Staff Profile
Prof Theo Vos
Position: Director, Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness
Phone: +61 7 336 55508
Fax: +61 7 336 55442
Email: t.vos@sph.uq.edu.au
Location: 520
Building: Mayne Medical School
Centre or Group: Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness
Biography:
Theo Vos started out his career as a 'bush doctor' in district hospitals in Lesotho and Zimbabwe for nine years. He then did a MSc Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In the three years following as a staff member he led the Maurtitius Burden of Disease Study. In 1997 he moved to Australia to work for the Victorian Department of Human Services and carried out the Victorian Burden of Disease study as well as two economic evaluation studies: ACE-Heart Disease and ACE-Mental Health. Theo currently is Director of Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness at the School of Population Health of the University of Queensland. The Centre aims to provide health policy makers with best available evidence to guide the allocation of resources. Theo has made major contributions to the national Australian study and studies in Zimbabwe, Thailand, South Africa and Malaysia. He is leading the update of the Australian Burden of Disease study including for the first time an Indigenous study. He is currently directing two large economic evaluation projects: a) the ACE-Prevention project which over the coming five years will model the cost-effectiveness of 100 prevention options for non-communicable disease in Australia; and b) the SPICE project in Thailand examining intervention options for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, mental disorders, lifestyle risk factors and road traffic injuries.Qualifications:
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PhD (2006)
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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MSc (1994)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Medical Practioner ( (1980)
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Research Interests:
- Burden of Disease Analysis
- Epidemiology
- Health Economics
- International and Tropical Health
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- Carter R, Vos T, Moodie M, Haby M, Magnus A, Mihalopoulos C. Priority Setting in Health: Origins, Description and Application of the Assessing Cost Effectiveness (ACE) Initiative. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. 2009; 8:593 - 617.
- Cobiac LJ, Vos T, Barendregt JJ. Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Promote Physical Activity: A Modelling Study. Plos Medicine. 2009; 6(7).
- Degenhardt Louisa, Whiteford Harvey, Hall Wayne, Vos Theo. Estimating the burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and mental disorders: what is 'Global Burden of Disease 2005' and why does it matter?. Addiction. 2009; 104(9):1466-1471. View Publication
- Vos T, Barker B, Begg S, Stanley L, Lopez AD. Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2009; 38(2):470-477.
- Carter R, Moodie M, Markwick A, Magnus A, Tay-Teo K, Vos T, et al. ACE-Obesity: ACE methods and overview of cost results. International Journal of Obesity. 2008 submitted; .
- Ghaffari S, Barendregt J, Vos T. Cost-effectiveness of traztuzamab. Annals of Oncology. 2008 submitted; .
- Katzenellenbogen J, Begg S, Somerford P, Anderson CS, Semmens J, Codde J, et al. Disability burden due to stroke in Western Australia: established data sources, new application. Social Science and Medicine. 2008 submitted; .
- Carter R, Vos T, Moodie M, Haby M, Magnus A, Mihalopoulos C. Priority Setting in Health: Origins, Description and Application of the Assessing Cost Effectiveness (ACE) Initiative. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. 2008; 8(6):593-617.
- Saha S, Barendregt JJ, Vos T, Whiteford H, McGrath J. Modelling disease frequency measures in schizophrenia epidemiology. Schizophrenia Research. 2008; 104(1-3):246-254.
- Begg SJ, Vos T, Barker B, Stanley L, Lopez AD. Burden of disease and injury in Australia in the new millennium: measuring health loss from diseases, injuries and risk factors. Medical Journal of Australia. 2008; 188:36-40.
- Begg S, Vos T, Goss J, Mann N. An alternative approach to projecting health expenditure in Australia. Australian Health Review. 2008; 32(1):148-155.
- Doran C, Vos T, Cobiac L, Hall W, Asamoah I, Wallace A, et al. Identifying cost-effective interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in Australia. Brisbane. School of Population Health, The University of Queensland; ; View Publication
- Lennert JL, Vos T. Guidance on osteoporosis - Confusion from analyses and conflicts of interest. British Medical Journal. 2008; 337.
- Begg S, Vos T, Barker B, Stevenson CE, Stanley L, Lopez AD. The Burden of Disease and Injury in Australia 2003. Canberra. AIHW; ;
- Bertram MY, Lim SS, Wallace AL, Vos T. Costs and benefits of smoking cessation aids: making a case for public reimbursement of nicotine replacement therapy in Australia. Tobacco Control. 2007; 6:255-260.
- Bradshaw D, Norman R, Lewin S, Joubert J, Schneider M, Nannan N, et al. Strengthening public health in South Africa: Building a stronger evidence base for improving the health of the nation. South African Medical Journal. 2007; 97(8).
- Gartner CE, Hall WD, Vos T, Bertram MY, Wallace AL, Lim SS. Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study. Lancet. 2007 May 9; 369(9578):2010-2014.
- Gartner Coral E, Hall Wayne D, Vos Theo, Bertram Melanie Y, Wallace Angela L. Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction - Authors’ reply. The Lancet. 2007; 370(9593):1206-1207.
- Groenewald P, Vos T, Norman R, Laubscher R, van Walbeek C, Saloojee Y, et al. Estimating the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa in 2000. South African Medical Journal. 2007; 97:674-681.
- Groenewald P, Vos T, Norman R, Laubscher R, Van Walbeek C, Saloojee Y, et al. Estimating the Burden of Disease Attributable to Smoking in South Africa in 2000. South African Medical Journal. 2007; 97(8):674-681.
