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Conjoint Prof. David Henry

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Positions Conjoint Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office NM2-535B

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, University of Glasgow - Scotland

Research

Research keywords

  • Pharmaco-economics
  • Pharmaco-epidemiology

Research expertise

Evidence based medicine, adverse drug reactions pharmacovigilance, pharmaco-epidemiology and pharmaco-economics

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
111700 Public Health And Health Services 40
110300 Clinical Sciences 35
160508 Health Policy 25

Centres and Groups

Group

    Memberships

    Body relevant to professional practice.

    • Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharamcologists
    • International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology
    • Director - World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for training in Pharmo-economics and Rational Pharmacotherapy

    Other

    • Member, panel of referees for project grants - National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Council of New Zealand, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Medical Research Council (UK)
    • Member - South African National Medicines Pricing Committee

    Appointments

    Chair
    Medical Staff Council, Newcastle Mater Hospital (Australia)     		01/01/2007

    Awards

    Joint Winner

    2005 Eureka Skeptics Prize for Critical Thinking
    Australian Museum (Australia)
    2001 Thomas Chalmers Memorial Award
    Ninth Cochrane Colloquium, 2001 (France)

    Invitations

    Pharmaco-economics
    World Health Organisation, Australia (Consultant)
    		2007

    Administrative

    Administrative expertise

    I have been discipline head since 1997 and have also served as Head of School (Population Health Sciences) and deputy head of school (Medicine and Population Health) at different times. I am Director of the Newcastle Institute of Public Health and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Training in Pharmaco-economics and Rational Pharmacotherapy at the University of Newcastle. I am chair of medical staff council of the Newcastle Mater Hospital and have served on multiple committees, including ethics committees of the University and health service. I have been a member of several national committees concerned with drug regulation and for 8 years chaired the economics subcommittee of the Commonwealth governments Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee

    Teaching

    Teaching keywords

    • Clinical Pharmacology
    • General Medicine
    • Pharmaco-economics
    • Pharmaco-epidemiology

    Teaching expertise

    Clinical medicine, clinical pharmacology, rational drug use, pharmaco-epidemiology and pharmaco-economics