LUKE CONNELLY
BA (Econ) MEconSt PhD (Qld)
Professor of Health Economics
Director, ACERH UQ
T: +61 7 3346 4838
E: l.connelly@uq.edu.au

Luke Connelly is Professor of Health Economics at The University of Queensland and holds appointments in the Faculty of Health Sciences (School of Medicine) and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (School of Economics).  He is the Director of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health at The University of Queensland and is an Associate Director of Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD).  His primary academic interests are in health care financing, health insurance, and the operation of health sector markets.  He is also interested in the economics of injury, especially with respect to injury and disability insurance and compensation (e.g., workers’ compensation and personal injury) schemes.

Selected Publications

Connelly LB, "The economic characteristics of registries and their policy implications", Journal of Trauma, Vol.66 No.2, February 2009, pp.531-35. (Abstract)

Rowell D and Connelly LB, "Personal assistance, income and employment: the spinal injuries survey instrument (SISI) and its application in a sample of people with quadriplegia", Spinal Cord, Vol.46 No.6, June 2008, pp.417-24. (download).

Kulasingham S, Connelly LB, Conway E, Hocking J, Meyers E, Regan D, Roder D, Ross J and Wain G, “A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Adding a Human Papillomavirus Vaccine to the Australian National Cervical Screening Program”, Sexual Health, Vol.4 No.3, September 2007, pp.165-75.

Connelly LB and Brown HS III, “Lifetime Subsidies in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets with Community Rating”, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice, Vol.31 No.4, October 2006, pp.705-19.

Connelly LB and Supangan R, “The Economic Costs of Road Trauma: Australia, States and Territories”, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.38 No.6, November 2006, pp.1087-93. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2006.04.015 )

Connelly LB, Woolf A and Brooks P, “Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Musculoskeletal Conditions”, in Dean T Jamison, Joel G Breman, Anthony R Measham, George Alleyne, Mariam Claeson, David B Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills and Philip Musgrove (eds) Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries , 2nd edn, Oxford University Press and World Bank, Washington DC, 2006, pp.963-80 (available here)

Connelly LB, “Teaching Health Economics”, Australasian Journal of Economics Education, Vol.2 Nos 1 and 2, 2005, pp. 104-21.

Connelly LB, “Student Characteristics and Academic Success: An Econometric Study of the Performance of 'Equity Groups'”, in RG Milter, VS Perotti and Mien SR Segers (eds) (2005) Educational Innovation in Economics and Business IX , Springer, Verlag, 2005, pp.317-40.

Brown HS III and Connelly LB, “Market Failure in Long-Term Private Health Insurance Markets:  A Proposed Solution”, Applied Economics Letters, Vol.12 No.5, April 2005, pp.281-84.

Brown HS III and Connelly LB “Lifetime Cover in Private Insurance Markets”, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Vol.5 No.1, January 2005, pp.75-88.

Connelly LB, "Economics and 'Health Promotion'", European Journal of Health Economics, Vol.5 No.3, October 2004, pp.236-42.

Connelly LB, "Assertion-Reason Assessment in Formative and Summative Tests: Results from Two Graduate Case Studies", in R Ottewill, L Borredon, L Falque B Macfarlane and A Wall (eds) Educational Innovation in Economics and Business VIII: Pedagogy, Technology and Innovation, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2004, pp.359-78.

Connelly LB, “The Paternity of the Price-Quality ‘Value Map’”, Applied Economics Letters, Vol.10 No.14, November 2003, pp.909-12.

Connelly LB, "Balancing the Number and Size of Sites: An Economic Approach to the Optimal Design of Cluster Samples”, Controlled Clinical Trials, Vol.24 No.5, October 2003, pp.554-59.

Clarke P, Gerdtham U and Connelly LB, “A Note on the Decomposition of the Health Concentration Index”, Health Economics, Vol.12 No.6, June 2003, pp.511-16.