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Biography
I am an applied health economist at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI). I joined Macquarie University as a post-doctoral Fellow after being awarded my PhD in 2015 by UNSW, and was promoted to Research Fellow in 2018. I have a unique profile through my previous experience in medicine, financial accounting, investment banking, and regulatory compliance. I qualified as a doctor in 1982 and worked in acute care before changing to a career in finance. I was awarded an MBA in 1987 while working as a financial trader in London, and an MHA in 2006 while working in investment banking in Hong Kong. In 2011 I decided to combine my interests in health and finance through pursuing an academic career in health economics.
My research has used applied health economics, econometrics and implementation science techniques to investigate and evaluate complex interventions across a wide range of health service settings: clinical governance (hospital accreditation), clinical issues (delirium, refractory epilepsy, and motor neurone disease), and medical informatics (electronic medication management systems, and point-of-care testing in rural hospitals).
I have established a strong research output with 26 published peer-reviewed papers, including 8 as first author, since 2011. I am currently evaluating the Delirium Clinical Care Standard in acute care for my NSW Health EMC Fellowship. I hold an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position at the University of Tasmania, and worked at the Centre for Health Economic Research Evaluation at the University of Technology, Sydney during my PhD.
The nature health economics research means that I need to build strong collaborative partnerships to plan and execute projects. This has been aided by my corporate experience in running a global business, and is evidenced by the wide range of grants I have been invited to contribute to. My 10-year goal is to develop a multi-disciplinary research unit to develop successful, evidence based, strategies for implementing patient safety and quality improvements in health care, and establish a robust economic evaluation framework for assessing the longer term impacts of these interventions.
Education/Academic qualification
Health Economics, PhD, The University of New South Wales
2011 → 2015
Health Administration, MHA, The University of New South Wales
2002 → 2006
Finance, MBA, City University Business School
1986 → 1987
Medicine, MBBS, St. Thomas' Hospital, London
1977 → 1982
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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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HESP: Panel of providers of health economics services - Health Economic Service Panel (HESP)
Cutler, H., Hoyle, M., Schroeder, L., Parkinson, B., Gu, Y., Epp, J., Mumford, V., Sinha, K., Gumbie, M., Jeet, V., Song, R., Partington, A., Gu, M., Aghdaee, M., Seil, E. & Norman, A.
23/03/20 → 30/04/23
Project: Research
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Harnessing implementation science, complexity science and evidence-based care to Keep Australians Out of Hospital: leveraging seven natural experiments in New South Wales
Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, J., Day, R., Levesque, J., Mitchell, R., Rapport, F., Cutler, H., Tran, Y., Clay-Williams, R., Watson, D., Arnolda, G., Hibbert, P., Lystad, R., Mumford, V., Long, J., Sarkies, M., Francis-Auton, E., Roberts, N. & Gu, Y.
3/06/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Evaluation of the Delirium Clinical Care Standard
Mumford, V., Westbrook, J., Shehabi, Y., Braithwaite, J. & Potter, M.
1/03/17 → …
Project: Research
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Services for external evaluation of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) and health technology related submissions
Cutler, H., Parkinson, B., McLeod, R., Dalziel, K., Gumbie, M., Mumford, V., Vagholkar, S., Pont, L. G., Song, R., Jeet, V., Hoyle, M., Seil, E., Norman, A., Partington, A. & Gu, Y.
1/11/16 → …
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Aged care residents’ prioritization of care: a mixed-methods study
Ludlow, K., Churruca, K., Mumford, V., Ellis, L. A. & Braithwaite, J., Apr 2021, In: Health Expectations. 24, 2, p. 525-536 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)14 Downloads (Pure) -
Associations between double-checking and medication administration errors: a direct observational study of paediatric inpatients
Westbrook, J. I., Li, L., Raban, M. Z., Woods, A., Koyama, A. K., Baysari, M. T., Day, R. O., McCullagh, C., Prgomet, M., Mumford, V., Dalla-Pozza, L., Gazarian, M., Gates, P. J., Lichtner, V., Barclay, P., Gardo, A., Wiggins, M. & White, L., Apr 2021, In: BMJ Quality and Safety. 30, 4, p. 320-330 11 p., 011473.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Decisions and dilemmas: the context of prioritization dilemmas and influences on staff members’ prioritization decisions in residential aged care
Ludlow, K., Churruca, K., Ellis, L. A., Mumford, V. & Braithwaite, J., Jun 2021, In: Qualitative Health Research. 31, 7, p. 1306-1318 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Home-based, tailored intervention for reducing falls after stroke (FAST): protocol for a randomized trial
Dean, C., Clemson, L., Ada, L., Scrivener, K., Lannin, N., Mikolaizak, S., Day, S., Cusick, A., Gardner, B., Heller, G., Isbel, S., Jones, T., Mumford, V. & Preston, E., Dec 2021, In: International Journal of Stroke. 16, 9, p. 1053-1058 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Unfinished care in residential aged care facilities: an integrative review
Ludlow, K., Churruca, K., Mumford, V., Ellis, L. A., Testa, L., Long, J. C. & Braithwaite, J., 3 Apr 2021, In: Gerontologist. 61, 3, p. e61-e74 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
11 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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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
Prize
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Australian Institute of Health Innovation (Organisational unit)
Karen Hutchinson (Chair), Kate Churruca (Member), Louise Ellis (Member), Virginia Mumford (Member), Magda Raban (Member), Denise Tsiros (Member), Cliff Hughes (Member) & Anam Bilgrami (Member)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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‘How can healthcare work better? Breathless in Macquarie: getting great care for asthma and other conditions’
Teresa Winata (Speaker), Robyn Clay-Williams (Speaker), Louise Wiles (Speaker), Janet Long (Speaker), Frances Rapport (Speaker), Kate Churruca (Speaker), Virginia Mumford (Speaker), Natalie Ayliff (Speaker) & Jeffrey Braithwaite (Speaker)
14 Dec 2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
Press / Media
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Is reclassification of the oral contraceptive pill from prescription to pharmacist-only cost effective? Application of an economic evaluation approach to regulatory decisions
Bonny Parkinson, Mutsa Gumbie, Henry Cutler, Natalie Gauld & Virginia Mumford
23/05/19 → 31/05/19
4 items of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Impacts
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Enhancing medicine scheduling decisions through economics
Bonny Parkinson (Participant), Henry Cutler (Participant), Mutsa Gumbie (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 Gumbie (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