Dr Sean Docking is a Senior Research Fellow within the Musculoskeletal Health and Wiser Healthcare Units in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. 

Sean is a health economist and health services researcher. His research focuses on building capacity to perform economic evaluations for musculoskeletal health and develop novel economic methods to estimate the impact of low-value care and effectiveness of strategies aimed at reducing it. This includes trial- and model-based economic evaluations, budget impact analyses, systematic reviews, and healthcare market analyses.

He is co-chair of the Economic Methods Group within the NHMRC-funded Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal (ANZMUSC) Clinical Trials Network, leading the development of practical tools to guide economic evaluation within musculoskeletal trials.

Sean has generated policy-relevant and impactful research.

• His work revealing corporate ownership within the Australian diagnostic imaging sector resulted in an article in The Conversation and interview with Dr Norman Swan on ABC Radio National.
• He led the economic evaluation of a national non-surgical management program for knee OA that provided critical evidence that has received media attention and informed policy initiatives.
• As sole Debble Summer Research Scholar, he produced an Issues Brief on Diagnostic Errors related to medical imaging the has informed the Australian Governments Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme.

He has completed or currently undertaking economic evaluations for projects funded by HCF Research Foundation, SaferCare Victoria, Cabrini Research Foundation and Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network.