Background

Dr Rowan Martin-Hughes comes from a background in mathematics and computer science, specialising in game theory and modelling the development of trust. He has years of experience in capacity development in civil society in South East Asia and since 2015 has worked on disease models to improve the allocative efficiency of the response to HIV, TB, and malaria in countries around the world.

Positions

• 2017 – present: Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute
• 2015 – 2017: Research Consultant, Optima
• 2014 – 2015: Research Consultant, Civil Society in Cambodia
• 2011 – 2014: Knowledge Management Advisor, Cooperation Committee for Cambodia

Qualifications

• PhD, Computer Science, Australian National University, 2005 – 2009
• BSc Hons, Mathematics/Computer Science, University of Tasmania, 2001 – 2004

Publications (13)

2021 (1)

• Optima TB: A tool to help optimally allocate tuberculosis spending.
  Goscé L, Abou Jaoude GJ, Kedziora DJ, Benedikt C, Hussain A, Jarvis S, Skrahina A, Klimuk D, Hurevich H, Zhao F, Fraser-Hurt N, Cheikh N, Gorgens M, Wilson DJ, Abeysuriya R, Martin-Hughes R, Kelly SL, Roberts A, Stuart RM, Palmer T, Panovska-Griffiths J, Kerr CC, Wilson DP, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Skordis J, Abubakar I.
  PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Sep; 17(9):e1009255

2020 (2)

• Potential effects of disruption to HIV programmes in sub-Saharan Africa caused by COVID-19: results from multiple mathematical models.
  Jewell BL, Mudimu E, Stover J, Ten Brink D, Phillips AN, Smith JA, Martin-Hughes R, Teng Y, Glaubius R, Mahiane SG, Bansi-Matharu L, Taramusi I, Chagoma N, Morrison M, Doherty M, Marsh K, Bershteyn A, Hallett TB, Kelly SL; HIV Modelling Consortium
  Lancet HIV. 2020 Aug; 7(9):e929-e940
• Potential health gains among key populations in West and Central Africa through savings from lower-cost HIV treatment.
  Stuart RM, Kelly SL, Martin-Hughes R, Wilson DP
  AIDS. 2020 Mar; 34(3):439-446

2019 (3)

• The influence of constraints on the efficient allocation of resources for HIV prevention.
  Stuart RM, Kelly SL, Kerr CC, Martin-Hughes R, Wilson DP
  AIDS. 2019 Oct; 33(12):1949-1950
• What is the impact of a 20% funding cut in international HIV aid from the United States?
  Ten Brink D, Martin-Hughes R, Kelly SL, Wilson DP
  AIDS. 2019 Jul; 33(8):1406-1408
• Applying the 'no-one worse off' criterion to design Pareto efficient HIV responses in Sudan and Togo.
  Stuart RM, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Panovska-Griffiths J, Grobicki L, Skordis J, Kerr CC, Kedziora DJ, Martin-Hughes R, Kelly SL, Wilson DP
  AIDS. 2019 Jun; 33(7):1247-1252

2018 (3)

• "Optima attempts to objectively and pragmatically assist countries meet their targets most efficiently and effectively".
  Wilson DP, Gorgens M, Wilson DJ; Optima HIV study team (including: Robyn M Stuart, Cliff C Kerr, Jolene Skordis, Olivia Keiser, Sherrie Kelly, Rowan Martin-Hughes, Janka Petravic, Richard Gray and Nejma Cheikh)
  J Int AIDS Soc. 2018 Oct; 21(10):e25190
• How should HIV resources be allocated? Lessons learnt from applying Optima HIV in 23 countries.
  Stuart RM, Grobicki L, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Panovska-Griffiths J, Skordis J, Keiser O, Estill J, Baranczuk Z, Kelly SL, Reporter I, Kedziora DJ, Shattock AJ, Petravic J, Hussain SA, Grantham KL, Gray RT, Yap XF, Martin-Hughes R, Benedikt CJ, Fraser-Hurt N, Masaki E, Wilson DJ, Gorgens M, Mziray E, Cheikh N, Shubber Z, Kerr CC, Wilson DP
  J Int AIDS Soc. 2018 Apr; 21(4):e25097
• The global Optima HIV allocative efficiency model: targeting resources in efforts to end AIDS.
  Kelly SL, Martin-Hughes R, Stuart RM, Yap XF, Kedziora DJ, Grantham KL, Hussain SA, Reporter I, Shattock AJ, Grobicki L, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Skordis-Worrall J, Baranczuk Z, Keiser O, Estill J, Petravic J, Gray RT, Benedikt CJ, Fraser N, Gorgens M, Wilson D, Kerr CC, Wilson DP
  Lancet HIV. 2018 Mar; 5(4):e190-e198

2017 (2)

• Getting it right when budgets are tight: Using optimal expansion pathways to prioritize responses to concentrated and mixed HIV epidemics.
  Stuart RM, Kerr CC, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Estill J, Grobicki L, Baranczuk Z, Prieto L, Montañez V, Reporter I, Gray RT, Skordis-Worrall J, Keiser O, Cheikh N, Boonto K, Osornprasop S, Lavadenz F, Benedikt CJ, Martin-Hughes R, Hussain SA, Kelly SL, Kedziora DJ, Wilson DP
  PLoS One. 2017 Oct; 12(10):e0185077
• Maximizing the impact of malaria funding through allocative efficiency: using the right interventions in the right locations.
  Scott N, Hussain SA, Martin-Hughes R, Fowkes FJI, Kerr CC, Pearson R, Kedziora DJ, Killedar M, Stuart RM, Wilson DP
  Malar J. 2017 Sep; 16(1):368

2008 (2)

• Examining the motivations of defection in large-scale open systems.
  Martin-Hughes, R & Renz, J
  ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM-SAC 2008), ed. R.L. Wainwright, H.M. Haddad, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), Fortaleza, Brazil. 2008 Jul
• Cooperation in Growing Communities.
  Martin-Hughes, Rowan
  IFIP International Conference on Trust Management. Springer, Boston, MA. 2008 Jul

News Articles (1)

2019 (1)

• NHMRC Ideas Grants