Dr Jyoti Khadka

Senior Research Fellow

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

+61 8 82013734

jyoti.khadka@flinders.edu.au

Sturt North (N202)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Jyoti Khadka is an optometrist by training. He worked in the Flinders Optometry space for seven years as an academic researcher before moving on to healthy ageing, health economics, health services and aged care research. He was awarded a PhD at Cardiff University in the UK, followed by a Post-doctoral fellowship at Flinders University. His main areas of research interests are in healthy ageing, patient-reported outcomes, frailty, quality of life and the application of modern psychometric methods, including item response theory (IRT) and Rasch analysis, to develop, validate and implement quality of life instruments. His other research interests include exploring ways to improve the quality of both preference and non-preference based instruments to measure and value health and quality of life outcomes in children and adults for health economics evaluations across the health, aged care and social care sectors.

Qualifications

PhD (2010)
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
Thesis title: Development of a Visual Ability Measuring Questionnaire for Children

MPhil (2007)
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
Thesis title: Impact of Visual Impairment in Children

Bachelor of Optometry (2003)
Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Honours, awards and grants

Improving the quality and safety of aged care: “Health Economics Implications of Monitoring Safety and Quality of Aged Care in Australia: The Hospital Research Foundation- 2020-21: Project Grant Experienced Category. $1,29,500. J Khadka. J Ractcliffe, M Inacio, S Wesselingh.
Choice Experiment Aiming to Optimize the Response to Financial Toxicity due to Cancer and its treatment. Research Theme Investment Scheme Seed Funding (2019)- $38300: I Olver, J Ratcliffe, Alex Brown, K Fennell, J Khadka.
Medical Research Future Fund-Acting fast to increase time-critical stroke treatment to all South Australians (2019-2020)- $220000.S Hiller, T Kleinig, S Koblar, J Jammes, J Khadka, K Dixon, B Martin, A Hamilton-Bruce, A Milton.
The Centre for Applied Finance and Economics (CAFÉ) Seeding Funding- $ 3600: Investigating the potential of Eye-Tracking to add to discrete choice experiment studies (Feb- Dec 2018). J Khadka, R Milte, J Ratcliffe
The Centre for Applied Finance and Economics (CAFÉ) Seeding Funding- $ 1905: Creating a Multi-Attribute Utility Item banking for economic evaluations in paediatric population. (Feb- Dec 2018). J Khadka
FMNHS (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Flinders University) Seeding Grant (01.529.39789: Jan-Dec 2015) A$ 15000: Development of a novel testing system to measure the impact of age-related macular degeneration on quality of life. J Khadka
FMNHS (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Flinders University) Seeding Grant (01.529.40469: Jan-Dec 2016) A$18,000: The prioritisation of people on cataract surgery waiting lists. J Khadka (CIA)