Professor Joshua Byrnes

Chief Investigator - The Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network (INTER-Net)

Professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, Director of the Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, Australia

Researcher biography

Professor Joshua Byrnes is the Director of the Centre for Applied Health Economics at Griffith University. He has expertise in economics, health economics and critical appraisal of economic evaluations. He is also highly experienced in trial design, health technology assessment, economic evaluation of healthcare programs including cost-effectiveness and cost-utility modelling, systematic reviews, project management and biostatistics. Professor Byrnes has significantly impacted and influenced policy, practice and funding decisions in the Australian health system. This has included leading the economic assessment of plain packaging tobacco legislation, pregnancy warning labels on alcohol, and opt-out arrangements for the MyHealth Record.

Institutional webpage: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/7224-joshua-byrnes