Senior Professor Eckermann is an internationally renown health economist known for his methodological tools that enable governments to compare medical system data and outcomes in a like for like manner.

Experience

  • 2010–present
    Professor of Health Economics, University of Wollongong
  • 2008–2010
    Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University
  • 2005–2008
    A/Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University
  • 1999–2005
    Senior Health Economist, NHMRC Clinical Trial Centre

Education

  • 2005 
    UNSW, PhD Health Economics
  • 1998 
    University of Adelaide, BMSc
  • 1995 
    Tromso University , Grad Dip H.Ec
  • 1991 
    University of Adelaide, B.Ec (Hons.)
  • 1990 
    University of Adelaide , B.Ec

Publications

  • 2014
    Avoiding a health system hernia and the associated outcomes and costs, ANZJPH
  • 2014
    Can the real opportunity cost stand up: displaced services the straw man outside the room., PharmacoEconomics
  • 2014
    Evaluating return on investment in a school based health promotion and prevention program: the investment multiplier for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program. , Social Science and Medicine
  • 2013
    Including quality attributes in efficiency measures consistent with net benefit: creating incentives for evidence based medicine in practice, Social Science and Medicine
  • 2013
    Optimal global VOI trials: better aligning manufacturer and decision maker interest and enabling feasible risk sharing, PharmacoEconomics
  • 2012
    Expected value of information and pricing new health care interventions, PharmacoEconomics
  • 2011
    Consistently estimating absolute risk difference when translating evidence to jurisdictions of interest., PharmacoEconomics
  • 2011
    Accounting for between-study variation in incremental net benefit in value of information methodology, Health Economics
  • 2011
    Presenting evidence and summary measures to best inform societal decisions when comparing multiple strategies, PharmacoEconomics
  • 2010
    The value of Value of Information: best informing research design and prioritization using current methods, PharmacoEconomics
  • 2010
    Optimal clinical trial design using value of information with imperfect implementation, Health Economics
  • 2009
    Indirect comparison: relative risk fallacies and odds solution, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • 2009
    Globally optimal trial design for local decision making, Health Economics
  • 2008
    Time and Expected Value of Sample Information Wait for No Patient, Value in health
  • 2008
    Health Technology Assessment in the Cost-Disutility Plane, Medical Decision Making
  • 2007
    Expected Value of Information and Decision Making in HTA, Health Economics

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