Associate Professor
Sanjeewa Kularatna
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Associate Professor Sanjeewa Kularatna is a health economist and a health service researcher at the School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, QUT. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) and Centre for Healthcare Transformation (CHT).Additionally, Dr Kularatna is the Academic Lead Post Graduate Research for School of Public Health and Social Work.
Dr Kularatna has a clinical and public health backgrounds before completing his PhD in health economics. His main interests are in heart disease related patient reported outcomes including utility values and quality adjusted life years. His other research includes, Economic evaluations, Decision making in health care, Markov modelling, discrete event simulation modelling and predictive modelling using in health services data. He is experienced in developing preference-based instruments, health state valuations, time trade off and, discrete choice experiments. He has worked in research projects improving health care for Indigenous and Torres Islander communities.
To date, Dr Kularatna has successfully procured over 15 million dollars in competitive research funding, and has over 60 academic research publications.
His current research agenda centres on designing predictive models in heart disease, patient preference using discrete choice experiments and discrete event simulation modelling.
Personal details
Positions
- Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Keywords
Health economics, Heart disease related economic evaluations and health service research, Predictive models including cost predictive models, Patient preference using Discrete Choice Experiments, Discrete event simulations, Markov models, Developing preference based instruments, QALYs and disease specific utility values, EQ-5D and patient reported outcome measures, Healthcare decision making
Discipline
Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University)
Professional memberships and associations
Experience
As a quantitative analyst focusing on consumer choice and demand,Dr Kularatna has expertise in a range of econometric and statistical techniques that include predictive analytics (i.e. multivariate analysis and probabilistic models), survey design and regression. Dr Kularatna also brings together a mix of public sector experience with high level micro-econometric skills including economic evaluations.
Awards
Journal Reviewer
Dr Kularatna is a reviewer for several prestigious journals including:
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Awards
- RBWH Research award; Second place in Health Service Research Category 2018
- Griffith University Vice Chancellors Award for best research group 2011 and 2016
- President's Award for scientific Publication January 2014. Colombo. Sri Lanka
Journal Reviewer
Dr Kularatna is a reviewer for several prestigious journals including:
- Value in Health
- Medical decision making
- Plos One
- BMC health services research
- Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Quality of Life Research
Publications
- Kularatna S, Senanayake S, Chen G, Parsonage W, (2020) Mapping the Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire (MLHFQ) to EQ-5D-5L in patients with heart failure, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18 () p
- Brain D, O'Beirne J, Hickman I, Powell E, Valery P, Kularatna S, Tulleners R, Farrington A, Horsfall L, Barnett A, (2020) Protocol for a randomised trial testing a community fibrosis assessment service for patients with suspected non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: LOCal assessment and triage evaluation of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (LOCATE-NAFLD), BMC Health Services Research, 20 (1) p
- Kularatna S, Byrnes J, Chan Y, Carrington M, Stewart S, Scuffham P, (2017) Comparison of contemporaneous responses for EQ-5D-3L and Minnesota living with heart failure: A case for disease specific multiattribute utility instrument in cardiovascular conditions, International Journal of Cardiology, 227 () p172
- Kularatna S, Chen G, Byrnes J, Scuffham P, (2017) Mapping Sri Lankan EQ-5D-3L to EQ-5D-5L value sets, Value in Health Regional Issues, 12 () p20
- Kularatna S, Whitty J, Johnson N, Jayasinghe R, Scuffham P, (2016) A comparison of health state utility values associated with oral potentially malignant disorders and oral cancer in Sri Lanka assessed using the EQ-5D-3 L and the EORTC-8D, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 14 (101) p101
- Koh R, Pukallus M, Kularatna S, Gordon L, Barnett A, Walsh L, Seow W, (2015) Relative cost-effectiveness of home visits and telephone contacts in preventing early childhood caries, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 43 (6) p560
- Kularatna S, Whitty J, Johnson N, Jayasinghe R, Scuffham P, (2015) Valuing EQ-5D health states for Sri Lanka, Quality of Life Research, 24 (7) p1785
- Kularatna S, Whitty J, Johnson N, Jayasinghe R, Scuffham P, (2014) EQ-5D-3L derived population norms for health related quality of life in Sri Lanka, PLoS ONE, 9 (11) p1
- Kularatna S, Whitty J, Johnson N, Scuffham P, (2013) Study protocol for valuing EQ-5D-3L and EORTC-8D health states in a representative population sample in Sri Lanka, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 11 () p1
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sanjeewa, explore their research on ePrints (our digital repository).
Research projects
- Title
- CHD LIFE+ Family-Centred Care Models Supporting Long-Term Neurodevelopment
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- ARGCHDG000035
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- A Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Social and Emotional Well-Being Among Aboriginal Children
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- APP1153662
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- Aboriginal child; Aboriginal mental health; Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT); Psychosocial factors; Health economics
- Title
- LOCal Assessment and Triage Evaluation of NAFLD (LOCATE-NAFLD)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1175567
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- liver disease; fatty liver disease; implementation; economic evaluation; health economics
- Title
- Translating Evidence-Based Interventions into Population-Level Digital Models of Care for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- APP1179490
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- child; adolescent; mental health; internet service delivery; translational research
- Title
- Validation and Valuation of New Cardiovascular Specific Multi Attribute Utility Instrument; Assisting Resource Allocation Decisions in Heart Disease
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 101949
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
- Title
- Developing a New Cardiovascular Specific Instrument to Measure and Value Health
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 101407
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- Minimally invasive approach to manage early childhood caries in Aboriginal preschoolers
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1121982
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Dentistry; Preventive Dentistry; Dental Caries; Dental Treatments; Dental Public Health
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The utilisation and economic viability of virtual care in health care services.
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Amina Tariq, Professor Steven McPhail - Liveability disparities and the socioeconomic exclusion of people with disabilities in regional areas of Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Lisa Stafford, Professor Steven McPhail - Models of care for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: cost-effectiveness and patient preference
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven McPhail, Professor Ray Chan, Dr David Brain - Digital health solutions for improving ambulatory care utilisation
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven McPhail, Dr Hannah Carter - Measuring the cost and burden of Bronchiectasis in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven McPhail, Professor Anne Chang, Associate Professor Julie Marchant - Oncology ambulatory service utilisation and costs
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Ray Chan, Dr Elise Button