Rachael Morton – Past President

Professor Rachael Morton is a senior health economist, and Deputy Director at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney and leader in the economic evaluation of treatments for cancer and chronic diseases. She has a MScMed (Clin Epi)(Hons) and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Sydney, and her research program focuses on the incorporation of patient-centred and economic outcomes into clinical trials that facilitate policy decision making on the basis of cost-effectiveness. She currently leads economic evaluations for 15 trials including diagnostic test evaluation, surgery, digital technologies, and models of care. Her methodological research interests include patient reported outcomes for health system valuation, preference elicitation using discrete choice experiments, and value of information analysis. Prof Morton has published over 220 research articles in high impact medical and health services research journals and, with collaborators, has been awarded a career total of $80M in competitive research funding from MRFF, NHMRC, Cancer Australia, DoH and the EU.