Advisory Committee on Colorectal Cancer and Lynch Syndrome (2018 -) and the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance Health Economics Alongside Trials Special Interest Group (ACTA HEAT SIG). She is currently on the editorial board of Pharmacoeconomics, and is an associate editor of Oxford Open Economics.
Her PhD was on “Pharmaceutical Policy in Australia: Developing Methods to Manage Uncertainty in Health Technology Assessment”, for which she received the UTS Chancellor’s List award in 2016. She's also been awarded the Australian Health Economics Society Rising Star award (2022), the Macquarie University Academic Staff Award for Excellence in Research (Healthy People) (2017), and the UTS Research Excellence Through Partnership award (2013).
Bonny has excellent skills in presenting complex economic research in ways that captivates an audience’s attention and is understandable. She teaches health economics as part of the Masters of Public Health (2017-) and regularly teaches short courses on economic evaluation.
Education/Academic qualification
Health Economics, Doctor of philosophy
2011 → 2014
Award Date: 1 Jan 2015
Health Economics, Master of Science, University of York
2006 → 2007
Award Date: 1 Jan 2008
Economics, Econometrics, Bachelor of Economics (Honours), Australian National University
1999 → 2002
Award Date: 1 Jan 2003
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MRFF 2023: Randomised controlled trial of screening patients with Schizophrenia for obstructive sleep apnea using in-laboratory polysomnography or 3-nights of home oximetry.
Grunstein, R., Ellender, C., Marshall, N., Siskind, D., Sharma, R., Yee, B., Lappin, J., Fooken, J., Kairaitis, K., Harris, A., Phillips, C., Lawn, S., Lambert, T., Kalucy, M., Parkinson, B. & Lane, A.
1/01/25 → 31/12/28
Project: Research
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CRCP R16 - (4D Medical led): CRCP : CT VQ: A better pulmonary perfusion test.
O'Meara, T., Jones, C., Parkinson, B. & Rana, R.
21/10/24 → 30/09/27
Project: Research
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MRFF UNSW-led: Targeted, Adaptive Genomics for Ethical, Evidence-based Expansion of Newborn Screening: a type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
Taylor, N., Ungerer, J., Wakefield, C., Bauer, D. C., Shum, B., Parkinson, B., Mazariego, C., Watts, G. F., Peterson, A., McGill, B. C., Jeet, V., Dobbins, T., Pang, J., Downie, L., Bennett, G., Della-Vedova, J., Wilgen, U., Martin, A. C., Srinivasan, S., Lynch, M., Mcgill, J., Nowak, K. J., Kostner, K. M. & Wainwright, C. E.
14/02/24 → 13/02/27
Project: Research
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Building on newborn hearing screening success: towards national standards and data management
Sung, V., Beswick, R., Kong, K., Wake, M., Leigh, G., Ching, T., Kluk, K., Parkinson, B., King, A., Shepherd, D., Porter, A., Casey, B., Poulakis, Z., McMahon, C., Gardner-Berry, K., Dettman, S., Lees, H., Harkus, S., Iseli, C. & Liddle, K.
4/09/23 → 3/09/26
Project: Research
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Aggregate distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: a novel tool for health economic evaluation to inform resource allocation
Jiang, S., Li, B., Parkinson, B., Li, S. & Gu, Y., 16 Apr 2025, In: Global Health Research and Policy. 10, 1, p. 1-5 5 p., 17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/opinion › peer-review
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Does childhood cochlear implantation spill over to carers’ employment status?
Sharma, R., Tani, M., Cheng, Z., Ching, T. Y. C., Marnane, V., Mendolia, S. & Parkinson, B., Mar 2025, In: Ear and Hearing. 46, 2, p. 277-285 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Secondary risk-reducing strategies for contralateral breast cancer in BRCA1/2 variant carriers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yu, J., Jiang, S., Liu, T., Gao, Y., Ma, X., Fekadu, G., Xia, Y., Parkinson, B., Ming, W. & Gu, Y., Jan 2025, In: Advances in Therapy. 42, 1, p. 106-131 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Unravelling the association between uncertainties in model-based economic analysis and funding recommendations of medicines in Australia
Chen, Q., Hoyle, M., Jeet, V., Gu, Y., Sinha, K. & Parkinson, B., Mar 2025, In: PharmacoEconomics. 43, 3, p. 283–296 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A qualitative exploration of the over-the-counter availability of oral contraceptive pills in Australia
Ahmed, Z., Gu, Y., Sinha, K., Mutowo, M., Gauld, N. & Parkinson, B., Jun 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 6, p. 1-19 19 p., e0305085.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile47 Downloads (Pure)
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The use of the cost minimisation approach in Health Technology Assessment submissions to the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
Tirrell, Z. (Owner), Lybrand, S. (Contributor), Norman, A. (Contributor), Hoyle, M. (Contributor) & Parkinson, B. (Contributor), Macquarie University, 1 Aug 2024
DOI: 10.25949/26308576.v1
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Prizes
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2019 Macquarie Business School Impact Competition, Enhancing medicine scheduling decisions through economics
Parkinson, Bonny (Recipient), 1 Jan 2020
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2019 Macquarie Business School Impact Competition, Improving health and spending money wisely: evaluating medicines and vaccines for the Australian Government
Cutler, Henry (Recipient), Parkinson, Bonny (Recipient) & Hoyle, Martin (Recipient), 1 Jan 2020
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2022 Macquarie Business School Impact Competition, Improving Health and Spending Money Wisely: Evaluating Medical Tests, Devices, Procedures for the Australian Government
Hoyle, Martin (Recipient), Cutler, Henry (Recipient), Parkinson, Bonny (Recipient), Norman, Alicia (Recipient), Jeet, Varinder (Recipient), Seil, Elizabeth (Recipient), Sharma, Rajan (Recipient), Song, Rachel (Recipient), Ahumada Canale, Antonio (Recipient), Rana, Rezwanul (Recipient), Mumford, Virginia (Recipient) & Amin, Janaki (Recipient), 2022
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Academic Staff Awards, Excellence in Research: Five Future-shaping Research Priorities (Healthy People)
Parkinson, Bonny (Recipient), 30 Nov 2017
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Australian Health Economics Society Rising Star Award
Parkinson, Bonny (Recipient), 21 Sept 2022
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HTA in the era of precision medicine
Bonny Parkinson (Speaker)
8 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Jongsay Yong
Bonny Parkinson (Host) & Yuanyuan Gu (Host)
May 2024Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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The long-term hospital costs of women who experience intimate partner violence
Bonny Parkinson (Speaker)
19 Sept 2024 → 20 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Upward sound: The cost-effectiveness of upgrading cochlear implant sound processors in the Australian Hearing Services Program
Bonny Parkinson (Speaker)
Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Upward sound: The cost-effectiveness of upgrading cochlear implant sound processors and other hearing health economics research
Bonny Parkinson (Speaker)
21 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Australia’s PBS means consumers pay less for expensive medicines. Here’s how this system works
20/03/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Should pharmacists be able to provide the pill over the counter without a script? We asked 5 experts
21/02/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Medicine Shortages: Interview on ABC News Radio
7/09/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Medicine shortages an ongoing issue despite stockhold rules, advocates say
6/09/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Intimate partner violence leads to a lifetime of increased health costs
2/12/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Impacts
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Australian technology detecting hearing loss in children
Mutsa Mutowo (Participant), Henry Cutler (Participant), Bonny Parkinson (Participant), Huaxia Song (Participant), Ross Bowman (Participant), Harvey Dillon (Participant) & Carolyn Mee (Participant)
Impact: Policy impacts, Quality of life impacts, Society impacts
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Enhancing medicine scheduling decisions through economics
Bonny Parkinson (Participant), Henry Cutler (Participant), Mutsa Mutowo (Participant), Natalie Gauld (Participant), Virginia Mumford (Participant) & Philip Haywood (Participant)
Impact: Policy impacts, Economy impacts, Quality of life impacts
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Improving health and spending money wisely: evaluating medical tests, devices, procedures for the Australian Government
Martin Hoyle (Participant), Henry Cutler (Participant), Bonny Parkinson (Participant), Alicia Norman (Participant), Varinder Jeet (Participant), Elizabeth Seil (Participant), Rajan Sharma (Participant), Huaxia Song (Participant), Antonio Ahumada Canale (Participant), Rezwanul Rana (Participant), Virginia Mumford (Participant) & Janaki Amin (Participant)
Impact: Health impacts, Economy impacts, Policy impacts
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Improving health and spending money wisely: evaluating medicines and vaccines for the Australian Government
Henry Cutler (Participant), Bonny Parkinson (Participant), Martin Hoyle (Participant), Mutsa Mutowo (Participant), Huaxia Song (Participant), Andrew Partington (Participant), Varinder Jeet (Participant), Elizabeth Seil (Participant), Alicia Norman (Participant), Virginia Mumford (Participant), Sanjyot Vagholkar (Participant), Lisa Pont (Participant) & Janaki Amin (Participant)
Impact: Quality of life impacts, Economy impacts, Policy impacts