Professor Jeff Richardson

Profile: Professor Jeff Richardson is a Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and Foundation Director of the Centre for Health Economics. Previously he was an Associate Professor in the School of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. For six years he was a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Health Economics Research Unit where he was also the Acting Director in 1985.

He received his doctorate in 1978 for a dissertation on the economics of health insurance. Subsequent research interests have included the econometric modelling of hospital and medical supply and demand, analyses of doctors' incomes and practices, medical fees, alcohol, international health care systems, the chiropractic industry, the effects of privatisation and regulation in Australia, health care technology and its diffusion, the economics of voluntary euthanasia, the health care problems of Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Fiji, conceptual and ethical issues in the use of cost utility analysis, resource based medical fees, health outcomes, the creation of an MAU instrument for the evaluation of quality adjusted life years, the financing and delivery of health promotion, and the reform of the Australian health sector.

Professor Richardson has worked with the World Health Organisation, the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is on the editorial boards of five journals including Health Economics and the Journal of Health Economics. He was on the Scientific Committee of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Conferences of the International Health Economists Association. He is a member of the Pharmaceutical Remuneration Tribunal and was the President of the Australian Health Economists' Group from 1984 to 1991.