Luke Connelly

Professor of Health Economics, The University of Queensland, CBEH

Research Expertise

Health economics
insurance
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Accounting
Health Policy
History and Philosophy of Science
Health (social science)
Infectious Diseases
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Genetics (clinical)
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Neurology (clinical)
Neurology
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Rheumatology
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Development
Geography, Planning and Development
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Epidemiology
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Nutrition and Dietetics
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Surgery
Pharmacology
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Demography
Community and Home Care
Internal Medicine
Pharmaceutical Science
Pharmacy
Pharmacology (medical)
Education
Earth-Surface Processes
Nephrology
Hematology

About

Luke Connelly is Professor of Health Economics at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health. He also holds a Professorial appointment (part-time) at The University of Bologna, to which he was appointed in 2017 via the Italian “Direct Call” ([link](https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/luke.connelly/en)) process. In 2019 he was appointed as Honorary Professor at The University of Sydney. His main interests are in health economics and insurance economics and the effects of institutions (including legal constructs) on incentives and behaviour. He has also worked in other fields of applied microeconomics, including education economics and transport economics. His publications include papers in *Review of Income and Wealth*, *Health Economics*, *Journal of Health Economics*, *Journal of Risk and Insurance*, *Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance*, *Accident Analysis and Prevention*, *Journal of Law and Medicine*, *Journal of Clinical Epidemiology*, *European Journal of Health Economics*, *International Journal of Health Economics and Finance*, *Social Science and Medicine*, *Economic Papers*, *Economic Analysis and Policy*, *Journal of Transport Economics and Policy*, *Labour Economics*, *Economics and Human Biology* as well as in a range of clinical journals, including *Lancet*. Luke has served on a number of public committees including the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC), which advises the Australian Minister for Health on the safety, efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of new and extant listings on Australia's Medicare Benefits Schedule. He has extensive service on other public committees and taskforces as well as extensive teaching and consulting engagements with industry. Over his career he has been a chief investigator on research grants and contracts totalling more than $67m. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of European Journal of Health Economics and the International Journal on Environmental Research and Public Health. He is a member of the International Health Economics Association's Arrow Awards Committee, which awards an annual prize in honour of Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow for the best paper in the field. He is currently Guest Editor (with Christophe Courbage) on a Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance on Insurance and Emerging Health Risks. His current research interests include health service innovations to improve the health of people with chronic kidney disease(CKD). Ongoing interests include the economics of disability and insurance, compensable injury compensation schemes, and the determinants of health. Luke enjoys and has considerable experience teaching economics and health economics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In 2014 he was awarded the School of Economics Distinguished Teaching Award for his teaching on UQ's Master of Health Economics Program. In July 2016 and July 2019 he also taught summer schools in Health Economics and the Economics of Insurance at The University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Over the past 10 years he has been a chief investigator on grants totalling more than $70m.

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Publications

The economic costs of road traffic crashes: Australia, states and territories
Accident Analysis & Prevention
2006
A History of the Term “Moral Hazard”
Journal of Risk and Insurance
2012
Comprehensive physiotherapy exercise programme or advice for chronic whiplash (PROMISE): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
The Lancet
2014
Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia
Journal of Health Economics
2009
Consumer evaluation of hospital foodservice quality: an empirical investigation
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
2006
The effect of unpaid caregiving intensity on labour force participation: Results from a multinomial endogenous treatment model
Social Science & Medicine
2014
A cost-effectiveness analysis of adding a human papillomavirus vaccine to the Australian National Cervical Cancer Screening Program
Sexual Health
2007
Convergence and determinants of health expenditures in OECD countries
Health Economics Review
2017
Cost- Effectiveness of Anti-Obesity Interventions
Oxford Handbooks Online
2011
Cost-effectiveness analysis of germ-line BRCA testing in women with breast cancer and cascade testing in family members of mutation carriers
Genetics in Medicine
2018
Protocol and Rationale for the International Lung Screening Trial
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
2020
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Are people who claim compensation "cured by a verdict"? A longitudinal study of health outcomes after whiplash.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
2012
Efficacy of a personalised pelvic floor muscle training programme on urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy (MaTchUP): protocol for a randomised controlled trial
BMJ Open
2019
Reducing Medical Admissions and Presentations Into Hospital through Optimising Medicines (REMAIN HOME): a stepped wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial
Medical Journal of Australia
2021
Recommendations For Core Outcome Domain Set For Whiplash-Associated Disorders (CATWAD)
The Clinical Journal of Pain
2019
Cost‐Effectiveness of Deep Brain Stimulation With Movement Disorders: A Systematic Review
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
2019
The benefits of paid maternity leave for mothers' post-partum health and wellbeing: Evidence from an Australian evaluation
Social Science & Medicine
2017
Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements: the role of time investments
Journal of Population Economics
2020
Assertion-Reason Assessment in Formative and Summative Tests: Results from Two Graduate Case Studies
Educational Innovation in Economics and Business
2004
Description and Outcomes of a Medicare Case Management Program by Nurses
Home Health Care Services Quarterly
2000
Identifying Predictors of Higher Acute Care Costs for Patients With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury and Modeling Acute Care Pathway Redesign: A Record Linkage Study
Spine
2019
Do women in rural and remote areas need different guidelines for management of low‐grade abnormalities found on cervical screening?
Medical Journal of Australia
2006
Economic Evaluations Alongside Equivalence and Noninferiority Trials
Value in Health
2009
Medical Expenditures and Health Status in Australia: A Story of Increasing or Decreasing Returns?
The Australian Economic Review
2004
What if New South Wales was more equal?
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
2002
Cost of screening for lung cancer in Australia
Internal Medicine Journal
2019
The Efficiency of Australian Schools: A Nationwide Analysis Using Gains in Test Scores of Students as Outputs
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy
2016
Structural factors and integrated care interventions: is there a role for economists in the policy debate?
The European Journal of Health Economics
2021
Cost-Effectiveness Studies of PET in Oncology
PET and PET-CT in Oncology
2004
Community nursing and health care in the twenty-first century
Australian Health Review
2000
A METHOD TO ASSESS THE FEE STRUCTURE OF THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER
Medical Journal of Australia
1965
Impact of pharmacist and physician collaborations in primary care on reducing readmission to hospital: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
2022
Demand Side Cost-Sharing and Prescription Drugs Utilization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
SSRN Electronic Journal
2013
Utilization and Costs of Health Care in a Kidney Supportive Care Program
Journal of Palliative Care
2019
Causal impact of physical activity on child health and development
Unknown Venue
2022
Geriatric CKD: Value-Based Nephrology
Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
2016
Health-care accessibility in seven countries in eastern Europe: a multinomial logit study of individual unmet medical needs
The Lancet
2013
Pregabalin versus placebo in targeting pro-nociceptive mechanisms to prevent chronic pain after whiplash injury in at-risk individuals – a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial
Trials
2018
Comprehensive physiotherapy exercise programme or advice for chronic whiplash (PROMISE): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Physiotherapy
2015
Accuracy of self‐reported private health insurance coverage
Health Economics
2023
Post‐traumatic stress disorder is associated with a higher rate of polypectomy independent of an increased frequency of colonoscopy in Australian veterans: a retrospective review
Internal Medicine Journal
2022
Supply-side solutions targeting demand-side characteristics: causal effects of a chronic disease management program on adherence and health outcomes
The European Journal of Health Economics
2022
Pregabalin vs placebo to prevent chronic pain after whiplash injury in at-risk individuals: results of a feasibility study for a large randomised controlled trial
Pain
2021
The CKD.QLD data linkage framework: chronic kidney disease and health services utilisation in Queensland, Australia
F1000Research
2021
Weather and children's time allocation
Health Economics
2021
Who's declining the “free lunch”? New evidence from the uptake of public child dental benefits
Health Economics
2020
Sustainability of Publicly Funded Health Care Systems: What Does Behavioural Economics Offer?
PharmacoEconomics
2020
The Nature of Whiplash in a Compensable Environment: Injury, Disability, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Systems
Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy
2017
Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries' macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants' mental health
Health Economics
2017
Reducing Medical Admissions into Hospital through Optimising Medicines (REMAIN HOME) Study: protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial
BMJ Open
2017
Testing for asymmetric information in insurance markets: A test for ex ante moral hazard revisited
Economics Letters
2017
The Dynamics of Informal Care Provision in an Australian Household Panel Survey: Previous Work Characteristics and Future Care Provision
Economic Record
2017
Economic evaluation of fecal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of recurrentClostridium difficileinfection in Australia
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
2016
Determinants of road traffic safety: New evidence from Australia using state-space analysis
Accident Analysis & Prevention
2016
Implementation of a guideline-based clinical pathway of care to improve health outcomes following whiplash injury (Whiplash ImPaCT): protocol of a randomised, controlled trial
Journal of Physiotherapy
2016
Economic evaluation favours physiotherapy but not corticosteroid injection as a first-line intervention for chronic lateral epicondylalgia: evidence from a randomised clinical trial
British Journal of Sports Medicine
2015
The effects of parental leave on child health and postnatal care: Evidence from Australia
Economic Analysis and Policy
2016
Two Tests forEx AnteMoral Hazard in a Market for Automobile Insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance
2016
Cost-effectiveness of a bivalent human papillomavirus vaccination program in Japan
Sexual Health
2015
Economic Evaluation of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for The Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection In Australia
Value in Health
2015
Estimating the Monetary Value of Relief of Tennis Elbow: A Contingent Valuation Study of Willingness-To-Pay
Value in Health
2015
Dry-needling and exercise for chronic whiplash-associated disorders
Pain
2015
Does school type affect cognitive and non-cognitive development in children? Evidence from Australian primary schools
Labour Economics
2015
WHAT ROLES DO CONTEMPORANEOUS AND CUMULATIVE INCOMES PLAY IN THE INCOME-CHILD HEALTH GRADIENT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN? EVIDENCE FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PANEL
Health Economics
2013
Health Policy and Equity of Health Care Financing in Australia: 1973-2010
Review of Income and Wealth
2014
The University of Queensland study of physical and psychological outcomes for claimants with minor and moderate injuries following a road traffic crash (UQ SuPPORT): design and methods
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2014
Determinants of foodservice satisfaction for patients in geriatrics/rehabilitation and residents in residential aged care
Health Expectations
2011
Are road traffic crash fatality rates converging among OECD countries?
Accident Analysis & Prevention
2013
Erratum: Insurance Rebates, Incentives and Primary Care in Australia
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
2012
Research on injury compensation and health outcomes: ignoring the problem of reverse causality led to a biased conclusion
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
2012
Does injury compensation lead to worse health after whiplash? A systematic review
Pain
2012
Cost minimization analysis of laparoscopic sacral colpopexy and total vaginal mesh
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2012
Health policy and horizontal inequities of health-care utilization in Australia: 1983–2005
Applied Economics Letters
2012
Insurance Rebates, Incentives and Primary Care in Australia
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
2012
Reply
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2012
Unmet need and met unneed in health care utilisation in Iran
International Journal of Social Economics
2012
Complexities in Understanding the Role of Compensation-Related Factors on Recovery From Whiplash-Associated Disorders
Spine
2011
Whiplash and the Compensation Hypothesis
Spine
2011
Financial incentives and the health workforce
Australian Health Review
2011
What are the True Costs of Major Trauma?
Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care
2011
Is compensation “bad for health”? A systematic meta-review
Injury
2011
Are we there yet? Australian road safety targets and road traffic crash fatalities
BMC Public Health
2011
Response to Cassidy JD, et al.
Injury
2011
Foodservice satisfaction domains in geriatrics, rehabilitation and aged care
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
2010
Risk equalisation and voluntary health insurance markets: The case of Australia
Health Policy
2010
Labour market outcomes for people with a spinal cord injury
Economics & Human Biology
2010
Equity of Health Care Financing in Iran: The Effect of Extending Health Insurance to the Uninsured
Oxford Development Studies
2010
The Economic Characteristics of Registries and Their Policy Implications
Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care
2009
A randomised clinical trial of a comprehensive exercise program for chronic whiplash: trial protocol
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
2009
Dry needling and exercise for chronic whiplash - a randomised controlled trial
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
2009
Optimising corticosteroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia with the addition of physiotherapy: A protocol for a randomised control trial with placebo comparison
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
2009
Personal assistance, income and employment: the spinal injuries survey instrument (SISI) and its application in a sample of people with quadriplegia
Spinal Cord
2008
Earning and Conversion Handicaps and the Welfare Economics of Disability
International Journal of Disability Management
2008
Health outcomes of adults 3 months after injury
Injury
2007
Lifetime Subsidies in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets with Community Rating
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice
2006
Lifetime Cover in Private Insurance Markets
International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
2005
Market failure in long-term private health insurance markets: a proposed solution
Applied Economics Letters
2005
Economics and health promotion
The European Journal of Health Economics, formerly: HEPAC
2004
Balancing the number and size of sites: an economic approach to the optimal design of cluster samples
Controlled Clinical Trials
2003
A note on the decomposition of the health concentration index
Health Economics
2003
The paternity of the price-quality ‘value map’
Applied Economics Letters
2003
An economic evaluation of plasma production via erythroplasmapheresis and whole blood collection
Transfusion and Apheresis Science
2002
Preventing the Wernicke‐Korsakoff syndrome in Australia: cost‐effectiveness of thiamin‐supplementation alternatives
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
1996
ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT POLICIES FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONER LOCATION: INFORMATION, PRICES AND INCOMES
Prometheus
1995

Education

University of Queensland

PhD, School of Economics / June, 1999

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

University of Queensland

Master of Economic Studies, School of Economics / December, 1993

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

University of Queensland

Bachelor of Arts (Economics), School of Economics / November, 1991

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Experience

The University of Bologna

Professor

The University of Queensland

Professor of Health Economics / May, 2015Present

Professor of Health Economics and Associate Director / January, 2008August, 2015

Associate Professor and Associate Director / May, 2003December, 2007

Queensland University of Technology

Senior Lecturer in Economics / May, 2000April, 2003

Lecturer / January, 1998April, 2000

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