DrPaula Cronin

Paula Cronin is a health service researcher and health economist at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) where she has been employed as a part-time Research Fellow since 2006. During this time, she has worked largely in the Economic Evaluation team. Paula main research interest is in the economics of childhood. In 2018, she completed her PhD in health economics at UTS. The title of her thesis was 'The Economic Impact of Childhood Developmental Language Disorder'. Paula also has a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Public Health .

Paula is a member of the Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST), which is national cancer-focussed health economics service funded by Cancer Australia as part of their Support for Clinical Trials program. She is an invited member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee Evaluation sub-committee (2017-2020). This role involves evaluating applications for new medical services to be funded on the MBS, which directly impacts national health policy. In 2012, she was an invited panel member for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Cost Recovery Review for the Commonwealth Department of Health. The conclusions of this review were used to inform pharmaceutical benefits reforms.