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Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-effectiveness
Established within the UQ School of Population Health in 2003, the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness (BoDCE) has attracted researchers from both Australian and global burden studies and is in the unique position to deliver high quality burden and cost-effectiveness projects as well as offer comprehensive training on all aspects of burden methodology.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness (BoDCE) is to contribute to improving population health in Australia and internationally through excellence in scholarship and research on how best to translate population heath statistics into evidence that can inform health policy.
Key Goals
To achieve and maintain national and international recognition as a leading institution for research and training in population health measurement ("burden of disease") and economic evaluation ("cost-effectiveness")
To conduct high quality research studies on measuring population health and conducting economic evaluations in Australia and abroad
To assist governments and researchers in developing countries to undertake high quality burden of disease and cost-effectiveness research
To train a critical mass of Australian and international researchers who can collate, analyse and present evidence for priority setting to policy makers
To educate policy makers on how best to make use of evidence for priority setting
BoDCE major research projects
Most research is in burden of disease and injury, and cost-effectiveness
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 Education and training
BoDCE provides training in two broad areas: burden of disease and economic evaluation
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 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
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
BoDCE publications
Research reports of the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness
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
BoDCE staff
Contact the BoDCE team
Staff List
Associate Professor Epidemiological Modeling
+61 7 336 55584
j.barendregt@sph.uq.edu.au
Calderwood, Sarah
Clerical Officer
+61 7 336 55587
s.calderwood@uq.edu.au
Cobiac, Linda
Research Fellow
+61 7 334 55029
l.cobiac@uq.edu.au
Research Fellow
h.higashi@uq.edu.au
janetta.joubert@uqconnect.edu.au
y.lee5@uq.edu.au
Veerman, Lennert
Senior Research Fellow
+61 7 336 55367
l.veerman@uq.edu.au
Vos, Theo
Director, Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness
+61 7 336 55508
t.vos@sph.uq.edu.au
Wallace, Angela
PhD scholar
+61 7 334 64962
angela.wallace@uq.edu.au
Contact BoDCE
Contact us
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
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