About
Healthcare systems everywhere are struggling under unprecedented challenges in an era of global destabilisation and crisis. Structural demographic, epidemiological and economic trends are becoming entangled with accelerating environmental and geopolitical crises, pushing healthcare systems far outside their traditional safe operating spaces.
The Health System Resilience Group combines capabilities from health economics, ecological economics and health systems research to work with governments and industry partners to make our health services robust to crisis and disaster, and to secure access to resilient healthcare for all.
The Health System Resilience Group is part of the National Centre for Transformation in Emergency Response and Resilience (NCTERR) and the School of Paramedicine and Public Safety at the University of Tasmania.
Email: m.c.hensher@utas.edu.au
Research snapshot
- Pharmaceutical pollution in the Derwent Estuary
Identifying the occurrence, risks and drivers of pharmaceutical pollution in Hobart’s Derwent Estuary. - Carbon footprint of asthma care
Estimating the carbon footprint of inhaler use in Tasmania and its potential for reduction. - Healthcare fleet electrification
Estimating the economic and environmental benefits of introducing electric vehicles to a rural healthcare service (Western District Health Services, Victoria).
- Cost-effectiveness modelling for the National Sustainable Asthma Care Roadmap
Developing a cost-effectiveness and emissions model to compare the costs and outcomes of implementing guideline concordant asthma care with current standard care to inform implementation of the National Sustainable Asthma Care Roadmap. - Novel care model for Long COVID
CONCORD (Co-designing a novel care model for culturally and linguistically diverse communities) - Medical Research Future Fund grant to develop culturally sensitive and effective Long COVID care for culturally and linguistically diverse communities across Australia.
- Low-carbon and climate-resilient healthcare
Martin Hensher is the Chair of Working Group 4: Health Systems Transformation for the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare, leading work on low carbon and climate resilient healthcare systems and the reforms required to bring about this transformation. - Economic evaluation for climate-resilient healthcare
Martin Hensher is an expert member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on the Economics of Climate and Health, providing specialised advice to WHO on the economics of developing low carbon and climate resilient healthcare systems. He is also a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare Evaluation for the Singaporean Centre for Healthcare Innovation. - Towards an ecological health economics
Watch Martin Hensher deliver the inaugural Anne Mills Annual Health Economics Lecture at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to find out more about his work at the intersection of health, environment and resilience.
