Mr James Doidge 

As an early career health economist, I commenced work with the Health Economics and Social Policy Group in December 2010. My early research with the group focused on the health benefits of dairy consumption and contributed towards completion of a Master of Health Economics and Policy (University of Adelaide).

I am now undertaking doctoral studies with research focusing upon improving our understanding of the health, social and economic consequences of child maltreatment.

• Having spent time working in health technology assessment (HTA) I have developed a keen and critical eye for epidemiology. There is nobody in the health sector that would not benefit from an improved understanding of epidemiological principles and research methodology.
• With training in clinical medicine, I have a special interest in furthering the understanding of health economics in clinical students and health professionals alike. It is imperative that people at the frontline of the health sector understand the problems faced by policy-makers in order for the system to operate efficiently and effectively, and of course the converse is just as true.

Member of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)

Member of the Australiasian Epidemiological Association (AEA)

Master of Health Economics and Policy (University of Adelaide)

Graduate Certificate in Economics (University of Adelaide)

Bachelor of Health Sciences (University of Adelaide)

• Health promotion and preventative healthcare, especially mental health promotion
• Downstream health, social & economic consequences of childhood maltreatment
• Health policy evaluation and development
• Health technology assessment
• Nutrition

Doidge JC, Segal L. Most Australians do not meet recommendations for dairy consumption: findings of a new technique to analyse nutrition surveys. Aust N Z J Pub Hlth [in press]

Segal L, Doidge J & Amos J (2011) Determining the determinants: is child abuse and neglect the underlying cause of the socio-economic gradient in health? In Determining the Future: A Fair Go & Health for All, [M Laverty and L Callaghan, editors]. Melbourne: Connor Court Publishing.

Doidge JC, Merlin T, Liufu Z, Tamblyn D, Jia LY, Hiller JE (2011). Review of interim funded service: Vertebroplasty and new review of Kyphoplasty. MSAC Application 27.1. Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia.

Segal L, Dalziel K, Doidge J. Health Economics of Nutrition: Adding policy relevance to clinical knowledge. Presented by L Segal at the 11th European Nutrition Conference, Madrid, Spain, 26–29 October 2011.

Doidge JC, Esterman A, Segal L. Dairy products, metabolic risk factor development and causal inference in nutrition research: revisiting the CARDIA study. Joint Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand and the Nutrition Society of Australia, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 November – 2 December 2011.