Bonny Parkinson

from Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

Bio

Bonny is an Associate Professor at MUCHE (2022-). Previously she was a Senior Researcher at MUCHE (2015-2021), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) (2009-2015). She has also worked at AstraZeneca in the United Kingdom as a senior health economist, Access Economics in Canberra as a senior economist, and the Social Policy Evaluation and Research Centre at the Australian National University as an Assistant researcher.

Bonny’s expertise is in pharmaceutical policy in Australia, researching economic evaluation of healthcare interventions and technologies methodology, particularly in the fields of genomics, cancer and hearing, and analysing linked administrative data to inform economic evaluations. She currently leads the health technology assessment stream, and has been involved in over 50 evaluations of submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), 6 evaluations of submissions to the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) and the National Diabetes Subsidy Scheme (NDSS) since 2009. To date, she has been the recipient of career research funding of over $27.0 million spread over 26 grants and has 38 peer-reviewed journal articles.

She was a member of the Ezetimibe Review Reference Group for the Australian Government Department of Health (2016-2017), and is currently a member of the NSW Cancer Council’s Pathways Scientific Advisory Committee on Colorectal Cancer and Lynch Syndrome (2018 -) and the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance Health Economics Alongside Trials Special Interest Group (ACTA HEAT SIG). She is currently on the editorial board of Pharmacoeconomics, and is an associate editor of Oxford Open Economics.

Her PhD was on “Pharmaceutical Policy in Australia: Developing Methods to Manage Uncertainty in Health Technology Assessment”, for which she received the UTS Chancellor’s List award in 2016. She's also been awarded the Australian Health Economics Society Rising Star award (2022), the Macquarie University Academic Staff Award for Excellence in Research (Healthy People) (2017), and the UTS Research Excellence Through Partnership award (2013).

Bonny has excellent skills in presenting complex economic research in ways that captivates an audience’s attention and is understandable. She teaches health economics as part of the Masters of Public Health (2017-) and regularly teaches short courses on economic evaluation.

For more information, see here: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/bonny-parkinson