The centre's research activities include the following two major inter-related areas:

• Burden of disease and injury
• Cost-effectiveness

Burden of Disease and Injury projects

Our Burden of Disease and Injury Projects include:

International Projects:

• Global Burden of Disease and Injury Study, 2010

National Projects:

• Australian Burden of Disease and Injury study, 2003
• Burden of Disease and Injury study in Indigenous Australians, 2003

Cost-Effectiveness Projects

Cost-Effectiveness Projects include:

• ACE-Prevention (Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention)
• SPICE (Setting Priorities using Information on Cost-Effectiveness) in Thailand

BODCE provides training in two broad areas: workshops on Health Economic Evaluation (5 days, July) and on Burden of Disease (8 days, Nov-Dec), and university courses.

Annual Workshops

Health Economic Evaluation: Conducting and reporting of modelled evaluations

2012 Workshop Monday 9th July - Friday 13th July

Room 113, Public Health Building, University of Queensland, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Download 2012 Flyer here

Download 2011 Program here (The 2012 programme will be available shortly.)

This intensive 5 day workshop is held in Brisbane at the University of Queensland. It aims to provide researchers, both Australian & international, with the practical skills to conduct a modelled health economic evaluation, from gathering the data, through developing an appropriate model, to reporting the results including sensitivity and uncertainty.

The workshop is a University of Queensland accredited subject for Masters of Public Health and Masters of Health Economics students. This subject is presented as a second semester course annually by the University of Queensland since 2003 and has now been converted to a workshop format to offer the opportunity for training of health economic researchers internationally.

Contact Sarah Calderwood, s.calderwood@uq.edu.au ph (07) 3365 5587 for further information.
 

Practical Aspects of Conducting a National Burden of Disease and Injury Study

Download 2011 flyer here

This intensive 8 day workshop will again be held in Brisbane at the University of Queensland in 2012. It aims to provide researchers, both Australian & international, with the practical skills to conduct a national or sub-national burden of disease study.

The workshop is a University of Queensland accredited subject for Masters of Public Health and Masters of Health Economics students. Workshops have been conducted annually by the University of Queensland since 2003 and have been the only opportunity for training of burden of disease researchers internationally.

Please note that, as numbers are limited, the organisers reserve the right to screen applications.

Contact Sarah Calderwood, s.calderwood@uq.edu.au ph (07) 3365 5587 for further information.

University courses (subjects) and programs

The centre is involved in the delivery of several undergraduate and postgraduate courses (subjects), including:
Masters of Public Health courses (subjects)

• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Control of non-communicable disease

Health Economics Programs at UQ

• Graduate Certificate in Health Economics
• Graduate Diploma in Health Economics
• Master of Health Economics
• Master of Health Economics (Advanced)

For further information go to:
http://www.uq.edu.au/study/program.html?acad_prog=5418
 

For publications in peer-reviewed journals, please see 'BoDCE staff'

Research reports

Burden of Disease and Injury

The original Australian burden of disease and injury studies (AIHW 1999 , DHS 1999a , DHS 1999b ) provided the first comprehensive overview of health status in Australia in 1996. A second study was completed in 2007 with results for the total Australian population and the Indigenous population pertaining to the year 2003. (click here for the full report).

Australian national publications:

1. The Burden of Disease and Injury study in Australia

2. Investigating Australia's Burden of Disease

3. The Burden of disease and injury in Australia: Time for action. Another report or the beginning of a new era?

Australian state & territory publications:

1. Burden of Disease and Injury in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations in the Northern Territory

2. Victorian Burden of Disease Study – Mortality

3. Victorian Burden of Disease Study – 2001

4. Queensland Burden of Disease and Injury Study

5. WA Burden of Disease Study Bulletin No. 1

6. Western Australia Burden of Disease Study - Mortality 2000 (WA Department of Health, 2003)

7. Western Australia Burden of Disease Study - Disability Adjusted Life Years. A Technical Overview. (WA Department of Health, 2004)

8. South Australia Burden of Disease and Injury study

Australian small area publications

1. Victoria – Southern Metropolitan Burden of Disease Study: Mortality and Morbidity

International publications

1. The Burden of Disease and Injury in New Zealand

Cost-Effectiveness

Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention (ACE Prevention) reports and publications

Staff List

School of Population Health
Level 3,
Edith Cavell Building,
University of Queensland
Herston, Qld 4006

Contact: Sarah Calderwood
Phone: 61 7 3365 5587
Fax: +61 7 3346 4729
s.calderwood@uq.edu.au