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Dr. Anton Pak is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Queensland's Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH), with affiliations at both the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences. His work focuses on advancing digital health solutions and applying economic principles to improve healthcare decision-making and system efficiency through collaborations with hospitals, primary care facilities, and health consumer groups.
Dr. Pak holds a PhD in Economics from The University of Queensland. His educational background has equipped him with strong analytical skills in econometrics and data analysis, which he applies to complex healthcare problems.
Dr. Pak's research spans health economics, digital health interventions, and applied econometrics. He specializes in analyzing patient behavior, emergency department utilization, and waiting time modeling. His work combines health economics theory with advanced statistical methods to address real-world healthcare challenges. He has developed machine learning models that significantly improve emergency department waiting time predictions, outperforming traditional methods by over 40%. His research has informed national and international policy documents and he was an invited speaker at a WHO health economics modeling webinar for the Western Pacific region.
His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on health economics evaluation, digital health innovations, and large-scale epidemiological studies. Dr. Pak frequently collaborates on interdisciplinary research, contributing economic perspectives to public health challenges including infectious disease modeling, healthcare system efficiency, and digital health interventions. His work appears in high-impact journals including The Lancet Public Health, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and PharmacoEconomics.
Dr. Pak actively supervises graduate students and contributes to teaching in the Graduate Certificate in Digital Health and Clinical Informatics. His current funding includes the MRFF Innovative Trials grant for 'Transforming Paediatric Critical Care: Design and Development of the PLATINUM Trial' (2025-2026), and previous grants focused on digital health interventions and healthcare economics analysis. He has partnered with organizations including Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Emergency Medicine Foundation.
Dr. Pak works closely with the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health and the Queensland Digital Health Centre, collaborating with clinicians, statisticians, and public health experts to translate research into practical healthcare solutions that improve patient experience, health outcomes, and system efficiency.
