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Biography
Henry is the inaugural director of the Centre for the Health Economy at Macquarie University (MUCHE), currently leading a team of 14 health economics researchers, three PhD students and support staff.
He is an applied health economist with extensive skills in evaluating real world problems, having undertaken a consulting role to government and non-government organisations for 15 years.
His work uses a variety of quantitative techniques, including economic evaluation, data analytics, choice modelling, panel data econometrics, Markov modelling, decision tree analysis, geospatial mapping, and survey design and implementation.
Henry has led close to 100 health economics research projects over the last 15 years, with funding associated with these projects totalling approximately $8.7 million. He is currently chief investigator on several MRFF and NHMRC funded projects totalling $8.3 million and is associated with the NHMRC Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability, two NHMRC Centres for Research Excellence in Digital Health and Suicide Prevention, and the Digital Health CRC. Henry is also an affiliated researcher within the Centre for Emotional Health and the Centre for Hearing Education Application Research at Macquarie University.
He has also gained research experience across a broad health care base. This includes cancer, visual impairment, dementia, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, road trauma, sleep disorders, mental health, hearing, pathology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, aged care, integrated care, digital health and hospitals.
He has contributed significantly to media over the last five years, including Australian Financial Review, The Australian, ABC News, ABC Radio National, ABC’s Lateline, ABC’s The Business, BRW, In the Black, Medical Observer, Australian Doctor, Aged Care Insight, Australian Ageing Agenda, and Hospital and Ageing.
Prior to joining MUCHE, Henry led the health economics team at KPMG, and was head of the Sydney Health Economics and Social Policy team for Access Economics. He also worked as a senior economic consultant the Centre for International Economics for five years, and spent eight years in the debt, equity and derivative markets, both in Australia and the UK.
Research interests
Health Economics
Quantitative Analysis
Health and Aged Care policy evaluation
Economic evaluation
Research engagement
Australian Health Economics Association
International Health Economics Association
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University
Centre for Implementation of Hearing Research (iHEAR)
Macquarie University Centre for Reading
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention
NHMRC Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability
Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre
Education/Academic qualification
Economics, PhD, The University of New South Wales
Master of Economics, University of Sydney
Economics, Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney
External positions
Committee Member, LifeSpan Research and Advisory Committee, Black Dog Institute
Committee Member, Innovation Education and Training (RITE) Committee, Northern Sydney Local Health District
Expert Advisory Panel Member - Osteoporosis, The Sax Institute
Expert Advisory Panel Member - Cardiovascular Disease , The Sax Institute
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EQ-5D with the hearing “bolt-on” items: developing a new quality of life measure for hearing impairment
Gu, Y., Cutler, H., Parkinson, B., Sinha, K., Dawes, P., Sharma, R., Brinson, M. B., Gonzalo, F., Quadri, H. & Soytemiz, A.
7/02/22 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Hearing impairment in adults: a longitudinal study (HALOS)
Gopinath, B., McAlpine, D., McMahon, C., Sherman, K., Braithwaite, J., Tran, Y., Cutler, H., Leigh, G., Rapport, F., Wuthrich, V., Amin, J., Mitchell, R., Garcia, P., Buchholz, J., Ferguson, M., Sinha, K. & Tang, D.
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (PBAC) AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY RELATED SUBMISSIONS
Cutler, H., Hoyle, M., Parkinson, B., Jeet, V., Norman, A., Seil, E., Sharma, R., Song, R., Ahumada Canale, A., Mumford, V., Vagholkar, S., Pont, L. G., Amin, J., Gu, Y., Schroeder, L. & Soytemiz, A.
1/07/21 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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UNSW Led - MRFF MMM: Developing a Comprehensive Care Pathway For those at Risk of Suicide But Not in Care: The Under the Radar Project - MRFF Million Minds Mission Suicide Prevention
Christensen, H. M., Harvey, S., Carter, G., Venkatesh, S., Boydell, K., Cutler, H., Kneebone, I., Newton-John, T., Han, J., Huckvale, K. & Soytemiz, A.
1/07/20 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing priority setting and resource allocation tools in hospital decisions: A systematic review
Ahumada-Canale, A., Jeet, V., Bilgrami, A., Seil, E., Gu, Y. & Cutler, H., Apr 2023, In: Social Science and Medicine. 322, p. 1-22 22 p., 115790.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experience-based codesign approach to improve care in Australian emergency departments for complex consumer cohorts: the MyED project protocol, Stages 1.1-1.3
Cheek, C., Hayba, N., Richardson, L., Austin, E. E., Francis Auton, E., Safi, M., Ransolin, N., Vukasovic, M., De Los Santos, A., Murphy, M., Harrison, R., Churruca, K., Long, J. C., Hibbert, P. D., Carrigan, A., Newman, B., Hutchinson, K., Mitchell, R., Cutler, H., Holt, L., & 11 others, 5 Jul 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 7, p. 1-8 8 p., e072908.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How temporal patterns of medication adherence to antidepressants, bisphosphonates and statins are associated with healthcare cost
Park, K. H., Tickle, L. & Cutler, H., 20 Feb 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Economics. 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mapping the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS-29) to EQ-5D-5L
Aghdaee, M., Gu, Y., Sinha, K., Parkinson, B., Sharma, R. & Cutler, H., Feb 2023, In: PharmacoEconomics. 41, 2, p. 187-198 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Need a bulk-billing GP? Why throwing more money at Medicare isn’t the answer
Cutler, H., 10 Feb 2023, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
Open Access
Prizes
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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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MQBS Impact Story Prize 2023
Cutler, Henry (Recipient), Gu, Yuanyuan (Recipient), Bilgrami, Anam (Recipient), Aghdaee, Mona (Recipient), Hasan, Mostafa (Recipient), Shen, Carl (Recipient) & Partington, Andrew (Recipient), 2023
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Activities
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A roadmap towards scalable value based payments in Australia, Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research
Henry Cutler (Speaker)
21 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Impacts from a novel outcomes based funding approach to commissioning health care
Henry Cutler (Speaker)
Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Should Australia continue to finance aged care using lump sum payments? The evidence so far
Henry Cutler (Speaker)
Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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43rd Annual Australian Health Economics Society Conference
Henry Cutler (Participant)
Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop or event series
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Barriers and facilitators to implementation of priority setting and resource allocation tools: A systematic review
Antonio Ahumada Canale (Speaker), Varinder Jeet (Speaker), Anam Bilgrami (Speaker), Elizabeth Seil (Speaker), Rezwanul Rana (Speaker), Yuanyuan Gu (Speaker) & Henry Cutler (Speaker)
2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
Press/Media
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Cheaper drug for advanced prostate cancer patients
25/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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MUCHE report: Budget represents the beginning of a healthcare reform journey
16/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Is this a big enough shot in the arm for ailing Medicare system?
13/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Here’s why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway
2/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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A roadmap towards scalable value-based payments in Australian healthcare
1/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Impacts
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Australian technology detecting hearing loss in children
Mutsa Mutowo (Participant), Henry Cutler (Participant), Bonny Parkinson (Participant), Rachel 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), Rachel 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), Rachel 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
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Improving the Australian aged care system through robust and policy-relevant research
Henry Cutler (Participant), Yuanyuan Gu (Participant), Anam Bilgrami (Participant), Mona Aghdaee (Participant), Mostafa Hasan (Participant), Carl Shen (Participant) & Andrew Partington (Participant)
Impact: Policy impacts, Society impacts