Rachael L MORTON Cancer Survivorship 2019

Rachael L MORTON

A/Prof Morton is Director of Health Economics at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, and faculty member of the Melanoma Institute Australia. She has a MScMed (Clin Epi)(Hons) and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Sydney. She spent two years working at the Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford as part of her NHMRC Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship. Rachael specialises in trial-based and modelled economic evaluation, and elicitation of patient preferences using discrete choice experiments. Her research incorporates patient-centred and economic outcomes into clinical trials of diagnostic tests, new treatments and models of care to facilitate policy decision-making on the basis of cost-effectiveness. Research interests: A/Professor Morton's research interests include the health economics of melanoma, and chronic kidney disease. She also has an interest in health equity in disadvantaged populations both in Australia and overseas. Her methodological interests include systematic reviews of economic evidence, assessment of test evaluation and monitoring, measurement of quality of life and wellbeing, and end-of-life care. Teaching and supervision: A/Professor Morton coordinates short courses in health economics for government and industry and currently supervises 5 PhD candidates.