The key focus of this project is to investigate issues of resource allocation and scarcity in setting priorities to meet the growing metropolitan-rural inequality in health outcomes. This important research will focus on the measurement of health status and the demand for and/or supply of health care services and the costs and benefits of prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases in rural communities.

The research can employ quantitative and/or qualitative methods using both primary and secondary sources of data and information. The thesis can be written in either traditional format or in PhD by publication.

The following is a list of indicative, but not exhaustive, broad topic areas on which PhD research proposals are invited:
* Issues of cost and benefit of non-communicable/chronic diseases
* Estimating burden of diseases
* Rural health and wellbeing, and demographic differentials
* Economic evaluation of healthcare interventions and programs
* Socio-economic determinants of health
* Economics of telehealth
* Cost-effectiveness of rural health interventions
* Public policy relating to health insurance, health financing and health status.

Professor Khorshed Alam

• Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development
• Institute for Resilient Regions
• School of Business

• Applied Economics
• Econometrics
• Economic Theory
• Public Health and Health Services

• Doctor of Philosophy (DPHD)
• Master of Research (MRES)