Associate Professor Health Systems Sustainability, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Associate Professor Health Systems Sustainability, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University and Honorary Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Health, The University of Sydney
I have an interest in childhood chronic diseases and injury and how health services and systems serve this population.
I have conducted studies in the following areas:
-Epidemiological studies in rare diseases
-Health service use and costs for chronic complex disease
-Implementation/evaluation of new models of integrated care
-Experiences of parents and carers while accessing health services
-experiences of healthcare providers when caring for children with complex chronic disease
What is a rare disease? It's not as simple as it sounds
Mar 01, 2020 13:37 pm UTC| Health
If you have a rare disease, you may be the only person in Australia with that condition. You may not know, however, that being diagnosed with a rare disease means you are part of a community of up to two million...
Button batteries kill. Here's how we can prevent needless child deaths from battery ingestion
Aug 13, 2018 15:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Dr Ruth Barker, Director of Queenslands Injury Surveillance Unit is an emergency paediatrician, and an advocate for button battery injury prevention. She is the lead author of this article. In 2013, four-year-old Summer...
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