POLICY AND EVALUATION RESEARCH GROUP

The Policy and Evaluation Group (PEG) is funded by Queensland Health, and affiliated with the School of Population Health at The University of Queensland. Our research focuses on four main areas:

• Mental health policy analysis – how to design the best mental health policy

• Structural reform of mental health services – how best to deliver services

• Developing measures of service performance – what outcomes are we getting from the services

• Measuring the impact of mental disorder on role functioning and productivity – what are the broader social and economic benefits of investing in mental health

• Our research aims to inform and influence how governments and the private sector design and implement programs in mental health.

Current Projects

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• Outcomes and Case-Mix Research

• Service use for mental health problems in Australia: implications for policy

• The Global Burden of Disease Study

• The Work Outcomes Research Cost-Benefit (WORC) Project

• Evaluation of the Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the Medicare Benefits Schedule initiative

• Scoping study to inform the development of a national mental health service planning framework

• Planning Estimates for the Mental Health Community Support Sector in Queensland 2009 - 2017

• Planning estimates for the provision of core mental health services in Queensland 2007-2017

• Description and evaluation of the Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre’s BRiTA Futures program

• Early Psychosis Research

• Social Inclusion and Translational Research

• Supported Accommodation for people with severe and persistent mental illness

• ECT – Meta-analysis of thrice versus twice weekly treatment

  Estimating Remisssion from Untreated Depression – Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Recently Completed Research Projects

• Evaluation of Policy Initiatives

• The Domains and Elements of Mental Health Policy

PERSONNEL

HEAD

Professor Harvey Whiteford AM, MBBS, MPH, D.Univ., FRANZCP, FAFPHM   Kratzmann Chair of Psychiatry and Population Health, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland (click for bio)

STAFF

Policy and Services Research

Philip Burgess, Professor, Mental Health Services Research (click for bio)

Meredith Harris, Senior Research Fellow

Dan Siskind, Research Psychiatrist

Claire Pennell, Research Assistant

Monique Mitchelson, Research Assistant

Mental Disorders Burden of Disease Project

Amanda Baxter, Project Manager

Roman Scheurer, Research Officer

Adele Somerville, Research Assistant

Fiona Charlson, Research Assistant

Alize Ferrari, Research Assistant

Work Outcomes Research Cost Benefit (WORC) Project

Michael Hilton Ph.D., Project Director (click for bio)

Doctoral Students

Pudtan Panthunan

Libby Holden

Grant Sara

Ed Heffernan

Meredith Harris

Dan Siskind

Amanda Baxter