D’ARCY HOLMAN
MBBS(UWA), MPH(Harvard), PhD(UWA), FACE, FAFPHM, FAIM
Professor, School of Population Health, UWA, and Adjunct Professor, ACERH (UWA)
T: +61 8 6488 1251
E: darcy@dph.uwa.edu.au

Professor D’Arcy Holman is foundation Director of the UWA node of ACERH. He was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Health Services Research at the University from 1996 to June 2002. Professor Holman holds the Foundation Chair in Public Health at UWA and was Head of School during 1996-98 and from July 2002 to June 2005.

He is known across Australia for his contributions to health services research, advice to governments, community organisations and the health professions, and his passionate teaching of public health methods. His diverse backgrounds in academia and public administration include Director of the Health Promotion Development and Evaluation Program, which evaluated the WA Health Promotion Foundation, and Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Director of Epidemiology in the Health Department of WA. Professor Holman conducts high level reviews of health services for leading international, national and state-based health agencies, and publishes extensively in health services research, policy commentary, health promotion program evaluation, and the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of chronic and communicable diseases.

His present interests focus on innovative and robust methods for the study of utilisation and outcomes of health care, particularly applications of data linkage and spatial analysis and the evaluation of hospital and community-based health interventions.

Selected Publications

Holman CDJ, Preen DB, Baynham NJ, Finn JC and Semmens JB, "A multipurpose Australian comorbidity scoring system performed better than the Charlson index", Journal of Clinical Epidemiology , Vol.58 No.10, October 2005, pp.1006-14.

Holman CDJ, Wisniewski ZS, Semmens JB and Bass AJ, "Changing treatments for primary urolithiasis: impact on services and renal preservation in 16 679 patients in Western Australia ", BJU International , Vol.90 No.1, July 2002, pp.7-15.

Holman CDJ, Arnold-Reed DE, de Klerk N, McComb C and English DR, "A psychometric experiment in causal inference to estimate evidential weights used by epidemiologists", Epidemiology, Vol.12 No.2, March 2001, pp.246-55.

Holman CDJ, Bass AJ, Rouse IR and Hobbs MST, "Population-based linkage of health records in Western Australia : development of a health services research linked database", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health , Vol.23 No.5, October 1999, pp.453-9.

Holman CDJ and English, DR, "Ought low alcohol intake to be promoted for health reasons?", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol.89 No.3, March 1996, pp.123-9.

Holman CDJ, English DR, Milne E and Winter MG, "Meta-analysis of alcohol and all-cause mortality: a validation of NHMRC recommendations", Medical Journal of Australia , Vol.164 No.3, February 1996, pp.141-5.

Holman CDJ and English DR, "An improved aetiologic fraction of alcohol-caused mortality", Australian Journal of Public Health, Vol.19 No.2, April 1995, pp.138-41.

Holman CDJ, Corti B, Donovan RJ and Dawes VP, "Tobacco control and health expectancy in Australia ", Tobacco Control , Vol.2 No.3, September 1993, pp.195-200.

Holman CDJ, Donovan RJ and Corti B, "Evaluating projects funded by the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation: a systematic approach", Health Promotion International , Vol.8 No.3, January 1993, pp.199-208.

Holman CDJ, Cameron PV, Bucens MR, Kellar AJ, Machin J, McNulty JC and Members of the Western Australian AIDS Advisory Committee, "Population-based epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus infection in Western Australia", Medical Journal of Australia, Vol.150 No.7, April 1989, pp.362-70.

Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK, Arias LN, Martin CA, Hatton WM, Hayward LD, Salmon MA, Shean RE and Waddell VP, "The Quantification of Drug Caused Morbidity and Mortality in Australia", Parts 1 and 2, Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health , Canberra, 1988 (republished in 1990).

Holman CDJ, Bucens MR, Quadros CF and Reid MR, "Occurrence and distribution of hepatitis B infection in the Aboriginal population of Western Australia", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, Vol.17 No.5, October 1987, pp.518-25.

Holman CDJ, Shean RE, "Premature adult mortality and short-stay hospitalisation in Western Australia attributable to the smoking of tobacco, 1979-83", Medical Journal of Australia , Vol. 145 No.1, July 1986, pp.7-11.

Holman CDJ, Armstrong BK and Heenan PJ, "A theory of the etiology and pathogenesis of human cutaneous malignant melanoma", Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol.71 No.4, October 1983, pp.651-6.

Holman CDJ, Mulroney CD and Armstrong BK, " Epidemiology of pre-invasive and invasive malignant melanoma in Western Australia ", International Journal of Cancer , Vol.25 No.3, March 1980, pp. 317-23.