Dr Natasha Hall awarded the 2025 Frank Murphy Travelling Scholarship
Dr Hall received the award from Turning Point’s Executive Clinical Director Professor Dan Lubman and Program Director, Statewide Services, Denis Hovic this week.
Congratulations to Dr Natasha Hall, Turning Point’s 2025 Frank Murphy Travelling Scholarship recipient!
“I'm very excited about the scholarship,” Dr Hall said. “It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase work that the National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit (NAMHSU) research team and the Monash Health Economics Group have been working on in 2024, which we will expand on in 2025.”
Dr Hall has been at Turning Point since 2023, working in data analysis using health economics, costing methods and data linkage.
Her work has been instrumental in Turning Point’s development of novel health economic projects, and she is currently researching the societal costs associated with mental health ambulance callouts in Australia.
Dr Hall plans to use the scholarship to present a paper titled ‘Comparison and policy implications of ambulance duration and associated costs for suicidal presentations versus general presentations in Australia’ at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Real-World Evidence Summit.
One of the biggest international conferences in health economics, the ISPOR conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan at the end of September.
It brings together experts, decision-makers and industry leaders to share research and discuss solutions to the region’s most pressing healthcare challenges.
“Attendance at the conference and pre-workshop events will facilitate a deeper understanding of novel health economics techniques and methodologies being used on a global scale,” Dr Hall said.
While in Japan, she will also visit the Institute for Health Economics and Policy in Tokyo, with the goal of presenting her research there.
“Thank you to all who have supported me at Turning Point, as well as the family of Frank Murphy for this opportunity,” Dr Hall said.
The family of Frank Murphy donated a bequest to Turning Point following his death. Their generous contribution means that Turning Point’s Travelling Scholarships can continue to support the development of the next generation of alcohol and drug workers each year.
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