Dr Norma Bulamu
Senior Research Fellow
College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Norma B. Bulamu is a senior research fellow in Health Economics whose research interests are in measuring and valuing health and patient-reported outcomes, patient and consumer preferences, and economic evaluations in cancer prevention, care and treatment.
Dr Bulamu is a recipient of the Cancer Council Beat Cancer's Early Career Research Fellowship to investigate optimal pathways for the prevention of bowel cancer.
Dr Bulamu has received over A$4M in project funding both as a lead investigator and co-investigator
Dr Bulamu has published in peer-reviewed high-impact journals and is a member of the International Health Economics Association and the Australian Health Economics Society.
PhD, Health Economics
Master of Public Health
Bachelor of Pharmacy
Grants
NHMRC Partnership grant "safe@home: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telemonitoring and virtual care supported by primary care for people living with chronic disease in low socioeconomic neighbourhoods for reducing ambulance ramping, readmission and GP clinic block" Value: A$1,446,999; Role: CIJ; Duration: 2023-2027
Cancer Council Beat Cancer - Early Career Researcher Fellowship "Closing the window: Personalised risk-based surveillance for cost-effective colorectal cancer prevention". Value A$239,867; Role: Fellow; Duration: 2023-2026
Hospital Research Foundation "Finding bowel cancer earlier with non-invasive biomarkers" Value: A$250,000; Role: CID; Duration: 2023-2025
Flinders Foundation "Should we continue or stop surveillance for colorectal cancer in older persons aged over 75 years?" Value: A$24,636; Role: CIC; Duration: 2023-2024
Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing and Flinders Foundation "Improving uptake of prostate cancer screening in men from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds" Value: A$34,979; Role: CIA; Duration: 2022-2023
Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing and Flinders Foundation "Quality of life assessment in routine care for prostate cancer" Value: A$96,221; Role: CIA; Duration: 2021-2023
Medical Research Future Fund, Australia "A liquid biopsy DNA methylation blood test for personalised treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers" Value A$1,980,810; Role: AI; Duration: 2021-2025
Awards
2023 Flinders University Vice-Chancellor Early Career Researcher award
2023 Clinical Excellence award at the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association ACRA ASM, 31st July - 2nd August 2023
2023 3rd Best Poster award at the South Australia Cardiovascular Showcase, 17th November 2023
Undertake specialist health economics research aligned with the funded research projects
Postgraduate research student supervision (PhD, MSc and Honours students)
Convener of the Early Career Researcher special interest group (ECR-SIG) for the International Health Economics Association (IHEA)
Scientific committee member of the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group
Committee member of the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group Quality of Life Subcommittee
Faculty Fellow for the Australia and Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development
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