Marcin Sowa received a PhD in health economics in 2014, and has subsequently held academic positions with the Australian National University, Griffith University, and the University of Queensland. Dr Sowa has led academic and commissioned research projects in the areas of health sector reform, hospital performance, private health insurance, risk equalisation, economics of chronic disease, models of care, and sugar tax policy. He has authored a scholarly book on the governance of hospitals and published original research papers in such discipline-leading journals as Health Policy, European Journal of Public Health, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Ageing and Society, Nutrients and the Journal of Palliative Care. He has been a lecturer and coordinator of post-graduate courses ‘Economic Evaluation and Health’ and ‘Health Economics and Policy’ in the UQ School of Economics, and a supervisor of honours, master’s and doctoral students. Dr Sowa is an appointed member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee - Evaluation Sub-committee (MSAC-ESC) advising the Australian Government on the issues of health technology assessment. In 2017 he received the Metro North Research Excellence Prize, awarded to the Kidney Supportive Care research team in the category ‘Health Services and Implementation Research’.
Wong, Alvin, Huang, Yingxiao, Sowa, Przemyslaw M., Banks, Merrilyn D. and Bauer, Judith D. (2023). An Umbrella Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions, Excluding Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, Initiated in the Hospital for Adults with or at Risk of Malnutrition. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 118 (3), 672-696. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.07.003
Journal Article: Child dental benefits schedule subsidised existing utilisation of dental care over addressing unmet needs
Stormon, Nicole and Sowa, Marcin (2023). Child dental benefits schedule subsidised existing utilisation of dental care over addressing unmet needs. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2023 5764573, 1-10. doi: 10.1155/2023/5764573
Journal Article: National wastewater reconnaissance of analgesic consumption in Australia
Ahmed, Fahad, Tscharke, Benjamin, O’Brien, Jake W., Hall, Wayne D., Cabot, Peter J., Sowa, P. Marcin, Samanipour, Saer and Thomas, Kevin V. (2023). National wastewater reconnaissance of analgesic consumption in Australia. Environmental Science and Technology, 57 (4), 1712-1720. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06691
High-flow oxygen for children's airway surgery; a randomised controlled trial.
(2020–2023) Thrasher Research Fund
(2019–2021) UQ Early Career Researcher
(2019–2020) West Moreton Hospital and Health Service
(2023) Doctor Philosophy
Nutri-economics: The impact of malnutrition and home enteral nutrition support on the Singapore healthcare model
Doctor Philosophy
Investing in health as a pathway to improved economic performance
Doctor Philosophy
Governance of hospitals in central and eastern Europe
Sowa, Przemyslaw Marcin (2016). Governance of hospitals in central and eastern Europe. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-766-6
Wong, Alvin, Huang, Yingxiao, Sowa, Przemyslaw M., Banks, Merrilyn D. and Bauer, Judith D. (2023). An Umbrella Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions, Excluding Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, Initiated in the Hospital for Adults with or at Risk of Malnutrition. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 118 (3), 672-696. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.07.003
Stormon, Nicole and Sowa, Marcin (2023). Child dental benefits schedule subsidised existing utilisation of dental care over addressing unmet needs. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2023 5764573, 1-10. doi: 10.1155/2023/5764573
National wastewater reconnaissance of analgesic consumption in Australia
Ahmed, Fahad, Tscharke, Benjamin, O’Brien, Jake W., Hall, Wayne D., Cabot, Peter J., Sowa, P. Marcin, Samanipour, Saer and Thomas, Kevin V. (2023). National wastewater reconnaissance of analgesic consumption in Australia. Environmental Science and Technology, 57 (4), 1712-1720. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06691
Martin, Aleysha K., Green, Theresa L., McCarthy, Alexandra L., Sowa, P. Marcin and Laakso, E-Liisa (2022). Transdisciplinary allied health assessment for patients with stroke: a pre-/post- mixed methods study protocol. BMC Health Services Research, 22 (1) 1578, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08926-y
Sowa, P. Marcin and Birch, Stephen (2022). The effects of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax: moving beyond dental health outcomes and service utilisation. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 18 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1017/s1744133122000147
Sowa, P. Marcin, Fooken, Jonas, McGowan, Kelly and Birch, Stephen (2022). Disposable and reusable instruments in dental health practice: a comparison of cost factors in a public provider organization in Queensland, Australia. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 51 (5), 794-803. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12764
Wong, Alvin, Huang, Yingxiao, Sowa, Przemyslaw M., Banks, Merrilyn D. and Bauer, Judith D. (2022). Effectiveness of dietary counselling with or without nutritional supplementation in hospitalised patients who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition ‐ a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 46 (7), 1502-1521. doi: 10.1002/jpen.2395
Healthcare teams: Terminology, confusion, and ramifications
Martin, Aleysha K, Green, Theresa L, McCarthy, Alexandra L, Sowa, P Marcin and Laakso, E-Liisa (2022). Healthcare teams: Terminology, confusion, and ramifications. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 15, 765-772. doi: 10.2147/jmdh.s342197
Allied health transdisciplinary models of care in hospital settings: A scoping review
Martin, A.K., Green, T. L., McCarthy, A. L., Sowa, P. M. and Laakso, E-L. (2022). Allied health transdisciplinary models of care in hospital settings: A scoping review . Journal of Interprofessional Care, 37 (1), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2022.2038552
Zhang, Jianzhen, Wang, Zaimin, Cameron, Anne, Sowa, P. Marcin, Diwan, Vishal, Venuthurupalli, Sree Krishna, Healy, Helen G., Connelly, Luke B. and Hoy, Wendy E. (2021). The CKD.QLD data linkage framework: chronic kidney disease and health services utilisation in Queensland, Australia. F1000Research, 10 1107. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.53782.1
Sowa, P. Marcin, Venuthurupalli, Sree K., Hoy, Wendy E., Zhang, Jianzhen, Cameron, Anne, Healy, Helen G. and Connelly, Luke B. (2021). Identification of factors associated with high-cost use of inpatient care in chronic kidney disease: a registry study. BMJ open, 11 (8) e049755, e049755. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049755
Developing a prototype for integrated dental and diabetes care: understanding needs and priorities
McGowan, Kelly, Phillips, Tania, Gielis, Ellen, Dover, Thomas, Mitchell, Geoffrey, Mutch, Allyson, Sexton, Christopher, Sowa, P Marcin and Ivanovski, Saso (2020). Developing a prototype for integrated dental and diabetes care: understanding needs and priorities. Australian Dental Journal, 66 (1) adj.12804, 41-48. doi: 10.1111/adj.12804
Wong, Alvin, Goh, Qiu Le, Goh, Soon Noi, Sowa, Przemyslaw M., Banks, Merrilyn D. and Bauer, Judith D. (2020). Medical nutrition reimbursement in Singapore: who are the patients receiving MediFund assistance? An audit of clinical outcomes and Issues Pertaining to Reimbursement in a Public Hospital in Singapore. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 45 (7) jpen.2043, 1532-1541. doi: 10.1002/jpen.2043
Wong, Alvin, Huang, Yingxiao, Sowa, Przemyslaw M, Banks, Merrilyn D and Bauer, Judith D (2020). Adult malnutrition, nutritional interventions and outcomes in Singapore: a scoping review of local studies for the past 20 years. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 30 (3) ARTN 2010105820964829, 201010582096482-241. doi: 10.1177/2010105820964829
Facilitating access to dental care for people experiencing homelessness
Stormon, N., Sowa, P.M., Anderson, J. and Ford, P.J. (2020). Facilitating access to dental care for people experiencing homelessness. JDR Clinical and Translational Research, 6 (4), 238008442095235-429. doi: 10.1177/2380084420952350
Wong, A., Goh, S.N., Sowa, P.M. and Bauer, J.D. (2020). A narrative review of healthcare financing and reimbursement of nutritional support for patients in Singapore. Health Policy, 124 (10), 1146-1154. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.06.008
Home enteral nutrition in Singapore's long-term care homes—incidence, prevalence, cost, and staffing
Wong, Alvin, Sowa, P. Marcin, Banks, Merrilyn D. and Bauer, Judith D. (2019). Home enteral nutrition in Singapore's long-term care homes—incidence, prevalence, cost, and staffing. Nutrients, 11 (10) 2492, 2492. doi: 10.3390/nu11102492
High-flow oxygen for children's airway surgery: randomised controlled trial protocol (HAMSTER)
Humphreys, Susan, von Ungern-Sternberg, Britta Sylvia, Skowno, Justin, Williams, Tara, Taylor, Julia, Taverner, Fiona, Gibbons, Kristen, Burgoyne, Laura, Sommerfield, David, Stephens, Philip, Hallett, Ben, Vijayasekaran, Shyan, Slee, Nicola, Burns, Hannah, Sowa, Marcin, Davidson, Andrew and Schibler, Andreas (2019). High-flow oxygen for children's airway surgery: randomised controlled trial protocol (HAMSTER). BMJ Open, 9 (10) e031873, 1-6. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031873
Utilization and costs of health care in a kidney supportive care program
Sowa, P. Marcin, Purtell, Louise, Hoy, Wendy E., Healy, Helen G., Bonner, Ann and Connelly, Luke B. (2019). Utilization and costs of health care in a kidney supportive care program. Journal of Palliative Care, 35 (3), 082585971986817-184. doi: 10.1177/0825859719868174
The impact of a sugar-sweetened beverages tax on oral health and costs of dental care in Australia
Sowa, P. Marcin, Keller, Elena, Stormon, Nicole, Lalloo, Ratilal and Ford, Pauline J. (2019). The impact of a sugar-sweetened beverages tax on oral health and costs of dental care in Australia. European Journal of Public Health, 29 (1), 173-177. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cky087
The Kidney Supportive Care programme: characteristics of patients referred to a new model of care
Purtell, Louise, Sowa, P. Marcin, Berquier, Ilse, Scuderi, Carla, Douglas, Carol, Taylor, Bernadette, Kramer, Katrina, Hoy, Wendy, Healy, Helen and Bonner, Ann (2018). The Kidney Supportive Care programme: characteristics of patients referred to a new model of care. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 351 bmjspcare-2018-001630, bmjspcare-2018. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001630
Private health insurance incentives in Australia: in search of cost-effective adjustments
Sowa, P. Marcin, Kault, Sam, Byrnes, Joshua, Ng, Shu-Kay, Comans, Tracy and Scuffham, Paul A. (2017). Private health insurance incentives in Australia: in search of cost-effective adjustments. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 16 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s40258-017-0338-6
Sowa, P. Marcin, Downes, Martin J. and Gordon, Louisa G. (2017). Cost-effectiveness of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry plus antiresorptive treatment in Australian women with breast cancer who receive aromatase inhibitors. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism, 35 (2), 199-208. doi: 10.1007/s00774-016-0742-2
Mandatory aged care insurance: a case for Australia
Paolucci, Francesco, Sowa, Przemyslaw M., Garcia-Goni, Manuel and Ergas, Henry (2015). Mandatory aged care insurance: a case for Australia. Ageing and Society, 35 (2), 231-245. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X13000767
Understanding health and social care
Sowa, Przemyslaw M. (2013). Understanding health and social care. International Journal of Integrated Care, 13 (2), 1-2. doi: 10.5334/ijic.1172
Incentives and Choice in Healthcare
Paolucci, Francesco and Sowa, Przemyslaw M. (2011). Incentives and Choice in Healthcare. Economic Record, 87 (276), 174-176. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00715.x
Sowa, Przemyslaw M., Butler, Jim R. G., Connelly, Luke B. and Paolucci, Francesco (2013). Health-care accessibility in seven countries in eastern Europe: a multinomial logit study of individual unmet medical needs. Global Health Metrics and Evauation: Data, Debates, Directions, Seattle, WA, United States, 17-19 June 2013. London, United Kingdom: Lancet Publishing Group. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61389-6
Unmet medical needs and health care accessibility in seven countries of Eastern Europe
Sowa, P. Marcin, Butler, James R.G. and Connelly, Luke B. (2014). Unmet medical needs and health care accessibility in seven countries of Eastern Europe. MPRA Paper. 75619. Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH), The Australian National University.
High-flow oxygen for children's airway surgery; a randomised controlled trial.
(2020–2023) Thrasher Research Fund
(2019–2021) UQ Early Career Researcher
(2019–2020) West Moreton Hospital and Health Service
Nutri-economics: The impact of malnutrition and home enteral nutrition support on the Singapore healthcare model
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Investing in health as a pathway to improved economic performance
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
The changing face of head and neck cancer: addressing and advancing best-practice nutritional care to improve outcomes for patients with human papillomavirus-associated disease
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Transdisciplinary stroke assessment: Can it improve allied health efficiency and care on an acute stroke unit?
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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