HOPE
Cross-Disciplinary Group for Quantifying the Role of Incarceration in National Public Health and Safety
Health Outcome and Post-incarceration Evaluation (HOPE) project aims to establish the most extensive Australian data linkage initiative in the criminal justice domain. This ambitious endeavor seeks to provide robust empirical evidence to guide the Australian Government in reducing imprisonment rates by leveraging joint perspectives from econometricians, criminologists, and public health specialists.
HOPE is actively seeking partners and collaborators for consultation in the establishment of a joint steering committee. Our primary goal at this stage is to develop a comprehensive research proposal that will attract joint funding opportunities. We are looking to bring together diverse expertise and resources to create a robust, interdisciplinary approach to our project. This collaborative effort will not only strengthen our research design but also enhance our potential for securing substantial funding from various sources. We invite interested parties to join us in shaping this important initiative, contributing their unique perspectives and capabilities to our shared objective of understanding and addressing the health consequences of incarceration in Australia.
Our mission is to ensure that quantitative rigor is both informed by expert subject matter knowledge and targeted by it. We strive to integrate advanced statistical methods with deep domain expertise, allowing us to produce analyses that are not only mathematically sound but also contextually relevant and practically applicable.
Our Team
We are Australian leaders in criminology, health, and econometrics.
Stuart Kinner
Stuart is Professor of Health Equity at Curtin University, an Honorary Professor at The University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Criminology Institute. Stuart’s focusses on health services and health outcomes for people who come into contact with the criminal justice system.
Rachael Morton
Rachael is Professor and Director of health economics and health technology assessment at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She specialises in trial-based and modelled economic evaluation and her work led to multiple changes in public health practices.
Don Weatherburn
Don is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and was formerly Executive Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Prior to that appointment, Professor Weatherburn was foundation Research Director at the Judicial Commission of New South Wales.
Sergey Alexeev
Sergey is a Senior Health Economist at the University of Sydney, specializing in experimental and quasi-experimental methods. With expertise in addiction, economics, and public health, he leads impactful policy work, which includes research on alcohol taxation and supervised injection facilities. His work is published in top journals in economics, addiction, and clinical trials.
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