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ARC Future Fellowship awarded to Professor Tony Scott
Congratulations to Professor Tony Scott, Director of the Health Economics Research Program, Melbourne Institute, on being awarded one of only 200 prestigious four-year Future Fellowships by the Australian Research Council.
On 9 September, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, announced the 200 outstanding national and international mid-career researchers. Senator Carr stated that "all 200 Future Fellows will conduct research into areas of national priority and will advance Australian's international research and innovation standing". Professor Scott was one of only 14 Fellowship recipients who were invited to attend Minister Carr’s function in Canberra when the Fellowships were announced.
There was a total of only 200 Fellowships awarded, covering all disciplines, with just two awarded in economics, and only 11 awarded within the social science disciplines. Researchers associated with the University of Melbourne were awarded 25 of the Fellowships.
In congratulating Professor Scott, Professor Margaret Abernethy, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Commerce and Director of the Melbourne Graduate School of Management, said that this is ’wonderful recognition of Tony's research and the standing of the Melbourne Institute and the Faculty’.
Professor Peter Rathjen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), said ‘the addition of 25 research Fellowships across the University provides a valuable opportunity for Faculties to augment the strength and range of research programs - especially welcome in these times of budgetary restraint’.
The title of Professor Scott’s project is ‘Incentives and performance in the health care system’. The research will examine changes in financial incentives for health care providers, which can have direct effects on their behaviour and influence patients' health outcomes, quality of care, and access to health care. The research will provide a richer understanding of the effects of incentives, and will influence policy on the design of incentives for health care providers in Australia. Changes in incentives will ensure patients receive more appropriate, higher quality, and less costly health care, in the most appropriate settings, and delivered by the most appropriate health care providers. This will have direct effects on population health and well-being and the capacity of individuals to lead healthy and productive lives.
The ARC Future Fellowships scheme is administered by the Australian Research Council under the National Competitive Grants Program. The Australian Government has committed funding of $844 million over five-years from 2009 for the scheme.
Information about all Future Fellows and their research projects is available at http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/futurefel/ft_outcomes.htm
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