Bridie Murphy
Role and profile
Bridie Murphy joined Deakin University in February 2009. Her main areas of work are assessments for the Commonwealth Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) and the Victorian Policy Advisory Committee on Clinical Practice and Technology (VPACT) drawing on previous work in systematic reviews of literature and health technologies within the Australian satellite of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal group. Previous work in clinical trials and evidence-based health care at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Monash University, Cabrini Hospital compliment her knowledge of evidence review and dissemination.
Research interests
Bridie Murphy’s research interest focuses on Health Technology Assessment, including MSAC and VPACT assessments. Other current work includes economic evaluations alongside clinical trials assessing for effectiveness and cost-effectiveness using trial-based evaluation and modelled economic evaluation of longer term impacts in areas including the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, psychosocial health after cancer diagnosis and a comparison of treatment methods for infant dehydration in hospital.
Conferences
Recent conferences include:• Dr Debbie Rankins, Prof Prasuna Reddy, Prof James Dunbar, Bridie Murphy, Hayley Hellinger, “Effective recruitment in the Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study”, Tri State PHCRED conference 16-17 September 2010, Warrnambool, Victoria. • Bridie Murphy, Stephen Colgan, Rob Carter, Eward Janus, Prasuna Reddy, Erkki Vartiainen, James Dunbar, “Economic evaluation of the Melbourne diabetes prevention study: An intervention for individuals 50 or older at high risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes” 8th European Conference on Health Economics, 7-10 July 2010, Helsinki, Finland • Stephen Colgan, Bridie Murphy, Rob Carter, Pilvikki Absetz, Prasuna Reddy, James Dunbar, Brian Oldenburg, “Economic evaluation of the Australasian Peers for Progress Diabetes Program” 8th European Conference on Health Economics, 7-10 July 2010, Helsinki, Finland • Prof. James Dunbar, Bridie Murphy, Stephen Colgan, Prof. Rob Carter, Prof. Edward Janus, Prof. Prasuna Reddy, Prof. Erkki Vartiainen, “Economic evaluation of the Melbourne diabetes prevention study: an intervention for individuals 50 or older at high risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes” 6th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, 8-11 April, 2010, Dresden, Germany |
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21st June 2012