Deputy Director, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre Professor of Health Economics - Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Professor Rachael Morton (PhD, MSc(Clin Epi)(Hons)) is a senior health economist and CKD researcher. She is Deputy Director of the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre and Professor of Health Economics in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney where she leads a specialised team of economists and economic modellers. Prof Morton is the Principal Investigator of the Symptom monitoring WIth Feedback Trial (SWIFT), a large national ANZDATA patient reported outcome measures trial. Prof Morton is a past recipient of NHMRC Emerging Leadership and TRIP Fellowships and NHMRC Sidney Sax Fellowship to Oxford University where she undertook one of the first equity-focused systematic reviews. She specialises in within-trial and modelled economic evaluation, to inform policy on the basis of cost-effectiveness and health equity. In 2018 she was awarded a prestigious Robinson Fellowship from the University of Sydney, and elected President of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ).