Media Highlights – July 2024

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Media Highlights – July 2024

From driving down power bills this winter to a mental healthcare report, see where Macquarie Business School has been making headlines.

Professor Henry Cutler and Associate Professor Jonas Fooken, both from the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE), contributed an article to The Conversation about how to incentivise health care providers to improve the mental health care system.

Professor Eric Knight, Executive Dean of the Macquarie Business School, was named on News.com.au as a member of the judging panel for the Sydney Awards.

Dr Jan Zwar, Macquarie Business School’s Research Office, provided comment to ABC News on the collapse of Booktopia. Jan’s commentary also appeared on Proactive Investors.

Artists as Workers, co-authored by Distinguished Professor David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya, both from the Department of Economics, was mentioned in The Illawarra Mercury (print version) to illustrate the wider context of Wollongong’s struggling artists.

Dr Evelyn Lee, Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine (GenIMPACT), was interviewed on 2SER FM about new research into the long-term healthcare costs for children exposed to substance use in utero.

Dr Colin Zhang, Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, provided comment to Healthcare Channel on the need to improve funding to support the growing number of single women in aged care. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.

Professor Eric Knight, Executive Dean of the Macquarie Business School, was named in Small Business Connections as a judge of the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards.

Professor Scott Koslow, Department of Marketing, provided comment to the New York Post, Stuff NZ and The Sydney Morning Herald about the effectiveness of cinematic airline safety briefings.

Dr Rohan Best, Department of Economics, co-authored an article in 360info outlining some practical ways to drive down power bills this winter.

Dr Lurion De Mello, Department of Applied Finance, was interviewed on 6PR 882 News Talk about petrol prices.

Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Nine News about the effect of supermarket temperatures on consumer behaviour.