Project Partnerships

DESS Consulting partners with a variety of outstanding organizations and project teams to add value to their important work, including:

The European Health Management Association – Policy Management Consulting

DESS Consulting is providing a wide range of in-house consulting services for the European Health Management Association (EHMA), helping the organisation to implement a leading approach to health policy at the European level and ensuring that European health projects are delivered to the highest standards of quality. Projects directly supported by DESS Consulting include ‘Overcoming Obstacles to Vaccination’ and a white paper entitled ‘Strengthening the European Vaccination Ecosystem‘.

The Special Broadcasting Service Cultural Atlas – Cultural Health Profiles

DESS Consulting is working with Incluude to develop a library of cultural competency guides for professionals in healthcare and social work settings, to supplement the information in the SBS Cultural Atlas. These evidence-based guides will be distributed across Australia and used to improve service delivery.

The Impact Cooperative for Australian Cardiovascular Health – ICOACH

DESS Consulting worked alongside the experts at the Hunter Medical Research Institute to design and build frameworks, tools, and skills to improve research translation processes, and to more effectively measure research impact. The result was a freely available suite of online courses that are used by researchers across Australia to help them apply research impact assessment and economic analysis techniques to their projects, helping them to increase the impact of their work and promote its importance to key stakeholders.

Health Policy and Technology: COVID-19 Special Issues

DESS Consulting worked alongside the Value in Health Economics and Policy (VheP) group to develop publications, a promotional social media campaign and web presence for their special issues focused on COVID-19 for the Elsevier journal Health Policy and Technology:

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Policy and Technology Responses in the Making

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Vaccination Strategies and Global Health Polices

Publications

Members of the DESS Consulting network have authored several academic publications, including:

  • Ammi, M., Desson, Z, Doumbia, M. (2023). Non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination during COVID-19 in Canada: Implications for COVID and non-COVID outcomes. Health Policy and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2023.100801
  • Otten, T., Riemsma, R., Wijnen, B., Armstrong, N., Stirk, L., Gordon, C., Ramaekers, B., Kleijnen, J., Joore, M., & Grimm, S. (2022). Belimumab for treating active autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus: An evidence review group perspective of a nice single technology appraisal. PharmacoEconomics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-022-01166-2
  • Desson, Z., Kauer, L., Otten, T., Peters, J. W., & Paolucci, F. (2021). Finding the way forward: COVID-19 vaccination progress in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Health Policy and Technology, 100584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2021.100584
  • Bergquist, S., Otten, T., & Sarich, N. (2020). COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Health Policy and Technology, 9(4), 623–638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.08.007
  • Desson, Z., Lambertz, L., Peters, J. W., Falkenbach, M., & Kauer, L. (2020). Europe’s Covid-19 outliers: German, Austrian and Swiss policy responses during the early stages of the 2020 pandemic. Health Policy and Technology, 9(4), 405–418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.09.003
  • Desson, Z., Weller, E., McMeekin, P., & Ammi, M. (2020). An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada. Health Policy and Technology, 9(4), 430–446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.09.002

DESS Consulting has also provided expert assistance to other publications, including:

  • Medarević, A. (2022). Performance evaluation of general public hospitals in territories of the Former Yugoslavia: An ecological study using the Pabon Lasso model. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3453
  • Medarević, A., & Vuković, D. (2021). Efficiency and productivity of public hospitals in Serbia using DEA-Malmquist model and Tobit regression model, 2015–2019. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), 12475. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312475

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