School of Health and Social Development
Faculty of HMNBS
| Cathy Mihalopoulos | ||
| Position | Senior Research Fellow | |
| cathy.mihalopoulos@deakin.edu.au | ||
| Area | Public Health Research Cluster | |
| Phone | +61 3 925 17383 | |
| Campus | Burwood | |
| Role and Profile | Cathy Mihalopoulos is a senior health economist with the Health Economics Unit in the School of Health and Social Development. She has dual qualifications in economics and psychology and she is currently employed on an NH&MRC capacity building grant in economic evaluation. The purpose of this grant is to develop the capacity of Australian economic evaluators to become internationally competitive and develop the skills to carry out cutting edge research within the field of economic evaluation. Her main research interest is the economic evaluation of mental health in an Australian context. | |
| Research Interests |
Cathy’s research interests lie mainly in the economic evaluation of mental health care and interventions within an Australian context. This includes both undertaking full economic evaluations of services and interventions as well as focusing on specific methodological issues for economic evaluation of mental health care. For example, she has an advisory role in an NH&MRC funded project which is developing a preference based health related quality of life measure specifically for mental health problems She has considerable experience in the economics of stroke care where she was instrumental in developing the Model of Resource Utilisation Costs and Outcomes (MORUCOS) for the National Stroke Foundation and has also worked in the assessment of new health technologies (particularly MRI). Cathy has had experience conducting health program evaluation and research, particularly in the field of mental health. |
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| Service to the University, discipline or community |
• Mihalopoulos C., Chalamot M., Vos T., Magnus A., Carter R., (2003). ACE-MH: Non-pharmacological Interventions for Psychosis. Paper presented at the Health Services Research Association Annual Conference, 16-19 November, Grand Hyatt, Melbourne (Abstract published in conference proceedings). • Mihalopoulos C., Chalamot M., Vos T., Magnus A., Carter R. (2003). ACE-MH: Non-pharmacological Interventions for Psychosis. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Health Outcomes Conference, 20-21 August, Rydges Lakeside, Canberra (full paper published in conference proceedings available on CD ROM from The Health Outcomes Collaboration, Centre for Health Services Development, University of Woollongong). • Mihalopoulos C. (2003) Discussant presentation of “Cost- effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination for all Australians aged 50-64 years” (authors Butler et al). Australian Health Economics Society Conference, 2-3rd October, Australian National Gallery, Canberra • Mihalopoulos C. (2004) Discussant presentation of “The gross prices of private fee-for-service psychiatric services under Medicare in Six Australian regions, 1984-2001” (authors William, R et al). Australian Health Economics Society Conference, 30th Sept-1st Oct, Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne • Mihalopoulos C. (2004) Discussant presentation of “Estimating utility values for health states of overweight and obese individuals using item responses from the SF-36” (authors Kortt et al). Australian Health Economics Society Conference, 30th Sept-1st Oct, Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne |
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| Conferences |
• Australian Health Economics Society • International Health Economics Association |
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| Publications | 1. Mihalopoulos, C., Cadilhac DA., Moodie, H., Dewey, H., Thrift, A., Donnan, G., Carter, R. Development and application of MORUCOS: an economic model of stroke care for Australia, (2005). The International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 21(4), 499-505. 2. Mihalopoulos. C. Kiropoulos, L., Shih, S., Gunn, J., Blashki, G., Meadows, G. (2005) Exploratory Economic analyses of two primary mental health care pathways; issues for sustainability, Medical Journal of Australia, 183(10)suppl, s73-s76. 3. Mihalopoulos C., Meadows G., Stiller A., Pirkis J., Burgess, P. (2005) “Attaching unit costs to the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Providing the potential to inform key economic questions in mental health” Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 8(2), 61-69 4. Moodie M., Cadilhac D., Pearce D., Mihalopoulos C., Carter R., Davis S. Donnan G. (2006) Economic evaluation of Australian stroke services: A prospective, multicentre study comparing dedicated Stroke Units with other care modalities. Accepted 10/8/06 in Stroke 5. Mihalopoulos C., Sanders, MR., Turner K M-T., Murphy-Brennan, M. Carter, R. (2006) Does the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program provide value for money? Accepted 5/9/06 in ANZJP | |
| Highest Qualification | Graduate Diploma Monash University Completed: 11-MAR-99 | |