Jim Pearse is Director, Health Policy Analysis Pty Ltd,
a consulting firm focusing on health policy, analysis of health data for
decision making, performance indicators and health economics. He also holds a
fractional appointment as Associate Professor with the University of Wollongong
in the Centre for Health Service Development.
For 18 years he worked in various health and social policy areas within the public sector, most recently with the NSW Health Department. Within NSW Health he has led work on the achievement of Government equity objectives through resource allocation policies and models, and the implementation of output oriented funding approaches for hospital services. Jim was chair of the Resource Distribution Formula Advisory Committee between 1996 and 2003. Jim Pearse has also been involved in a range of national and state health reform initiatives and the negotiation of Commonwealth/State funding arrangements for hospital services. He was a member of the Australian National Health Performance Committee and has provided leadership in the development of a framework for measuring national health system performance and reporting against this framework.
His publications and research include - population based resource allocation models, including the use of risk adjustment in capitation payment, the fiscal relationship between federal and state governments, casemix classification, efficiency of hospitals, costs of providing health services to indigenous peoples, measurement of health system performance, international comparison of health system performance. Jim Pearse was a 2000-2001 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy. During his Fellowship he was based at the Bloomfield School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University where he studied the implementation of risk adjustment in capitation payment arrangements in the United States.