Bonny Parkinson

Associate Professor Parkinson is a health economist at the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) with expertise in pharmaceutical policy in Australia and in conducting and reviewing economic evaluations of healthcare interventions and technologies. She has completed a BEc (Honours) (Australian National University, ANU, 1999-2002), an MSc in Health Economics (University of York, 2006-2007) and a PhD (University of Technology Sydney, UTS, 2011-2014), which was awarded the UTS Chancellor’s List Award in 2016. Dr Parkinson is currently an Associate Professor at the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (2015-). She currently leads the health technology assessment stream, and has been involved in over 60 evaluations of submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), 6 evaluations of submissions to the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) and the National Diabetes Subsidy Scheme (NDSS) since 2009. To date, she has been the recipient of career research funding of over $27.0 million spread over 26 grants and has +40 peer-reviewed journal articles. She's also been awarded the Australian Health Economics Society Rising Star award (2022), the Macquarie University Academic Staff Award for Excellence in Research (Healthy People) (2017), and the UTS Research Excellence Through Partnership award (2013).