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Two recent INSPIRE seminars hosted by ACT Health Directorate have addressed related issues of how to induce better learning health care systems and seeking out care that provides little or no benefit relative to risk. Ultimately, each of these is about trying to optimise resource use for better patient and population health.

Given limited resources, this is also an economic question. In this seminar, Cam Donaldson will seek to convince you of the case for using economics to ‘manage’ such scarcity.

Speaker Biography

Cam Donaldson PhD, FRSE is Yunus Chair & Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). He was Pro Vice Chancellor Research (2016-21) when GCU became the first university to base its research strategy on the Sustainable Development Goals.

After an early-career stint as a lecturer at the University of Sydney, Cam went on to a professorship at the University of Aberdeen before taking up the Svare Chair in Health Economics at the University of Calgary and the Health Foundation Chair at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Renowned for developing and applying methods for economic appraisal of health interventions and founding GCU’s Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health, Cam has published around 300 refereed journal articles and authored/ edited 8 books, his research having attracted over £30m in competitive funding (£11m as a principal investigator). In 2023, he also took up a part-time professorship in health economics at Australian National University.