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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 2018
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
Texting to Reduce Alcohol Misuse (TRAM): main findings from a randomised controlled trial of a text message intervention to reduce binge drinking among disadvantaged men
Crombie, I. K., Irvine, L., Williams, B., Sniehotta, F. F., Petrie, D., Jones, C., Norrie, J., Evans, J. M. M., Emslie, C., Rice, P. M., Slane, P. W., Humphris, G., Ricketts, I. W., Melson, A. J., Donnan, P. T., Hapca, S., McKenzie, A. & Achison, M. 1 May 2018 (Accepted/In press) In : Addiction. 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
The impact of spousal bereavement on hospitalisations: Evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Tseng, F-M., Petrie, D., Wang, S., Macduff, C. & Stephen, A. I. Feb 2018 In : Health Economics. 27, 2, p. e120-e138 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Australian general practitioners initiate statin therapy primarily on the basis of lipid levels; New Zealand general practitioners use absolute risk
Schilling, C., Knight, J., Mortimer, D., Petrie, D., Clarke, P., Chalmers, J., Kerr, A. & Jackson, R. 1 Dec 2017 In : Health Policy. 121, 12, p. 1233-1239 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › 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: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate