Professor Tony Scott FASSA

Professor Tony Scott FASSA
BA (Hons)(Newcastle-upon-Tyne), MSc (York), PhD (Aberdeen)



Economics


2016

Profile

My goal is to influence health policy using high quality research. I am Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School. Previously, I led health economics research at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. I am an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, immediate Past President of the Australian Health Economics Society, and was a Board Director of the International Health Economics Association. I have been an ARC Future Fellow and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow. 

Appointments


May 2023 - Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University

May 2004 - Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne

Jan 2006 - Honorary Professor, Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen.

Oct 2005 - Adjunct Professorial Fellow, Centre for Health Policy, School of Population and Global Health, The University f Melbourne.

Awards

Sept 2016 - Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Jan 2014 to Dec 2015 NHMRC Principal Research Fellow

Jan 2009 to Dec 2013 Honorary NHMRC Principal Research Fellow

Jan 2010 to Dec 2013 ARC Future Fellow

Selected Publications

Gravelle H, Scott A, Sivey P, Yong J. Competition, prices, and quality in the market for physicians. Journal of Industrial Economics 2016; 64(1): 135–169.

Scott A, Liu M, Yong J. Financial incentives to encourage value-based health care. Medical Care Research and Review. 2016: 1-30.

Scott A, Yong J. Do new workforce roles reduce waiting times in ED? A difference-in-difference evaluation using hospital administrative data. Health Policy 2015:119;488-493

Scott A, Joyce C. The Future of Medical Careers. Medical Journal of Australia 2014: 21;201(2):82-3.

Scott A., Witt J, Humphreys J, Joyce C, Kalb G, Jeon S, McGrail M. Getting doctors into the bush: General Practitioners' preferences for rural location. Social Science and Medicine 2013; 96:33-44.

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