Core expertise

Public health and social policy

Biography

Alex is an applied public health and social policy researcher, with a specific focus on work disability benefit and compensation systems, and their impact on the work, social and health outcomes of injured and ill people.
He leads a program of research that seeks to describe health and work outcomes of people receiving support from Australia’s workers’ compensation, social security, life insurance and road traffic crash compensation systems; identify factors affecting the health and work function of people involved these systems; and modify those factors to improve outcomes for injured and ill people, and reduce the burden of work disability in the community.