health economics ← Alison Pearce

Using community preferences to inform policy: Why we shouldn’t rush to use AI in breast cancer screening.

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Apr

23

2025

I’m very excited to share our new paper, showing Australian women are divided on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in breast cancer screening. While AI has the potential to enhance the accuracy of mammogram reviews and reduce healthcare costs, many women remain sceptical. Our study, which used a discrete choice experiment to survey over ...

Work, daily activities and leisure after cancer

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Apr

26

2022

As well as being less likely to work, cancer survivors of working age were more likely to be limited in their daily activities and leisure compared to people who had not had cancer, our latest research finds. Similarly, older cancer survivors (aged over 65) were also more likely to be limited in their leisure pursuits compared ...

Moving my health economics teaching online during COVID19

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May

26

2020

HPOL5000 is a core unit in the Master of Public Health program at the University of Sydney. Anne Marie Thow and I co-coordinate the unit, which covers introductory health policy and health economics. Semester 1 2020 started on the 17th of February and we were excited to have a large cohort of nearly 300 students. ...