Dr Hannah Carter
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Dr Hannah Carter is a health economist and senior research fellow based at QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) where she co-leads the centre's Hospital Services research program. She holds a PhD in health economics from the University of Sydney and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Queensland. Prior to joining QUT, Hannah held roles at Queensland Treasury and at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, based at the University of Sydney.Hannah leads a multidisciplinary program of work that embeds rigorous economic evaluation within clinical trials and health services research projects. She has expertise in methods to estimate the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions across both trial-based and modelled approaches. A key focus of her work is improving care for people at the end of life, including the use of choice experiments to understand care preferences held by older people and their families. Other research interests include the evaluation of integrated and virtual models of care with the aim of improving patient access and experience. Consistent with her health services research focus, Hannah is advancing research methods that sit at the intersection of health economics and implementation science.
Hannah serves as a member of Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee: Economics Sub-Committee where she provides advice on the economic considerations of drugs submitted for listing on the PBS. She is a member of the NHMRC Targeted Call for Research Prioritisation Working Committee where she advises on community driven research needs.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Research Fellow - Health Economics
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
health economics, cost-effectiveness, health services, discrete choice experiments, end-of-life, economic evaluation, decision analysis, patient reported outcome measures, productivity, palliative care
Research field
Applied Economics, Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Sydney)
- Bachelor of Economics (University of Sydney)
Professional memberships and associations
Australian Health Economics Society, International Health Economics Association
Publications
- Xia, Q., Kularatna, M., Virdun, C., Button, E., Close, E. & Carter, H. (2023). Preferences for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review of Discrete Choice Experiments. Value in Health, 26(12), 1795–1809. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/242834
- Carter, H., Winch, S., Barnett, A., Parker, M., Gallois, C., Willmott, L., White, B., Patton, M., Burridge, L., Salkield, G., Close, E., Callaway, L. & Graves, N. (2017). Incidence, duration and cost of futile treatment in end-of-life hospital admissions to three Australian public-sector tertiary hospitals: a retrospective multicentre cohort study. BMJ Open, 7(10), 1–7. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112686
- Carter, H., Wallis, S., McGowan, K., Graves, N., Pitt, R., Coffey, S., Phillips, R. & Parcell, M. (2023). Economic evaluation of an integrated virtual care programme for people with chronic illness who are frequent users of health services in Australia. BMJ Open, 13(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/239257
- Carter, H., Allen, M., Toohey, L., McPhail, S. & Drew, M. (2023). Alternative Reimbursement Models for Health Providers in High-Performance Sport: Stakeholder Experiences and Perceptions. Sports Medicine - Open, 9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241954
- Carter, H., Waugh, J., Chang, A., Shelton, D., David, M., Weir, K., Levitt, D., Carty, C., Frakking, T. & other, a. (2022). Cost-Effectiveness of Care Coordination for Children With Chronic Noncomplex Medical Conditions: Results From a Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial. Value in Health, 25(11), 1837–1845. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234327
- Carter, H., Jeffrey, G., Ramm, G. & Gordon, L. (2021). Cost-Effectiveness of a Serum Biomarker Test for Risk-Stratified Liver Ultrasound Screening for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Value in Health, 24(10), 1454–1462. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211718
- Carter, H., Knowles, D., Moroney, T., Holtmann, G., Rhahan, T., Appleyard, M., Steele, N., Zanco, M. & Graves, N. (2019). The use of modelling studies to inform planning of health services: case study of rapidly increasing endoscopy services in Australia. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), 1–8. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132372
- Carter, H., Schofield, D. & Shrestha, R. (2017). The long-term productivity impacts of all cause premature mortality in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 41(2), 137–143. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/106727
- Donovan, T., Abell, B., Fernando, M., McPhail, S. & Carter, H. (2023). Implementation costs of hospital-based computerised decision support systems: a systematic review. Implementation Science, 18(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238262
- Carter, H., Lee, X., Dwyer, T., O’Neill, B., Jeffrey, D., Doran, C., Parkinson, L., Osborne, S., Reid-Searl, K. & Graves, N. (2020). The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a hospital avoidance program in a residential aged care facility: A prospective cohort study and modelled decision analysis. BMC Geriatrics, 20. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207080
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Hannah, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Health care delivery at the end of life: economic methods to improve value for patients, carers, and society
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 2026668
- Start year
- 2025
- Keywords
- economic evaluation; costs; end-of-life decision making; data linkage; consumer preferences
- Title
- An Early Detection Program to Prevent Unnecessary Hospital Admissions of Aged Care Residents
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1177501
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- aged care; hospitalisation; nursing care; early detection; deterioration
- Title
- NAVICARE: Implementing, scaling up and sustaining a co-designed care navigation model to improve mental health service access in regional Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 2018981
- Start year
- 2022
- Keywords
- Mental health services; Mental Health Promotion; Implementation; Health economics; Rural and Remote Health Services
- Title
- The Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform Trial
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1184238
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Measuring National Productivity Impacts of Chronic Ill Health on Patients and Carers and the Potential Benefits of Health and Policy
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1181228
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- The PeriWarm Trial: Transforming perioperative temperature management for better patient outcomes
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 2015532
- Start year
- 2023
- Keywords
- Title
- Eliminating Harm from Devices Across the Life Span in Critical Illness: The DEFENCE Study
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 2022546
- Start year
- 2023
- Keywords
- Nursing care; Early prevention; P\ressure ulcers; Critical care; Evidence-based clinical practice
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Methods for costing the implementation of digital health innovations
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven McPhail, Dr Bridget Abell - the Application of Virtual Care Solutions for Improving Patient-Centred Health Services and System Efficiency
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven McPhail, Dr Michelle Allen - HOME-SPACE: cHaracterising Optimal Measures for Enabling Specialist PAlliative CarE at Home, a mixed-methods project
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Jane Phillips - Assessing programme development, effectiveness, and sustainability: The Preventative Integrated Care Service Evaluation
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sundresan Naicker, Professor Steven McPhail - Digital health solutions for improving ambulatory care utilisation
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Associate Professor Sanjeewa Kularatna, Professor Steven McPhail - Chronic wet cough in children: Economic burden of disease and aetiology
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Julie Marchant, Adjunct Professor Nicholas Graves, Professor Steven McPhail, Professor Anne Chang