RACHAEL MOORIN
DCR, DRI, PGradDip(NM), MSc(Newcastle), PhD(UWA)
Director, ACERH (UWA)
T: +61 8 6488 1416
E: rachmoor@sph.uwa.edu.au

Dr Moorin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at ACERH (UWA) having previously been a member of Professor D’Arcy Holman’s research team at the Centre for Health Services Research, UWA. She has strong technical and computing credentials and is experienced with manipulation and analysis of linked administrative data. She also has significant expertise and experience in probabilistic modelling and quantitative data analysis stemming from her background in medical radiation science. Dr Moorin is the convener of the Defeating Social Inequalities Strategic Initiative Group in the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia. She also teaches at undergraduate level in epidemiology and public health and is a coordinator of the Health Science Honours program within the School.

Dr Moorin’s research interests include:

• The health effects of social inequality
• Provision of health services
• Health care financing
• The impact of health care policies on utilisation and outcomes.

She is currently undertaking research within ACERH that is an extension of work performed as part of her PhD. This involves a collaborative project between the private sector health insurance industry, public sector health administration and academics in health service.

Selected Publications

Moorin RE, Meyrick DP and Rose A, "Pre Clinical Evaluation of 2,3 Dimercaptosuccinic Acid (DMSA) as a Radiation Nephrotoxicity Protective Agent during Radio-Peptide Therapy of Neuroendocrine Malignancy", Nuclear Medicine Communications (in press).

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "Modelling Changes in the Determinants of PHI Utilisation in Western Australia across Five Health Care Policy Eras between 1981 and 2001", Health Policy (in press).

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "Does Federal Health Care Policy Influence Switching between the Public and Private Sectors in Individuals?", Health Policy (in press).

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "The effects of socioeconomic status, accessibility to services and patient type on hospital use in Western Australia : A retrospective cohort study of patients with homogenous health status", BMC Health Services Research, Vol.6 Article 74, June 2006, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/6/74 .

Moorin RE, Holman CDJ, Garfield C and Brameld KJ, "Health Related Migration: Evidence of Reduced 'Urban-Drift'", Health and Place Vol.12 No.2, June 2006, pp.131-40.

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "Do Marginal Changes in PHI Membership Accurately Predict Marginal Changes in PHI Use in Western Australia?", Health Policy , Vol.76 No.3, May 2006, pp.288-98.

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "The Influence of Federal Health Care Policy Reforms on the use of Private Health Insurance in Disadvantaged Groups", Australian Health Review, Vol.30 No.2, May 2006, pp.241-51.

Brameld KJ, Holman CDJ and Moorin RE, "Possession of Health Ins24 September, 2007 Outcomes?", Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, Vol.11 No.2, April 2006, pp.94-100.

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "Health Care Financing and Public Responses: Use of Private Insurance in Western Australia during 1980-2001", Australian Health Review , Vol.30 No.1, February 2006, pp.73-82.

Moorin RE and Hendrie D, The Cost of Intentional Injury in Western Australia during 2002 , Western Australia : Injury Research Centre, The University of Western Australia , Perth , Jan 2006.

Moorin RE and Hendrie D, The Cost of Children's Falls in Western Australia during 2003 , Western Australia : Injury Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth , November 2005.

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, "Development of a Health Care Policy Characterisation Model based on use of Private Health Insurance", Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, Vol.2 Article 27, November 2005, http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/2/1/26 .

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ "Patient-Initiated Switching between Private and Public Inpatient Hospitalisation In Western Australia 1980-2001: An Analysis using Linked Data", Australia and New Zealand Health Policy , Vol.2 Article 12, June 2005, http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/2/1/12 .

Moorin RE and Holman CDJ, A Longitudinal Study of In-Patient Insurance Classification in Western Australia using Linked Hospital Morbidity Data, University of Western Australia, Perth, September 2004.

Moorin RE, Davison A and Turner JH, "Optimisation of Technetium -99m Sestamibi SPET to Define Multi Drug Resistance with Confidence", Nuclear Medicine Communications , Vol.25 No.10, October 2004, pp.1039-48.