Dr Callander is a health economist specialising in quantifying the indirect impacts of chronic disease, specifically the impact on education attainment, labour force participation and family income. She is leading a growing team of health economists at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, funded by a number of NHMRC grants focused on perinatal and childhood health economics, and tropical health economics. Her team currently consists of 1 postdoctoral researcher, 2 research assistants, 4 PhD students, and 3 Masters students.

 

She has published over 70 peer reviewed publications in highly regarded journals (such as Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Archives of Disease in Childhood, British Journal of Pyschiatry, International Journal of Cardiology, Arthritis and Rheumatology and Health Economics). She has attracted $6.45 million in grant funding ($6.39 million from NHMRC). Her work has been presented at the National Press Club, numerous addresses to national and international government agencies, and been cited in Federal healthcare policy statements.

Teaching

• TM5526: Public Health Economics (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Out of pocket healthcare expenditure
• Indirect costs of ill health
• Health inequality as an outcome in performance and efficiency measurement
• Perinatal health economics

Experience

• 2008 to 2015 - Research Fellow, University of Sydney (Sydney)

Research Disciplines

• Applied Economics (1402)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public Health (9204)
• Microeconomics (9102)

Awards

• 2012 - Geographical Research Prize Awarded for best publication in the journal Geographical Research, by a postdoc.
• 2008 - Bachelor of Arts (Environment). Awarded to the student with the highest Grade Point Average at the end of the Bachelor of Arts (Environment) degree.
• 2008 - Environmental Studies Medal Awarded to the student with the highest cumulative marks upon graduation in any Bachelor’s degree offered by the Griffith School of the Environment.
• 2007 - Sinclair Knight Merz Award
• 2006 to 2008 - Griffith Award for Academic Excellence

Fellowships

• 2013 to 2017 - NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowship (APP1052742), ‘The role of health in poverty entrenchment: a new measure of long-term poverty for Australia’

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Journal Articles

• Callander E, Corscadden L and Levesque J (2017) Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure and chronic disease – do Australians forgo care because of the cost? Australian Journal of Primary Health, 23 (1). pp. 15-22
• Callander E and Lindsay D (in press) The impact of childhood autism spectrum disorder on parent’s labour force participation: can parents be expected to be able to re-join the labour force? Autism Research,
• Callander E, Larkins S and Corscadden L (2017) Variations in out-of-pocket costs for primary care services across Australia: a regional analysis. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 23 (4). pp. 379-385
• Callander E and Schofield D (2017) Impact of multidimensional poverty on the self-efficacy of older people: results from an Australian longitudinal study. Geriatrics and Gerontology International, 17 (2). pp. 308-314
• Callander E, Lindsay D and Scuffham P (2017) Employer benefits from an early intervention program for depression: a cost-benefit analysis. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 59 (3). pp. 246-249
• Callander E and McDermott R (2017) Measuring the effects of CVD interventions and studies across socioeconomic groups: a brief review. International Journal of Cardiology, 227. pp. 635-643
• Schofield D, Callander E, Kelly S and Shrestha R (2017) Working beyond the traditional retirement age: the influence of health on Australia's older workers. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 29 (3). pp. 235-244
• Toohill J, Callander E, Gamble J, Creedy D and Fenwick J (2017) A cost effectiveness analysis of midwife psycho-education for fearful pregnant women – a health system perspective for the antenatal period. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17 (217). pp. 1-7
• Callander E, Allele F, Roberts H, Guinea W and Lindsay D (in press) The effect of childhood ADD/ADHD on parental workforce participation. Journal of Attention Disorders, pp. 1-6
• Callander E and Lloyd C (2016) Lifetime impact of injury on education, employment and income for Australians of labour force participation age. Occupational Medicine, 66 (8). pp. 607-613
• Callander E and Schofield D (2016) Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the risk of falling into poverty: an observational study. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 32 (6). pp. 581-588
• Callander E (2016) Pathways between health, education and income in adolescence and adulthood. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101 (9). pp. 825-831

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 82+ research outputs authored by Dr Emily Callander from 2009 onwards.

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Current

• Measuring Person-Centred Healthcare (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Performance and Health Economic Assessment of Motion Tracking fpr Prostrate Cancer Radiation Therapy (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Impact of Self-Care Education Via Mobile Phone Text Messaging in Diabetic Patients Living in Rural/Remote North Queensland: Clinical, Economic and Genetic Analysis (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Evaluation of a University based, Student-Led Health Clinic (Masters , Primary Advisor)
• Gender Equity in Health Services and the Economics of Childbearing (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Measuring performance in mental health care with a focus on vulnerable groups in Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Quantification of the Cost of Injury to the Health System in Queensland, Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Quantifying the Health System Use and Patient Resource Use and Expenditure on Cancer in Queensland (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Callander, E. (2017) CancerCostMOD. James Cook University

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