Associate Professor Anurag Sharma
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK
PhD (Economics) , ANU, Canberra
MPhil (Economics), IGIDR, Mumbai, India
MA (Economics), University of Rajasthan, India
BSc (Physics, Chemistry, Maths), Maharaja's College, Jaipur, India
I am听 听Associate Professor听 at School of Population Health. Previously I worked at Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. 听I obtained 听PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, Canberra. My 听research is mainly focussed on answering policy questions regarding:
- supply and demand side of healthcare management 听such as 听modelling hospital choice, 听tackle overcrowding in Emergency Departments, role of elective surgery waiting times in private hospital utilisation, hospital behaviour under activity based funding, patient safety and workforce development
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- 听health promotion policies and behavioural change: Impact of taxing sugar sweetened beverages on different income groups, body weight and obesity; Impact of alcohol taxation policies on alcohol consumption, pricing strategies to encourage health diet in disadvantaged groups
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- public health issues in low income settings: Program evaluation to improve maternal and child health (Nepal), 听improving nutritional status of children (India), modelling chronic diseases听(Mongolia), relationship between poverty and 听nutrition (India).
My research involves rigorous applied methods using large and complex datasets. I am currently CI and lead health economist on one NH&MRC Ideas Grant, three NHMRC Partnership Grants, one NSW Health COVID19 research grant and have听听been lead CI on one ARC Discovery grant in the past.听 I have also worked on several consultancy based research contracts including for OECD and WHO. 听
I have supervised five PhD听students to completion (three as main supervisor) and currently supervising听 four听PhD students as primary supervisor.
I am part of the Health Leadership and听 Management Group at the school and convene one core unit of MHLM (size ~ 320) and one elective unit (size ~ 50) on introductory and advanced health economics respectively. I am also a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), UK.
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CIC: NH&MRC Ideas Grant # GNT2013323 "Hospital trajectories for 15 million Australians鈥 (2022-2025). Total Amount: $655,934
CI听and Health Economics lead: NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT2006240 "Developing a model of Preventative Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disability" (2021-2026). Total Amount: $1,244,755
CI听and Health Economics lead: NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT1196912 "Community Health workers Extending Care in the Community" (2020-2025). Total Amount: $1,004,341
CI and Health Economics lead: NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT1192469 "Unifying and quality assuring disparate health silos with a common data model." (2020-2023). Total Amount: $735,795
Primary Chief-Investigator (CI A) from 2012-2014: 听Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant # DP120102252 听The Role of taxes and subsidies in promoting health lifestyles: an economic analysis. Total amount $ 300,000
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Other Recent Grants
Chief Investigator from听 2023-2024:听 糖心logo Ageing Futures Institute Seed Grant "听Boost 2.0: Boosting inpatient exercise after hip fracture and falls using alternative work force: an implementation evaluation"听
Chief Investigator and health economics lead听from 2021-22听:听NSW Health COVID-19 Research Grant "24/7 eICU Model of Care" . Total Amount: 听$500,000
Chief Investigator听from 2019-2021 :听Roberts Co.听(NSW) / NSW Government "Well Being of Construction Workers at Concorde Hospital". Total Amount: 听$272,512
Investigator 2019:听Economic Evaluation of HammondCare Darlinghurst: an aged care home for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness听
Investigator 2019 : NSW Health 听"Develop a preferred method to cost the health benefits of active transport". Total Amount: $81,000
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Faculty of Medicine Teaching award at 糖心logo: Award for Educational Excellence (Academic Staff) - 2019
Alan Hodgkinson prize for outstanding contribution to teaching and students learning 听- 2017
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Expert Opinion: A record number of patients wait in our EDs. Can NSW鈥檚 hospital crisis be solved? ()
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Invited Technical Expert:听Alcohol pricing policies: the potential of minimum pricing for protecting lives, WHO (March, 2021)
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Academic Member: POWH Community Based Services Future Directions Planning Inception Steering Committee, Sydney (August, 2019)
- Interviewed by SYN Radio regarding soft drink tax introduced in England (March, 2016)
- 听National Seven News, Channel 7 (May 2015)
National Nine News, Channel 9 (June 2014)- Radio Interview on Triple R, Melbourne Radio (June 2014)
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My Research Supervision
I am currently supervising four听PhD students听 as primary supervisor on following topics:
Effectiveness of Strategies to improve Health services sustainability in public health systems
What should be the role of 听health decision makers in health research to support knowledge translation?
Analyse the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) reimbursement framework in Australia
Hospital Sustainability 鈥 Improving value of care through leveraging new technology and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data听
Completed PhD Supervision
1. The relationship between income and alcohol: Implications for public health policy (Main Supervisor)
2.听Linkages of HDI Nutrition in a Transient Economy of India (Main Supervisor)
3. Essays on impact evaluation of maternal and child health interventions in Nepal and India (Associate Supervisor)
4. 听Economic Implications of Cardiovascular Diseases in Mongolia (Associate Supervisor)
My Teaching
Recent Teaching:
Course Convenor: PHCM9441 - Introduction to Health care Economics and Financial Management (T1, 2020) - Blended Delivery- [Evaluation: 5.77/6]
Course Convenor: PHCM9082 - Advanced Health care Economics and Financial Management (T2, 2020) - Blended Delivery- [Evaluation: 5.57/6]
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