Rate My Professor Penny Reeves

Dr. Penny Reeves serves as Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is also Associate Director at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), where she oversees health research economics and impact assessment. Reeves holds a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Newcastle, based on her thesis titled 'Economic evaluation of the implementation of preventive health interventions,' and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the same institution. Prior to transitioning back to academia in 2014, she worked as an applied economist in government and industry. She has held positions including Senior Health Economics Manager and NSW Health Prevention Support Research Fellowship.

Reeves' research centers on applied health economic evaluation, research translation, and the economic analysis of public health implementation-interventions. Her highly cited works include 'The economic impact of overactive bladder syndrome in six Western countries' (BJU International, 2009), 'The current and future burden and cost of overactive bladder in five European countries' (European Urology, 2006), 'An approach to measuring and encouraging research translation and research impact' (Health Research Policy and Systems, 2016), and 'Economic evaluations of public health implementation-interventions: a systematic review and guideline for practice' (Public Health, 2019). Additional contributions encompass cost-effectiveness analyses of school-based programs such as Physical Activity 4 Everyone (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2016), multi-component interventions to reduce discretionary food consumption in lunchboxes (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021), and practice change interventions for antenatal care addressing maternal alcohol consumption (Implementation Science, 2018). With over 70 research outputs, her scholarship supports evidence-based public health strategies, influencing intervention scaling, policy development, and resource allocation in areas like childhood obesity prevention, physical activity promotion, and chronic disease management across Australia.