Australian National University Health Economics Group
Australian National University Health Economics Group is a cross-college network of health economists and applied economists conducting health economic research at the Australian National University.
The group have a broad range of expertise in key research areas in health economics, including social determinants of health, child development, economics of aging, economics of health workforce, the market of new health technologies, health care financing and funding, health preference research, and economic evaluations in Health Technology Assessment.
We invite policy makers and industry leaders to collaborate with our health economics group to bridge the gap between evidence and effective policy and practice in healthcare. We are excited about the opportunity to collaborate with your organization, combining our expertise and innovative resources to tackle today’s most pressing healthcare challenges.
Objectives
- Enhance cross-college collaborations in conducting high quality, policy relevant research across a variety of health economics areas.
- Build capacity in health economics through collaborations in teaching in health economics and post-graduate research supervision.
- Foster cross-college collaborations in funding applications
- Promote the importance of health economics research and raise the profile of health economics across the Australian National University and Australia.
- Create a supportive, connected environment for all health economists working across the Australian National University.
Join us
Please contact the network convener Dr Jinhu Li at jinhu.li@anu.edu.au to join the group.
Members
Dr Jinhu Li
Role: Convener
Affiliation: Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Law, Governance and Policy
Expertise areas: Social determinants of health, human capital formation, economics of health workforce, child development, financial incentives and physician behaviours, causal inference methods, Discrete Choice Experiments
Dr Elisabeth Huynh
Role: Member
Affiliation: Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Law, Governance and Policy
Expertise areas: Health preference research, Stated Preference Methods, Discrete choice experiments, Best-worst scaling, Health workforce, Healthy ageing, Nutrition and Physical activity, Quality of Life
Dr Giovanni van Empel
Role: Member
Affiliation: Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Law, Governance and Policy
Expertise areas:
Economics of healthcare, competition in healthcare, early childhood education, healthcare insurance in developing countries, organisational aspects of healthcare delivery
Dr Tinh Doan
Role: Member
Affiliation: Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Law, Governance and Policy
Expertise areas:
Health and employment, Labour market, human capital and employment, Working and well-being, Household economics, Program/intervention impact evaluation, microeconometric modelling
Associate Professor Firman Kartaadipoetra
Role: Member
Affiliation: Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy
Expertise areas:
Development and health, health behaviour and outcomes, economics of ageing, human capital formation, intergenerational transmission of health, health workforce quality
