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Position: Senior Research Fellow Qualifications: PhD (Melbourne University); BA (La Trobe Unversity); Dip Ed (Monash University) Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Profile: John McKie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics. He has a PhD in philosophy, with a long-standing interest in ethical issues in health economics. Before coming to the Centre, Dr McKie was a lecturer in bioethics in the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, and has tutored in philosophy at the University of Adelaide, the University of New England, and the University of Melbourne. His main research interests are in the measurement of social values, and equity issues in priority setting. Along with Jeff Richardson, the founding Director of the Centre for Health Economics, he is the author of the following book: John McKie, Jeff Richardson, Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse, The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998). Recent Journal Articles: • John McKie, Bradley Shrimpton, Jeff Richardson & Rosalind Hurworth, ‘Treatment Costs and Priority Setting in Health Care:A Qualitative Study,' Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, Vol. 6, No 11 (2009). • John McKie, Bradley Shrimpton, Rosalind Hurworth, Catherine Bell, & Jeff Richardson, ‘Who Should be Involved in Health Care Decision Making? A Qualitative Study,’ Health Care Analysis, Vol. 16, No 2 (2008), pp. 114-126. • Jeff Richardson & John McKie, ‘Economic Evaluation in The Context of a National Health Scheme: The Case for a Fairness-Based Framework’, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 26, No. 4 (2007), pp. 785-799. • Jeff Richardson & John McKie, ‘Economics, Political Philosophy and Ethics: The Role of Public Preferences in Health Care Decision-Making’, in Principles of Health Care Ethics, 2nd edition, (ed) R. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper and J. McMillan (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2006). • Jeff Richardson & John McKie, ‘Empiricism, Ethics and Orthodox Economic Theory: What is the Appropriate Basis for Decision-Making in the Health Sector?’ Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 60, No. 2 (2005), pp. 265-275.
Recent Research Papers: • Malcolm Anderson, Jeff Richardson, John McKie, Angelo Iezzi & Munir Khan, ‘The Relevance of Personal Characteristics in Health Care Rationing: What the Australian Public Thinks and Why,’ Research Paper 2009 (42), Centre for Health Economics (Monash University, Melbourne, 2009), ISBN 1 921187 41 7. (Click here to view )
• John McKie & Jeff Richardson, ‘Neglected Equity Issues in Cost Effectiveness Analysis – Part 1: Severity of Pre-Treatment Condition, Realisation of Potential for Health, Concentration and Dispersion of Health Benefits, and Age-Related Social Preferences,’ Research Paper 2005 (7), Centre for Health Economics (Monash University, Melbourne, 2005), ISBN 1 921187 06 9. (Click here to view ) • John McKie & Jeff Richardson, ‘Neglected Equity Issues in Cost Effectiveness Analysis – Part 2: Direct and Indirect Costs, The Preservation of Hope, The Rule of Rescue, Patient Adaptation, and the Ex Ante/Ex Post Distinction,’ Research Paper 2005 (8), Centre for Health Economics (Monash University, Melbourne, 2005), ISBN 1 921187 07 7. (Click here to view ) • Jeff Richardson, John McKie & Jan Abel Olsen, ‘Welfarism of Non-Welfarism? Public Preferences for Willingness to Pay Versus Health Maximisation,’ Research Paper 2005 (10), Centre for Health Economics (Monash University, Melbourne, 2005), ISBN 1 921187 09 3. (Click here to view ) • Jeff Richardson & John McKie, ‘Reassurance, Regret and Uncertainty: Testing Ex Ante Sources of (Dis)Utility and the Welfarist Account of Social Welfare,’ Working Paper 153, Centre for Health Economics (Monash University, Melbourne, 2005), ISBN 1 876662 74 3. (Click here to view )
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