The Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST) has been set up at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) within the University of Technology Sydney, as part of the Cancer Australia Support for Clinical Trials program.
About CREST
CREST
As part of the Cancer Australia Support for Clinical Trials program, the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) has been contracted to provide a dedicated Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST) for the provision of high quality, expert advice and support to the Multi-site Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Groups (CTGs).
In turn, CREST will play an important part in ensuring that the CTGs produce high-quality economic evidence able to be incorporated into future decision-making, and ultimately contribute to providing patients with improved access to cost-effective cancer treatments.
CHERE regards this service as vitally important to the development of health economics, and ultimately to improved access for patients to cost-effective cancer treatments in Australia. We look forward to continuing to work with all the CTGs to develop and conduct world’s best health economic analysis alongside clinical trials in the field of cancer care.
CHERE
The Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) is a Research Strength of the University of Technology Sydney and is recognised nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence in health economics and health services research. CHERE was established in 1991 and became a centre at UTS in 2002.
CHERE's aim is to contribute to the development and application of health economics and health services research through research, teaching and policy support. CHERE contributes to the university's mission through:
- Achieving research excellence through knowledge creation and dissemination
- Using research outcomes to contribute to the development of health policy and practice
- Providing informed commentary to community debate on health policy, and
- Providing health sector relevant education to facilitate the application of economic analysis to health policy and practice
Our people
CREST is guided by a senior management team.
Executive members
| Prof Rosalie Viney Director of CHERE and co-lead for CREST |
| A/Prof Richard De Abreu Lourenco Associate Professor at CHERE and co-lead for CREST |
| Lutfun Hossain Program manager for CREST |
Expert members
| Paula Cronin Senior Research Fellow at CHERE |
| Stephen Goodall Professor, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation |
| Kees van Gool Deputy Director of CHERE, Professor in Health Economics |
| Jane Hall Director of Strategy and Professor in Health Economics |
| Patsy Kenny Senior Research Fellow at CHERE |
| Deborah Street Professor in Health Economics | |
| Ruth Webster Senior Research Fellow at CHERE |
Research members
| Sheena Arora Research Fellow at CHERE |
| Anna Crothers Research Fellow at CHERE | |
| Terence Khoo Research Fellow at CHERE |
| Brendan Mulhern Senior Research Fellow at CHERE |
| Sopany Saing Research Fellow at CHERE |
| Constanza Vargas Research Fellow at CHERE |
