Brenda Gannon
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Professor
Brenda Gannon
Email: : brenda.gannon@uq.edu.au
Phone: : +61 7 334 63483
Positions
Affiliate Professor of Mater Research Institute-UQ : Mater Research Institute-UQ : Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Affiliate of Queensland Digital Health Centre : Queensland Digital Health Centre : Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Affiliate of University of Queensland Centre for Hearing Research (CHEAR) : Centre for Hearing Research : Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Professor : School of Economics : Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Overview
Background
Professor Brenda Gannon is an international interdisciplinary leader providing evidence and solutions for health and social care systems, spanning across economics, medicine and social science, in collaboration with academia and industry. She brings extensive experience and expertise in program and policy development related to health and ageing, social inclusion, and citizen science, fostering and advancing excellence at the intersection of many disciplines.
Working at the interface of health service delivery, strategic planning and practice influence, and health economics more broadly, across many sectors, enables her research to inform optimisation of health care and workforce organisation. The models are translatable and transferrable across many sectors, including ageing, mental health, child and the working populations.
She is a Professor in the School of Economics and an Affiliate Professor at the Mater Research Institute, The University of Queensland. She is also an affiliate member of CEPAR (ARC Centre for Research Excellence in Population Ageing Research). Since 2022, she is Honorary Adjunct Professor at University of Galway, Ireland. She was Director of Research in the School of Economics from 2018-2023. . She has developed a range of projects on topics of dementia, physical activity and cognition, health and health care utilization, and consumer directed care and home care. She has led and worked extensively on interdisciplinary research with gerontologists,several clinicians and methodologists. Her work has been influential in the development of programs for falls preventions and informing policy on disability and social inclusion, and has positively impacted on the health of many older people across the world. Her work also spans across the lifecyle from birth, and she has worked with clinicians on trials for newborns with breathing difficulities. She is the Health Economics and Epidemiology lead for the Queensland Family Cohort (QFC) Study, the pilot led by Mater Research, and is on the QFC Governance Committee, focusing on maternal mental health, inequalities of opportunity, alcohol use and related health care use and costs.
Professor Gannon’s research carries a dual role, (1) as an applied health economist using big and complex data, utilising health economics theory and concepts to test the validity of causal hypotheses, (2) collaborator across all Faculties leading critical economic evaluations. Her research is funded by her position as chief investigator on projects from the Australian Research Council, National Health and Medical Research Council, MRFF, EU H2020, Health Research Board, Ireland and the National Institute for Health Research, UK. She is the lead economist on projects in dementia, emergency care and paediatric care. All studies incorporate methodological innovations and applied research. She has provided advice to government at senior levels, and had a Ministerial appointment, on the Medical Services Advisory Committee Evaluation Sub-Committee 2017-2021. She sits regularly as a panel member of various NHMRC and MRFF grant review committees and has also previously appointed to the EU Commission grant panels. She has been invited to give several talks at international fora, including a key note talk on ageing and longevity at the National Academy of Medicine, Global Roadmap to Healthy Longevity, in Washington DC. Professor Gannon was an elected Professorial member of the Academic Board at UQ 2018-2022. In 2023, Professor Gannon was elected a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been elected as a Council Member of Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2024. In 2023, she led a symposium on Economics of Dementia Care, with international colleagues, in collaboration with Dementia Australia.
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Availability
Professor Brenda Gannon is: : Not available for supervision : Media expert
Fields of research
Aged health care Applied economics Economics Health Sciences Health economics Health equity Health services and systems Health systems Implementation science and evaluation Mental health services People with disability Public health Social determinants of health
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Ireland
Research interests
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Economics of ageing and decision making
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Research impacts
Professor Brenda Gannon is an international interdisciplinary leader providing evidence and solutions for health and social care systems, spanning across economics, medicine and social science, in collaboration with academia and industry. She brings extensive experience and expertise in program and policy development related to health, social inclusion, and citizen science, fostering and advancing excellence at the intersection of many disciplines.
Professor Gannon is an award winning HDR supervisor, mentoring several HDR students and post doctorate students, in UQ and globally, in the International Health Economics Association and Australian Health Economics Society mentoring programs. She has mentored early career researchers into academia, research, consultancy and industry jobs, for example, Deloitte Economics, Monash University, Australian National University, University of York and GSK.
She serves on the International Health Economics Association Student Prize Committee, 2025-28.
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Works
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Featured
2021
Journal Article
The regional effect of the consumer directed care model for older people in Australia
Tran, My (Michelle) and Gannon, Brenda (2021). The regional effect of the consumer directed care model for older people in Australia. Social Science and Medicine, 280 114017, 114017. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114017
The regional effect of the consumer directed care model for older people in Australia
2025
Conference Publication
Clinical implementation of a nonpharmacological intervention for people with dementia & their caregivers: a mixed-methods pilot study
Bennett, Sally, Clemson, Lindy, Gannon, Brenda, Russell, Trevor, O’Reilly, Maria, Laver, Kate, Beattie, Elizabeth, Low, Lee-Fay, Pighills, Alison, Liddle, Jacki, O’Connor, Claire, Khan, Asad, Smith, Sandra, Travers, Catherine, Smets, Monique, Byrne, Gerard, Aplin, Tammy and Gitlin, Laura (2025). Clinical implementation of a nonpharmacological intervention for people with dementia & their caregivers: a mixed-methods pilot study. 2025 AOTA Annual Conference and Expo, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 3-5 April 2025. Bethesda MD, United States: AOTA Press. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2025.79s2-po445
2025
Journal Article
Trends in endometriosis interventions: an interrupted time series analysis following the Australian National Action Plan for Endometriosis (NAPE) 2018
Chinaka, Chiemeka C., Gannon, Brenda and Doust, Jenny (2025). Trends in endometriosis interventions: an interrupted time series analysis following the Australian National Action Plan for Endometriosis (NAPE) 2018. Australian Health Review, 49 (4) AH25047, 1-7. doi: 10.1071/ah25047
2025
Journal Article
Effectiveness of nasal high-flow oxygen during apnoea on hypoxaemia and intubation success in paediatric emergency and ICU settings: a randomised, controlled, open-label trial
George, Shane, Williams, Tara, Humphreys, Susan, Atkins, Tiffany, Tingay, David, Gelbart, Ben, Pham, Trang, Craig, Simon, Erickson, Simon, Chavan, Arjun, Rasmussen, Katie, Ganeshalingham, Anusha, Oberender, Felix, Ganu, Subodh, Singhal, Nitesh, Gibbons, Kristen, Le Marsney, Renate, Burren, Juerg, Schlapbach, Luregn J., Gannon, Brenda, Jones, Mark, Dalziel, Stuart R and Schibler, Andreas (2025). Effectiveness of nasal high-flow oxygen during apnoea on hypoxaemia and intubation success in paediatric emergency and ICU settings: a randomised, controlled, open-label trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 13 (6), 545-555. doi: 10.1016/s2213-2600(25)00074-8
2025
Journal Article
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?
Dhingra, Aarushi, Gannon, Brenda, Connelly, Luke and Mishra, Gita (2025). Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?. Economics and Human Biology, 57 101491, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101491
Equity in use and financing of assisted reproductive technologies: Does income matter?
2025
Journal Article
Examining the magnitude of inequality and inequity in use of healthcare resources among older Australians with cognitive decline
Gannon, Brenda, Aung, Phyo Myat, Dhingra, Aarushi and Zhou, Yaying (2025). Examining the magnitude of inequality and inequity in use of healthcare resources among older Australians with cognitive decline. International Journal for Equity in Health, 24 (1) 76, 76-1. doi: 10.1186/s12939-025-02432-3
2025
Journal Article
Cost‐effectiveness of the tailored activity programme for person with dementia‐caregiver dyads: A Markov Model
Gannon, Brenda, Vo, Vinh, Gitlin, Laura N. and Bennett, Sally (2025). Cost‐effectiveness of the tailored activity programme for person with dementia‐caregiver dyads: A Markov Model. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 40 (2) e70049, 1-12. doi: 10.1002/gps.70049
2024
Journal Article
Exploring the social value and design preferences for a home-based dementia community program in Australia
Lenzen, Sabrina, Gannon, Brenda, Norman, Richard, Bennett, Sally, Clemson, Lindy and Gitlin, Laura (2024). Exploring the social value and design preferences for a home-based dementia community program in Australia. The European Journal of Health Economics, 26 (5), 777-795. doi: 10.1007/s10198-024-01738-3
2024
Journal Article
Hospital costs for unplanned re-admissions within 30 days of hospitalisations with heart failure, Australia, 2013–2017: a retrospective cohort study
Dang, Trang, Chan, Wandy, Khawaja, Sunnya, Fryar, James, Gannon, Brenda, Kularatna, Sanjeewa, Parsonage, William and Ranasinghe, Isuru (2024). Hospital costs for unplanned re-admissions within 30 days of hospitalisations with heart failure, Australia, 2013–2017: a retrospective cohort study. Medical Journal of Australia, 221 (6), 317-323. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52424
2024
Journal Article
Cost‐effectiveness of nasal high‐flow in children with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure
Gannon, Brenda, Franklin, Donna, Vo, Vinh, Babl, Franz E. and Schibler, Andreas (2024). Cost‐effectiveness of nasal high‐flow in children with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 60 (6), 229-239. doi: 10.1111/jpc.16558
Cost‐effectiveness of nasal high‐flow in children with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure
2023
Journal Article
The relationship between physical activity, cognitive function and health care use: a mediation analysis
Lenzen, Sabrina, Gannon, Brenda, Rose, Christiern and Norton, Edward C. (2023). The relationship between physical activity, cognitive function and health care use: a mediation analysis. Social Science and Medicine, 335 116202, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116202
2023
Conference Publication
Potentially preventable health care costs associated with unplanned 30-day readmissions following hospitalisation for heart failure
Dang, T., Chan, W., Khawaja, S., Fryar, J., Gannon, B., Kularatna, S., Parsonage, W. and Ranasinghe, I. (2023). Potentially preventable health care costs associated with unplanned 30-day readmissions following hospitalisation for heart failure. 71st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, SA Australia, 3-6 August 2023. Chatswood, NSW Australia: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2023.06.753
2023
Journal Article
The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market
Tran, My, Gannon, Brenda and Rose, Christiern (2023). The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market. Journal of Health Economics, 88 102737, 1-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102737
2023
Journal Article
Effect of early high-flow nasal oxygen vs standard oxygen therapy on length of hospital stay in hospitalized children with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: the PARIS-2 randomized clinical trial
Franklin, Donna, Babl, Franz E., George, Shane, Oakley, Ed, Borland, Meredith L., Neutze, Jocelyn, Acworth, Jason, Craig, Simon, Jones, Mark, Gannon, Brenda, Shellshear, Deborah, McCay, Hamish, Wallace, Alexandra, Hoeppner, Tobias, Wildman, Mark, Mattes, Joerg, Pham, Trang M. T., Miller, Letitia, Williams, Amanda, O’Brien, Sharon, Lawrence, Shirley, Bonisch, Megan, Gibbons, Kristen, Moloney, Susan, Waugh, John, Hobbins, Sue, Grew, Simon, Fahy, Rose, Dalziel, Stuart R. and Schibler, Andreas (2023). Effect of early high-flow nasal oxygen vs standard oxygen therapy on length of hospital stay in hospitalized children with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: the PARIS-2 randomized clinical trial. JAMA, 329 (3), 224-234. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.21805
2022
Journal Article
Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: evidence from linked national Medicare claims data
Jayawardana, Danusha, Gannon, Brenda, Doust, Jenny and Mishra, Gita D. (2022). Excess healthcare costs of psychological distress in young women: evidence from linked national Medicare claims data. Health Economics, 32 (3), 715-734. doi: 10.1002/hec.4641
2022
Journal Article
The social predictors of paternal antenatal mental health and their associations with maternal mental health in the Queensland Family Cohort prospective study
Dixson, Barnaby J.W., Borg, Danielle, Rae, Kym M., Whittingha, Koa, Gannon, Brenda, McPhail, Steven M., Carter, Hannah E., Moritz, Karen M., Boyd, Roslyn N., Bora, Samudragupta, Kumar, Sailesh, Frater, Julanne, Schweitzer, Daniel, Miller, Paul, Mehter, Divya and Clifton, Vicki L. (2022). The social predictors of paternal antenatal mental health and their associations with maternal mental health in the Queensland Family Cohort prospective study. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 26 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s00737-022-01257-1
2022
Journal Article
Associations between COVID-19 lockdown and post-lockdown on the mental health of pregnant women, postpartum women and their partners from the Queensland family cohort prospective study
Clifton, Vicki L., Kumar, Sailesh, Borg, Danielle, Rae, Kym M., Boyd, Roslyn N., Whittingham, Koa, Moritz, Karen M., Carter, Hannah E., McPhail, Steven M., Gannon, Brenda, Ware, Robert, Dixson, Barnaby J. W., Bora, Samudragupta and Hurst, Cameron (2022). Associations between COVID-19 lockdown and post-lockdown on the mental health of pregnant women, postpartum women and their partners from the Queensland family cohort prospective study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22 (1) 468, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12884-022-04795-9
2022
Journal Article
The effect of neighbourhood and spatial crime rates on mental wellbeing
Pak, Anton and Gannon, Brenda (2022). The effect of neighbourhood and spatial crime rates on mental wellbeing. Empirical Economics, 64 (1), 1-36. doi: 10.1007/s00181-022-02256-y
The effect of neighbourhood and spatial crime rates on mental wellbeing
2022
Journal Article
Investigating the association between inpatient stroke therapy and disability, destination on discharge, length of stay and mortality: a prospective cohort study using the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme
Gittins, Matthew, Lugo-Palacios, David Gibran, Vail, Andy, Bowen, Audrey, Paley, Lizz, Bray, Benjamin, Gannon, Brenda and Tyson, Sarah (2022). Investigating the association between inpatient stroke therapy and disability, destination on discharge, length of stay and mortality: a prospective cohort study using the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme. BMJ open, 12 (4) e059684, e059684. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059684
2021
Journal Article
Descriptive data analysis of inequality of economic opportunity using the Queensland family cohort pilot study
Gannon, Brenda, Jayawardana, Danusha and Clifton, Vicki (2021). Descriptive data analysis of inequality of economic opportunity using the Queensland family cohort pilot study. Australian Economic Review, 54 (3), 398-405. doi: 10.1111/1467-8462.12438
Funding
Current funding
- 2025 - 2029
Secondary prevention of dementia through lifestyle risk reduction in cognitively at-risk older adults (MRFF grant administered by the University of New South Wales)
University of New South Wales
Open grant - 2024 - 2026
A state-based Perinatal Family Mental Health Registry
Queensland Mental Health Commission
Open grant - 2024 - 2028
Chronic disease risk reduction in older adults with high dementia risk: CogCoach trial (an MRFF MHHL Stream 3 grant led by University of New South Wales)
University of New South Wales
Open grant - 2023 - 2026
Home hearing and vision care to improve quality of life for people with dementia and carers
NHMRC MRFF Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission
Past funding
- 2023
Economic Analysis - Netball Queensland State Age Competitions
Netball Queensland Limited
Open grant - 2023
Health Economics impact data analysis for Delayed or absent early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities. (HEDIC_DD)
CRC for Living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism CRC Limited)
Open grant - 2021 - 2025
Rotary International District Human Brain Global Grant PhD Scholarship
Rotary International District 9640 Ltd
Open grant - 2019 - 2025
Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Disease (CRE WaND): Prevention and Detection
NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence
Open grant - 2019 - 2021
Early Resuscitation in Paediatric Sepsis Using Inotropes and Metabolic Support: A randomised controlled 2x2 pilot study
Emergency Medicine Foundation Ltd
Open grant - 2019 - 2024
Unlocking Benefits from Digital Investments through Meaningful Use
ARC Linkage Projects
Open grant - 2019 - 2024
Nasal High Flow Apnoeic Oxygenation during Pediatric Emergency Intubation: A Randomised Controlled Trial
NHMRC Project Grant
Open grant - 2018 - 2023
Nasal High Flow Apnoeic Oxygenation during Paediatric Emergency Intubation: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Thrasher Research Fund
Open grant - 2018 - 2024
Implementing the Tailored Activity Program for people with dementia and their family living at home: i-TAP (Australia)
NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Grants
Open grant - 2018 - 2022
Nasal Highflow for Paediatric Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure
NHMRC Project Grant
Open grant - 2017 - 2019
Irish Medical Career Tracking Study - The MedTrack Study (MEDTRACK)
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, The
Open grant - 2016 - 2020
Oral flucloxacillin alone versus flucloxacillin and phenoxymethylpenicillin for the emergency outpatient treatment of cellulitis... (PEDOCELL) (an HRB grant administered by the RCSI)
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, The
Open grant - 2014 - 2017
Threshold models in micro-econometrics with applications to empirical models of health (ARC Discovery Project administered by Curtin University of Technology)
Curtin University of Technology
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Supervision
Availability
Professor Brenda Gannon is: : Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Current supervision
- Doctor Philosophy
##### Essays on the Impact of Aged Care Policy Reforms on the Health of Older Australians and the Welfare of Carers
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Christiern Rose, Dr Yaying Zhou - Doctor Philosophy
##### Health Care Costs Associated with Avoidable Hospitalisations
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Isuru Ranasinghe
Completed supervision
- 2025
Doctor Philosophy
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Luke Connelly, Professor Gita Mishra - 2023
Doctor Philosophy
##### Economics of Ageing, Health Outcomes and Workforce Planning
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Christiern Rose - 2021
Doctor Philosophy
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Christiern Rose - 2020
Doctor Philosophy
##### Essays on Applied Microeconometrics in Health Economics
Principal Advisor - 2025
Doctor Philosophy
##### Health Benefits and Economic Consequences of Deep Brain Stimulation on Parkinson's Disease Patients
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Pankaj Sah
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