Brenda Gannon
University of Queensland, School of Economics
Brenda Gannon
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Professor Brenda Gannon is a Professor in the School of Economics and Affiliate Professor at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland and an Affiliate Professor at the Mater Research Institute, The University of Queensland. She is also an affiliate member of CEPAR (ARC Centre for Research Excellence in Population Ageing Research). Since 2022, she is Honorary Adjunct Professor at University of Galway, Ireland. She was Director of Research in the School of Economics from 2018-2023. Professor Gannon is an international expert in the field of Health Economics of Ageing and has won over $30 million, as chief investigator, in collaborative research income, with economics, medicine and social science with academia and industry. She has developed a range of projects in Economics of Ageing on topics of dementia, physical activity and cognition, health shocks and health care utilization, and consumer directed care and home care. She has worked extensively on interdisciplinary research with gerontologists, clinicians and methodologists. Her work has been influential in the development of programs for falls preventions and informing policy on disability and social inclusion, and has positively impacted on the health of many older people across the world.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Countries | Australia; |
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Topics | Access to care; Care economy; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care inequalities; Data science; Dementia care and support; Economics of LTC; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Home/domiciliary care; LTC Workforce; Unmet needs; |
Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Cost analysis; Data science and LTC research; Discrete choice analysis; Economic evaluation; Longitudinal data analysis; Observational studies; Panel data analysis; Policy analysis; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Simulation models; Surveys; Trials and other evaluations; |
Role | Research; |
Interest Groups | Care home markets and regulation; Economics of Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Quasi-experimental methods; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; |
Website | https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/16432 |
https://x.com/Gannon_HealthEc | |
Research interests | Dementia, cognition, health economics and resource use, care for older people, home care, decision making |
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