Adjunct Associate Professor
Rosana Pacella

Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Rosana has extensive high-level experience in quantitative analysis and is skilled at managing a diverse portfolio of research and engaging with multiple stakeholders. She will be joining the University of Greenwich as Director of the Institute for Lifecourse Development in October 2019. She is currently Head of Research at the University of Chichester where she leads in developing and implementing the University’s Research policy, and manages preparations for the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission, aiming to maximize research impact and raise the quality and visibility of the University’s research. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and still holds an adjunct appointment there. While at QUT, she established and led a health services research team conducting economic evaluations of evidence-based wound management innovations. She was awarded the QUT Vice-Chancellor's Performance Individual Award for the impact of this research on policy and practice. Methodological interests include burden of disease analysis and comparative risk assessment, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, economic modelling and cost-effectiveness analysis and how decision makers value health care costs and weight economic evidence. She is an internationally recognized expert in assessing national and global burden of disease, with an emphasis on mental health disorders and interpersonal violence related risk factors including child maltreatment, bullying and intimate partner violence. Recent work has contributed to international knowledge by conducting the first study to quantify the burden attributable to multiple forms of child maltreatment in Australia. She is an expert advisor on the Global Burden of Disease Collaboration, and the Australian and South African national burden of disease studies. She is an ongoing member of the QUT Childhood Adversity Research Program conducting research on the prevalence, consequences and disease and economic burden of child maltreatment and bullying. She was the lead investigator on the $2.3 million NHMRC project to conduct the first national study of child maltreatment in Australia, 2019-23, before moving to the UK and remains an investigator on this study. She has played an important role internationally, in building capacity in burden of disease assessments among researchers who are employed or contracted by governments. More recently she has expanded her interests to training clinicians and researchers in cost-effectiveness methods. She has published in high-profile journals including the Lancet, PLOS Med, and Child Abuse & Neglect. She has been awarded £2.1 (AUD 3.8) million in research funding since 2014 from nationally competitive schemes. She obtained her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1993 and is currently supervising 4 PhD students.
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Health Economics, Cost-effectiveness analysis, Burden of Disease, Economic Evaluation, Public Health, Epidemiology
Discipline
Applied Economics, Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
- Bachelor of Science with Honours (University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Selected publications
- Pacella R, Tulleners R, McCosker L, Cheng Q, Harding K, Edwards H, Yelland S, Dyer A, McGuiness B, Graves N, (2019) Reimbursement for the cost of compression therapy for the management of venous leg ulcers in Australia, International Wound Journal, 16 (4), pp. 1069-1072.
- Brain D, Tulleners R, Lee X, Cheng Q, Graves N, Pacella R, (2019) Cost-effectiveness analysis of an innovative model of care for chronic wounds patients, PLoS One, 14 (3), pp. 1-13.
- McCosker L, Tulleners R, Cheng Q, Rohmer S, Pacella T, Graves N, Pacella R, (2019) Chronic wounds in Australia: A systematic review of key epidemiological and clinical parameters, International Wound Journal, 16 (1), pp. 84-95.
- Tulleners R, Brain D, Lee X, Cheng Q, Graves N, Pacella R, (2019) Health benefits of an innovative model of care for chronic wounds patients in Queensland, International Wound Journal, 16 (2), pp. 334-342.
- Pacella R, Barnsbee L, Cheng Q, Tulleners R, Lee X, Brain D, (2019) Measuring costs and quality of life for venous leg ulcers, International Wound Journal, 16 (1), pp. 112-121.
- Jadambaa A, Thomas H, Scott J, Graves N, Brain D, Pacella R, (2019) Prevalence of traditional bullying and cyberbullying among children and adolescents in Australia: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53 (9), pp. 878-888.
- Wozniak T, Barnsbee L, Lee X, Pacella R, (2019) Using the best available data to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance: a systematic review, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 8 (1), pp. 1-12.
- Kim Y, Pacella R, Harden F, White N, Toms L, (2019) A systematic review: Impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals exposure on fecundity as measured by time to pregnancy, Environmental Research, 171, pp. 119-133.
- Cheng Q, Gibb M, Graves N, Finlayson K, Pacella R, (2018) Cost-effectiveness analysis of guideline-based optimal care for venous leg ulcers in Australia, BMC Health Services Research, 18, pp. 1-13.
- Lazzarini P, Pacella R, Armstrong D, Van Netten J, (2018) Diabetes-related lower-extremity complications are a leading cause of the global burden of disability, Diabetic Medicine, 35 (9), pp. 1297-1299.
QUT ePrints
To find publications by Rosana, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- QUT Vice-Chancellors Performance Individual Award 2017 for Impact on Policy or Practice
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Keynote Speaker at the Diabetic Foot Australia 2017 Conference
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Keynote address: Health economics: the case for wound funding in Australia at Wounds Australia Conference Melbourne, November 2016
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Teaching Excellence Award
Research projects
- Title
- The First National Study of Child Maltreatment in Australia: Prevalence, Health Outcomes, and Burden of Disease
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1158750
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- Child Maltreatment; Mental Health; Prevalence; Public Health Policy; Public Health
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The Burden of Diabetes-Related Foot Disease: Estimating the Existing Burden and the Impact of Implementing Guideline-Based Care on the Future Burden
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Associate Professor Hansen Sun, Dr Kate Balcon, Associate Professor Peter Lazzarini