ProfessorBarbara Mintzes
Professor in Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine and Health
- Professor in PharmacyFaculty of Medicine and Health
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: International comparative study on medicines safety regulation
Summary of opportunity:
To compare national safety warnings on medicines in Australia, Canada, the European Union and the United States over a 10-year period, from 2007-2016, with follow-up research updates.
Opportunity synopsis:
Medicines have a key role in improving health and easing symptoms, but can also cause serious harm, and many harmful effects only become known once a medicine is in wide use.
When new safety concerns arise, governments often differ in whether or how they warn clinicians and the public. This is the first international comparison of the effectiveness of different approaches. The aim is to improve safety oversight.
This mixed method study includes a policy analysis, advisory content analysis, key informant interviews, and population-based analyses of prescribing effects. Applicants may focus on either qualitative or quantitative components.
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAustralian cancer physicians and the pharmaceutical industry: understanding current interactions to guide future policy
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCommunicating post-market safety risks of medicines using regulatory safety advisories: An international comparison of policy and perceptions
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExpediting regulatory approval to speed access to medicines: A multisectoral policy analysis in Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFramework for measurement and monitoring of medicines use and health outcomes policy standards and future state
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONImproving rigour and transparency in problematic spinal cord stimulation research
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPost-market safety information and medicines risk communication: two contrasting clinical scenarios – asthma and cancer
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONReducing Bias in Public Health Guidelines
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONRegulatory safety advisories on medicines: an international comparison of content and delivery
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONVitamin D and Depression in Women of Reproductive Age: Exploring Women’s Use of Vitamin D and Vitamin Supplements