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Rachael Moorin

Assoc/Prof Rachael Moorin

Director of Health Science/Director of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (UWA node)

Contact details

Address School of Population Health
The University of Western Australia (M431)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone 6488 1416
Fax 6488 1188

Biography

A/Prof Rachael Moorin is the Director of the UWA node of the Austrailian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) – having previously been a member of Professor D’Arcy Holman’s research team at the Centre for Health Services Research, UWA. Rachael has strong technical and computing credentials and is experienced with manipulation and analysis of linked administrative data. Rachael has significant expertise and experience in probabilistic modelling and quantitative data analysis stemming from her background in medical radiation science. Rachael is also the Director of Health Science Studies and teaches within the school.

Key research

  • Health economics
  • Health care policy
  • Health services research
  • Social epidemiology
  • Consumer and community participatory research

Major research interests

  • Health economics
  • Health care policy
  • Health services research
  • Social epidemiology
  • Consumer and community participatory research

Qualifications

DCR DRI Lond., PGDip(NM) MSc Newcastle(N.S.W.), PhD W.Aust., GradCertHlthEc Curtin

Publications

Rachael has 29 publications and 5 reports to date.
See link for publications

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Rachael is the Director of Health Science at the School of Population Health and also the Director of the University of Western Australia (UWA) node of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH).

Rachael completed a PhD in Population Health at UWA in 2005 and a Graduate Certificate in Health Economics from Curtin University also in 2005. She also has a Masters degree in Medical Radiation Science (Nuclear Medicine) and is currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching at Murdoch University

Funding received

UWA small grants scheme 2006 - Estimating the hospital costs of the sequelae of gastroenteritis in Western Australia.

Insurance Commission of Western Australia: 2008 –2010 Costs and availability of care for catastrophically injured motor vehicle crash victims.

Crawford Rural Cancer Research Initiative (CCWA): 2009 -2010 Cancer Treatment Quality and Delay: Development of a Complex Intervention to Improve Rural Cancer Outcomes

NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Population Health & Health Services Research: 2009 - 2013 OSPREY: Building capacity for research to improve health services for mothers, babies and children

Memberships

International Health Economics Association.
Health Services Research Association Australia and New Zealand.

Honours and awards

In 2002 Rachael won two prestigious competitive awards at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM) Annual Scientific Conference for her research presentations and papers (the Radpharm and the Mallinkrodt awards). This was the first time in the 37 years history of the ANZSNM that both awards had been won by the same person in the same year. In the same years she was also awarded second place for the best published journal article by the American Society of Nuclear Medicine for work stemming from her Masters thesis, for which she received a distinction. Rachael is now working with the medical radiation community to develop research potential in Medical Radiation Technologists.

Previous positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population Health, UWA

Teaching

Public Health (PUBH1101)
Public Health and Healthcare Systems (PUBH2202)
Health Economics (PUBH3303)

Current projects

In addition to research evaluating the implications of an ageing population for healthcare costs Rachael is also a chief investigator on the following research projects.
Costs and availability of care for catastrophically injured person in WA. This project uses a unique methodology which involves consumers as equal partners in the research.
Cancer Treatment Quality and Delay: Development of a Complex Intervention to Improve Rural Cancer Outcomes.
OSPREY: Building capacity for research to improve health services for mothers, babies and children

Research profile