ProfBrendan Mulhern

Brendan is an Associate Professor of Health Economics and Outcomes Research. He also leads the Cancer Australia funded Cancer Quality of Life Expert Support Team (CQUEST). He joined CHERE in January 2015, and completed his PhD in August 2020.

His research expertise is in the development and assessment of preference and non-preference based measures using innovative psychometric and valuation methods including item response theory, discrete choice experiments and time trade off. This includes the development of updated versions of the two most widely used preference-based measures internationally (the EQ-5D and the SF-6D). He also has expertise in the development and testing of health state valuation methods. He has led the development of condition specific measures for use in the assessment of health interventions. This includes instruments to assess quality of life in dementia, epilepsy and diabetes.

Prior to joining UTS, the spent over five years working as a Health Economist and health outcomes researcher at the School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK. Before that he spent a number of years working as a health psychology researcher at the University of Leeds, UK, developing online interventions for alcohol use. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and a Master of Research in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, UK.