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Biography
Dennis is an Associate Professor and an ARC DECRA Fellow in the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. He was previously a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Dundee, UK. He has published extensively on the economics of illicit drugs and alcohol, the longitudinal measurement and evaluation of health inequalities and has lead a large number of economic evaluations of healthcare interventions including alongside RCTs. He has consistently published in the top health economics journals, with multiple papers in the Journal of Health Economics (3), Health Economics (5) and Social Science & Medicine (2) and also high impact medical journals including BMJ, PLOS Medicine, Diabetologia, Diabetes Care and Epidemiology. He specialises in analysing large and complex data sets to improve health policy decisions.
Research interests
Health Inequalities
Health Economics
Applied Econometrics
Economic Evaluations
Keywords
- Inequalities in Health
- Health Economics
- Econometrics
- risk and uncertainty
- Alcohol
- Cancer
- Drugs - illicit
- Disability
- Cost Effectivness
- Economic Evaluation
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Projects 2014 2021
Youth cohort: Improving Disability Employment Study (Y-IDES)
Milner, A., Kavanagh, A. M., Petrie, D., LaMontagne, A. D., Vaughan, C. & Mallett, S.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Disability, social mobility and the wellbeing of people with disabilities
Kavanagh, A. M., LaMontagne, A. D., Petrie, D., Milner, A., Simpson, J., Aitken, Z., Emerson, E. & Blakely, T.
9/03/17 → 8/03/20
Project: Research
Adding an electronic-cigarette to standard behavioural treatment for low-socioeconomic status smokers: A randomised trial.
Mattick, R., Courtney, R., Borland, R., Gartner, C., McRobbie, H. J., Petrie, D., Siahpush, M., Richmond, R., Shakeshaft, A. P. & Farrell, M. P.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health
Kavanagh, A. M., Llewellyn, G. M., Emerson, E., Petrie, D., Dickinson, H., Badland, H. M., Carey, G., Butterworth, P., Einfeld, S. & Stancliffe, R. J.
1/11/16 → 31/10/21
Project: Research
A non-inferiority trial of cytisine versus varenicline for smoking cessation
Farrell, M. P., Courtney, R., Walker, N., McRobbie, H. J., Gartner, C. E., Siahpush, M., Petrie, D., Paul, C. L., Richmond, R. L. & Ferguson, S.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Research Output 2006 2019
Do psychosocial job stressors influence mental health service use? Evidence from an Australian cohort
Milner, A., Petrie, D., LaMontagne, A. D. & Butterworth, P., 8 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Brief intervention on Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol and Physical (SNAP) inactivity for smoking relapse prevention after release from smoke-free prisons: a study protocol for a multicentre, investigator-blinded, randomised controlled trial
Jin, X., Kinner, S. A., Hopkins, R., Stockings, E., Courtney, R. J., Shakeshaft, A., Petrie, D., Dobbins, T. & Dolan, K., 18 Oct 2018, In : BMJ Open. 8, 10, p. e021326 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access
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Combining fixed effects and instrumental variable approaches for estimating the effect of psychosocial job quality on mental health: evidence from 13 waves of a nationally representative cohort study
Milner, A., Aitken, Z., Kavanagh, A. M., LaMontagne, A. D., Pega, F. & Petrie, D., May 2018, In : Journal of Public Health. 40, 2, p. 426-434 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Predictors of inpatient rehabilitation after total knee replacement: an analysis of private hospital claims data
Schilling, C., Keating, C., Barker, A., Wilson, S. F. & Petrie, D., 3 Sep 2018, In : Medical Journal of Australia. 209, 5, p. 222-227 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
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Retirement saving and mental health in China
Chen, D., Petrie, D., Tang, K. & Wu, D., 1 Oct 2018, In : Health Promotion International. 33, 5, p. 801-811 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review