My personal research interests are in methods for measuring the equality and equity of health care and health outcomes, and the impact of health and health care on patient’s living standards. This includes assessing patient out of pocket costs, patient economic resources and the distribution of health outcomes across different socioeconomic groups using panel survey data and administrative data. I am leading a team of health economists who specialise in embedding these equity considerations, and patient perspective of healthcare costs and outcomes into the economic evaluation of health programs. I have strong quantitative analysis skills, with extensive experience in modelling health and healthcare costs using SAS. My team has expertise in administrative data analysis, data linkage and biostatistics.

My team currently consists of 1 postdoctoral researcher, 2 research fellows, 2 research assistants, 8 PhD students, and 1 Masters student.

 

I have published over 100 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). I have attracted over $10 million in grant funding ($6.39 million from NHMRC). My 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.

Interests

Research

• Health inequality as an outcome in performance and efficiency measurement
• Out of pocket healthcare costs
• Cost measurement
• Maternal and first 1000 days health economics

Experience

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

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Applied economics (3801)
• Oncology and carcinogenesis (3211)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Evaluation of health and support services (2002)

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
• 2017 - Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science 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

• Brown A, Yim J, Jones S, Tan A, Callander E, Watt K, De Abreu Lourenco R and Pain T (2023) Men’s perceptions and preferences regarding prostate cancer radiation therapy: A systematic scoping review. Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 38. pp. 28-42
• Lindsay D, Bates N, Callander E, Johnston K, Carlisle K, Smith D, Evans R and Larkins S (2023) Evaluating the quality and safety of the BreastScreen remote radiology assessment model of service delivery in Australia. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 29 (3). pp. 203-210
• Brown A, Tan A, Anable L, Callander E, De Abreu Lourenco R and Pain T (2022) Perceptions and recall of treatment for prostate cancer: A survey of two populations. Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 24. pp. 78-85
• Brown A, Pain T, Tan A, Anable L, Callander E, Watt K, Street D and De Abreu Lourenco R (2022) Men's preferences for image-guidance in prostate radiation therapy: A discrete choice experiment. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 167. pp. 49-56
• Lindsay D, Bates N, Diaz A, Watt K and Callander E (2022) Quantifying the hospital and emergency department costs for women diagnosed with breast cancer in Queensland. Supportive Care in Cancer, 30. pp. 2141-2150
• Simmons L, Callander E, Barker R and Barnett F (2022) Measuring health outcomes, experience of care and cost of healthcare in student-led healthcare services: a literature review. Focus on Health Professional Education, 23 (1). pp. 37-64
• Callander E, Sidebotham M, Lindsay D and Gamble J (2021) The future of the Australian midwifery workforce—impacts of ageing and workforce exit on the number of registered midwives. Women and Birth, 34 (1). pp. 56-60
• Corscadden L, Callander E, Topp S and Watson D (2021) Disparities in experiences of emergency department care for people with a mental health condition. Australasian Emergency Care, 24 (1). pp. 11-19
• Eklom B, Tracy S and Callander E (2021) An exploration of potential output measures to assess efficiency and productivity for labour and birth in Australia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21.
• Fox H and Callander E (2021) Health service use and health system costs associated with diabetes during pregnancy in Australia. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 31 (5). pp. 1427-1433
• Fox H, Topp S, Lindsay D and Callander E (2021) Ethnic, socio-economic and geographic inequities in maternal health service coverage in Australia. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36 (6). pp. 2182-2198
• Fox H, Callander E, Lindsay D and Topp S (2021) Is there unwarranted variation in obstetric practice in Australia? Obstetric intervention trends in Queensland hospitals. Australian Health Review, 45. pp. 157-166

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 125+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Emily Callander from 2009 onwards.

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Current

• Psychological intervention for reducing emergency department (ED) representations ? A randomised controlled trial (RCT) (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Quantifying the cost of cancer in Australia, and the distribution of these costs by Indigenous status, remoteness, and socioeconomic disadvantage (2019, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Disparities in experiences of access to care for Australians with mental health conditions (2020, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Motion monitoring during prostate radiation therapy treatment: clinical considerations, and patient preferences and perspectives (2023, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Medicalised childbirth: variation in care and drivers of maternal health service provision in Queensland, Australia (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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

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