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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
- 6 Active
Disability, social mobility and the wellbeing of people with disabilities
Kavanagh, A. M., LaMontagne, A. D., Petrie, D. J., 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. J., 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. J., 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. J., Paul, C. L., Richmond, R. L. & Ferguson, S.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Understanding the Dynamics of Socioeconomic Related Health Inequalities
1/01/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
Research Output 2009 2017
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. 23 Jun 2017 (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Public Health. 9 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Graphical tools for monitoring inequality: The beauty can lie (in the details)
Kjellsson, G. & Petrie, D. Jul 2017 In : Epidemiology. 604-607, 4, 4 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Comment / Debate
Growth of linked hospital data use in Australia: a systematic review
Tew, M., Dalziel, K. M., Petrie, D. J. & Clarke, P. M. 2017 In : Australian Health Review. 41, 4, p. 394-400 7 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Predicting the long term gains in health related quality of life after total knee arthroplasty
Schilling, C. G., Dowsey, M. M., Petrie, D. J., Clarke, P. M. & Choong, P. F. Feb 2017 In : Journal of Arthroplasty. 32, 2, p. 395-401 9 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Retirement saving and mental health in China
Chen, D., Petrie, D., Tang, K. K. & Wu, D. 23 May 2017 (Accepted/In press) In : Health Promotion International. 11 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Article