Doctor Federico Girosi
RESEARCH ACADEMIC,
Centre for Health Research
Personal
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Centre for Health Research
Contact
| Email: | F.Girosi@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 3605 |
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| Location: | 30.3.36 Campbelltown |
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Biography
Federico Girosi has been an Associate Professor in Population Health at the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, since late 2011. He is currently an investigator in the Geographic and Resource Analysis in Primary Health Care Centre (GRAPHC), a project that applies a geographic approach to Australian primary care research in order to improve resource allocation.
Dr. Girosi earned a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in June 2003, and worked at the RAND Corporation between 2003 and 2011 as a health economist and modeler. At RAND he was the leader of the modeling team for RAND’s Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts initiative (COMPARE). As part of this project he developed a microsimulation model for the analysis of the effects of health insurance reform. The simulation uses utility maximization principles to model the choices made by both families and employers when faced with new insurance choices and financial incentives such as subsidies and penalties.
Dr. Girosi has also collaborated with D. Goldman and contributed to the development of the Future of the Elderly Model (FEM). The FEM is a reduced-form Markovian microsimulation model that can be used to estimate the cost-effectiveness of preventive intervention and predict the health status and the medical expenditures of the U.S. population age 51 and older.
In 2006 Dr. Girosi led the modeling effort for a Gates Foundation project aiming to evaluate the benefits of introducing new diagnostic tools in the developing world. In addition, he was part of a RAND team that quantified the cost and benefits of widespread adoption of electronic medical records systems in health care.
He also holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Genoa, Italy, and conducted research for 10 years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Girosi has published in a number of peer-reviewed international journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also the author of a book, published by Princeton University Press in 2008 and co-authored by Gary King, entitled “Demographic Forecasting”.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Girosi.
Publications
Books
- Girosi, F. and King, G. (2008), 'Demographic Forecasting', : Princeton University Press 9780691130958.
Journal Articles
- Eibner, C., Price, C., Vardavas, R., Cordova, A. and Girosi, F. (2012), 'Small firms' actions in two areas, and exchange premium and enrollment impact', Health Affairs, 8.
- Eibner, C., Hussey, P. and Girosi, F. (2010), 'The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workers' Health Insurance Coverage', New England Journal of Medicine, 3.
- Mcglynn, E., Cordova, A., Wasserman, J. and Girosi, F. (2010), 'Could We Have Covered More People At Less Cost? Technically, Yes; Politically, Probably Not', Health Affairs, 5.
- Ringel, J., Eibner, C., Girosi, F., Cordova, A. and Mcglynn, W. (2010), 'Modeling health care policy alternatives', Health Services Research, 18.
- Goldman, D., Zheng, Y., Girosi, F., Michaud, P., Olshansky, S., Cutler, D. and Rowe, J. (2009), 'The benefits of risk factor prevention in Americans aged 51 years and older', American Journal of Public Health, 6.
- Girosi, F., Hilborne, L., Pitkin Derose, K., Shea, M., Beighley, C., Dahl, C., Wasserman, J., Olmsted, S., Keeler, E., Hay Burgess, D., Lim, Y., Aledort, J., Rafael, M., Ricci, K. and Boer, R. (2006), 'Developing and interpreting models to improve diagnostics in developing countries', Nature, 6.
- Lim, Y., Steinhoff, M., Girosi, F., Holtzman, D., Campbell, H., Boer, R., Black, R. and Mulholland, K. (2006), 'Reducing the global burden of acute lower respiratory infections in children: the contribution of new diagnostics', Nature, 10.
- Ricci, K., Guerrant, R., Girosi, F., Tarr, P., Lim, Y., Mason, C., Miller, M., Hughes, J., von Seidlein, L. and Agosti, J. (2006), 'Reducing stunting among children: the potential contribution of diagnostics', Nature, 10.
- Aledort, J., Hellmann, N., Shea, M., Peeling, R., Ronald, A., Rafael, M., Girosi, F., Vickerman, P., Le Blancq, S., Landay, A., Holmes, K. and Ridzon, R. (2006), 'Reducing the burden of sexually transmitted infections in resource-limited settings: the role of improved diagnostics', Nature, 14.
- Keeler, E., Girosi, F., Dye, C., Perkins, M., Small, P., Hanson, C., Reed, S., Cunningham, J., Aledort, J., Hillborne, L. and Rafael, M. (2006), 'Reducing the global burden of tuberculosis: the contribution of improved diagnostics', Nature, 9.
- Rafael, M., Taylor, T., Magill, A., Lim, Y., Girosi, F. and Allan, R. (2006), 'Reducing the burden of childhood malaria in Africa: the role of improved', Nature, 10.
- Hillestad, R., Bigelow, J., Bower, A., Girosi, F., Meili, R., Scoville, R. and Taylor, R. (2005), 'Can electronic medical record systems transform health care? Potential health benefits, savings, and costs', Health Affairs, 15.
- Taylor, R., Bower, A., Girosi, F., Bigelow, J., Fonkych, K. and Hillestad, R. (2005), 'Promoting Health Information Technology: Is There A Case For More-Aggressive Government Action?', Health Affairs, 12.
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | Randomised controlled trial of antimicrobial treatment versus watchful waiting for acute otitis media without perforation in low risk Aboriginal children |
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| Years: | 2013-01-01 - 2016-12-31 |
| ID: | P00020890 |
| UWS Researchers: | Jennifer Reath, Penny Abbott, Federico Girosi and Wendy Hu |
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| Title: | National Centre for Geographic and Resource Analysis in Primary Health Care (GRAPHC) |
| Years: | 2012-07-01 - 2015-06-30 |
| ID: | P00021008 |
| UWS Researchers: | Louisa Jorm and Federico Girosi |
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| Title: | Risk Assessment and Delivery of a Low Intensity Intervention for Pain and Anxiety Following Motor Vehicle Accidents |
| Years: | 2012-10-01 - 2014-10-31 |
| ID: | P00020703 |
| UWS Researchers: | Kathryn Nicholson Perry and Federico Girosi |
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Supervision
Current Supervision
| Title: | Adaptive Data Mining Approach for Anomalous Records in Admission Data |
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