Centre for the Business and Economics of Health

Dr Bao Nguyen

Research Fellow
Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
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Dr Bao Nguyen

About 

I’m a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH) at The University of Queensland. My expertise analyses the productivity and efficiency of health facilities, with a special focus on public hospitals. I’m passionate about helping health managers, senior leaders and policymakers to utilise their health resources and workforce more efficiently.

My current research aims to improve theoretical and practical methods for analysing productivity and efficiency in health settings. This research helps provide reliable answers to policy-relevant issues, such as the causal impact of health reforms on the performance of hospitals.

Research interests 

Productivity and efficiency analysis in healthcare environments: examining performance and identifying the sources of performance differentials in health facilities.

Applied econometrics and statistics in health settings: applying and further developing advanced statistical and econometric methods to examine key drivers of the performance in health facilities.

Big data and machine learning in health settings: applying machine learning techniques to study the performance of health facilities in the context of big data.

Research impact and partnerships 

My insights and research provide policymakers with an enhanced toolbox to better understand the performance within their health systems and assists to identify potential improvements and necessary reforms.

I have been published in high-quality international journals. I also contributed to a report on the efficient cost of residential aged care for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, creating direct impact on government decision making on aged care spending. This research was featured on national radio and media outlets, such as The Guardian, Australian Financial Review, 7 News, The Sydney Morning Herald, The New Daily and ABC Radio National - Rear Vision.

 

 

Publications

Book Chapters (3)
Journal Articles (4)
Thesis (1)
Research Report (1)

Book Chapters

Nguyen, Bao Hoang, Sickles, Robin C. and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2022). Efficiency analysis with stochastic frontier models using popular statistical softwares. Advances in economic measurement: a volume in honour of D. S. Prasada Rao. (pp. 129-171) edited by Duangkamon Chotikapanich, Alicia N. Rambaldi and Nicholas Rohde. Singapore, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-2023-3_3
Nguyen, Bao Hoang and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2021). Robust efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Queensland, Australia. Advances in contemporary statistics and econometrics: festschrift in honor of Christine Thomas-Agnan. (pp. 221-242) edited by Abdelaati Daouia and Anne Ruiz-Gazen. Cham, Switzerland: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-73249-3_12
Nguyen, Bao Hoang and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2021). Aggregation of outputs and inputs for DEA analysis of hospital efficiency: economics, operations research and data science perspectives. Data-enabled analytics: DEA for Big Data. (pp. 123-158) edited by Joe Zhu and Vincent Charles. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75162-3_5

Journal Articles

Nguyen, Bao Hoang, Grosskopf, Shawna, Yong, Jongsay and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2024). Activity‐based funding reform and the performance of public hospitals: The case of Queensland, Australia. Economic Inquiry, 62 (4), 1679-1701. doi: 10.1111/ecin.13246
Wang, Zhichao, Nguyen, Bao Hoang and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2024). Performance analysis of hospitals in Australia and its peers: a systematic and critical review. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 62 (2), 1-35. doi: 10.1007/s11123-024-00729-z
Nguyen, Bao Hoang, Simar, Léopold and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2022). Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators. European Journal of Operational Research, 303 (3), 1469-1480. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.03.038
Nguyen, Bao Hoang and Zelenyuk, Valentin (2021). Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals. Empirical Economics, 60 (6), 2795-2836. doi: 10.1007/s00181-020-01994-1

Thesis

Nguyen, Bao Hoang (2022). Advanced methodologies in efficiency analysis: novel developments and applications to public hospitals in Queensland, Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Economics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/6ab606c

Research Report

Comans, Tracy, Nguyen, Kim-Huong, Zelenyuk, Valentin, Gray, Len, Tran, Alice, Nguyen, Bao, Wang, Zhichao and Moretto, Nicole (2020). Research Paper 9 - The cost of residential aged care. Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Royal Commission into Aged Care Qualtiy and Safety.