Jeffrey Richardson PhD

Professor Jeff Richardson is a Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. He is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Health Economics, an Adjunct Associate of Stanford University, California, and an Honorary Professor at the University of South Australia. Previously he was an Associate Professor in the School of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. For six years he was a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Health Economics Research Unit. He has worked with the World Health Organization and the Australian Development Assistance Bureau.

Professor Richardson received his doctorate in 1978 for a dissertation on the economics of health insurance. Subsequent research interests have included the econometric modeling of hospital and medical supply and demand, analyses of doctors’ incomes, medical fees, medical practices, resource-based medical fees, and the effect of the growth of the doctor supply and the geographic distribution of doctors across Australia; alcohol and tobacco use, international health care systems, the chiropractic industry, the effects of privatization and regulation in Australia, health care technology and its diffusion, voluntary euthanasia, the health care problems of Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Fiji and the South Pacific, health outcomes, the creation of MAU instruments for the evaluation of quality-adjusted life years, conceptual problems with QALYs and conceptual problems with economic evaluation.

Professor Richardson has published over 155 articles in journals and has edited chapters, and 200 other reports, working papers, and notes. He has been on the editorial boards of 7 journals including Health Economics and the Journal of Health Economics, on the Scientific Committee of the International Health Economist’s Association conferences for 11 years, a member of the Pharmaceutical Remuneration Tribunal for 11 years, and was the President of the Australian Health Economics Group from 1984 to 1991. He chaired the 2004 inquiry into the Tasmanian Health System.