DrNikki McCaffrey
Associate Professor
Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation
Orcid identifier0000-0003-3684-3723 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation
- +61 3 924 68767 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Knowledge Areas
Health economics
Economics of cancer
Economics of palliative and end-of-life care
Informal care
Outcome measurement
Projects
A/Prof McCaffrey's research interests concern informing policymakers about the value for money and equity impacts of approaches aimed at reducing the burden of cancer and improving the quality of life of people living with cancer and their families. Nikki also has a keen interest in using economic analyses to improve health and support services for informal carers, advancing methods of capturing outcomes for carers and people in palliative and end-of-life settings, and working with community members to inform her research.
Examples of current research include:
A social return on investment of a telephone cancer information and support service;
Economic evaluation of preoperative smoking cessation to prevent postsurgical complications;
Cost-effectiveness of training general practitioners in dermoscopy for skin cancer detection;
Patterns and predictors of health and social care use in the last year of life for people diagnosed with melanoma, acute myeloid leukaemia, and head and neck cancers.
GRANTS
- GRANTCo-Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Supportive Care for Adolescents and Young Adults with Crohns and Colitis and their Carers (CAYAC)1 Mar 2027 - 29 Feb 2032People funded by this grant:
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Evans S,
- Knowles S,
- Giles E,
- Orellana L
- GRANTEnhancing Community Engagement in TBI Rehabilitation Through the Social Brain Toolkit: A Framework for Implementation and Impact1 Jun 2025 - 31 May 2027People funded by this grant:
- Rietdijk R,
- McCaffrey N
- GRANTTeleCARE: A personalised, clinician-supported, virtual care telehealth exercise, nutrition, education, behaviour change and peer support model for cancer-related fatigue1 Apr 2025 - 31 Mar 2030People funded by this grant:
- Daly R,
- Bolam K,
- Howden E,
- Via JD,
- Hutchinson A
- GRANTHealth Economics Services for Preventive Health SA19 Feb 2025 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Ananthapavan J,
- Brown V,
- Robinson S,
- McCaffrey N
- GRANTValidation of the EQ-HWB-S for measuring the health and wellbeing of informal carers1 Oct 2024 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Gao L,
- Engel L,
- McCaffrey N,
- Rand S,
- Finch A
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCARER HUB: A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CANCER CARER RESEARCH, TRANSLATION & IMPACT22 Aug 2023 - 28 Aug 2026People funded by this grant:
- GRANTCoDeEndo: Co-Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Supportive Care for Endometriosis1 Feb 2023 - 31 Aug 2028People funded by this grant:
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Evans S,
- Livingston T,
- Orellana L,
- McCaffrey N
- GRANTCoDeEndo: Co-Designing, Evaluating, and Implementing Supportive Care for Endometriosis1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2028People funded by this grant:
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Evans S,
- Livingston T,
- Orellana L,
- McCaffrey N
- GRANTiCare - An interactive online portal to improve health and wellbeing for people living with complex cancers, and their informal carers: a Phase II randomised controlled trial1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2026People funded by this grant:
- Livingston T,
- White V,
- Orellana L,
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Jefford M
- GRANTiCare - An interactive online portal to improve health and wellbeing for people living with complex cancers, and their informal carers: a Phase II randomised controlled trial1 Feb 2023 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Livingston T,
- White V,
- Orellana L,
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Jefford M
- GRANTRandomized E-hypnotherapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Trial (REST)1 Feb 2023 - 31 May 2028People funded by this grant:
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Evans S,
- McCaffrey N,
- Esterman A,
- Andrews J
- GRANTRandomized E-hypnotherapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Trial (REST)1 Feb 2023 - 31 Jan 2028People funded by this grant:
- Mikocka-Walus A,
- Evans S,
- McCaffrey N,
- Esterman A,
- Andrews J
- CONTRACT RESEARCHEconomics of Cancer Collaboration1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2027People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- Robinson S,
- Peeters A
- FELLOWSHIPEconomics of Cancer Care across the Continuum in Victoria (ECCC)5 Apr 2021 - 4 Apr 2025People funded by this grant:
- Nikki McCaffrey
- GRANTDefining and optimising the economic and social return on investment of telephone cancer information and support services for all Australians1 Apr 2021 - 30 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- White V,
- Livingston T,
- Mihalopoulos C,
- Paul C
- GRANTDefining and optimising the economic and social return on investment of telephone cancer information and support services for all Australians1 Apr 2021 - 31 Mar 2025People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- White V,
- Livingston T,
- Mihalopoulos C,
- Paul C
- GRANTDefining and optimising the economic and social return on investment of telephone cancer information and support services for all Australians1 Apr 2021 - 30 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- White V,
- Livingston T,
- Mihalopoulos C,
- Paul C
- GRANTDefining and optimising the economic and social return on investment of telephone cancer information and support services for all Australians1 Apr 2021 - 30 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- White V,
- Livingston T,
- Mihalopoulos C,
- Paul C
- GRANTSecuring high-quality of cAre For cancer patients at their End-of-life: the SAFE-study1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2025People funded by this grant:
- Aas E,
- Hagen T,
- Thoresen L,
- Forma L,
- McCaffrey N
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCost-effectiveness of embedding a smoking cessation model of care into the Victorian health service setting to increase smoking cessation.3 Jun 2020 - 31 May 2021People funded by this grant:
- Nikki McCaffrey
- CONTRACT RESEARCHEconomic evaluation of the WA LiveLighter campaign.18 Sep 2019 - 31 Jul 2020People funded by this grant:
- Ananthapavan J,
- Moodie M,
- Tran M,
- McCaffrey N
- GRANTEstimating the value of informal care provided to people with dementia in Australia1 Mar 2019 - 1 Sep 2021People funded by this grant:
- Engel L,
- Mihalopoulos C,
- McCaffrey N,
- Muldowney A
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAn Integrated Care Intervention to Reduce Breathlessness in Patients with Moderate to Very Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)NSW Ministry of Health13 Apr 2018 - 30 Dec 2020People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- Wheatley J,
- Smith T,
- Roberts M,
- Cho JG
- GRANTImplementing a national clinical pathway for pain to ensure equitable, cost-effective, evidence based, person-centred care for people with advanced breast and other cancers1 Nov 2017 - 31 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Nikki McCaffrey
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAn Integrated Care Intervention to Reduce Breathlessness in Patients with Moderate to Very Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)1 Sep 2017 - 30 Dec 2020People funded by this grant:
- McCaffrey N,
- Wheatley J,
- Smith T,
- Roberts M,
- Cho JG