Bridget Browne
Australian National University
Bridget Browne
Bridget is a practitioner and researcher in aged care and disability issues, principally costing and pricing approaches.
Currently with the Australian Government Actuary, Bridget was previously a Partner in EY’s actuarial services group providing actuarial consulting advice principally to the government sector in human services and risk quantification. Bridget has over 35 years’ experience in life course risks both in Australia and internationally and is both a Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. Bridget has deep experience dealing with data collection, reporting, and analysis and in the effective use of analytics to support the development of evidence-based policy and practice.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Australia; |
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| Topics | Care economy; Cost-containment in LTC; Costs of LTC; Data science; Economics of LTC; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Long term care subsidies; LTC insurance; Outcome measurement in LTC; Quasi-markets in LTC; Shaping LTC markets and provider behaviour; Social Insurance; Sustainability; Value of LTC; |
| Methods | Actuarial methods; Analysis of administrative data; Cost analysis; Data science and LTC research; Economic evaluation; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Mixed methods; Panel data analysis; Policy analysis; Quantitative data analysis; Simulation models; Social Return on Investment; Time series analysis; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Australian Long-Term Care Interest Group; Economics of Long-Term Care; Social Care Reform in England; |
| Website | https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/bridget-browne/ |
| Research interests | Aged care; Disability; Pricing; Cost studies |
| Key publications | Browne B, 2025, ‘Current issues in pricing across aged care and disability in Australia’, Prepared for the Injury and Disability Schemes Seminar, Nov 2025 HERE |