About us
Health economics makes it possible for decision-makers in the health sector to compare the costs and benefits of their actions and identify the most efficient and effective ways of using available resources to improve health outcomes.
We undertake a variety of methodological and applied health economics research to inform policy and resource allocation decisions in Australia and overseas. These include econometrics analysis and machine learning, economic evaluation (cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and cost-utility analysis), measurement of efficiency and equity in health services, and health systems financing.
We do short-term consultancies and build health economics capacity through the SPH masters program specialisation in health economics.
Our team
Our research
We cover a broad range of areas in health economics, including:
- Development and application of econometric analysis and machine learning to guide health policy decisions.
- Economic evaluation of new and existing health interventions to estimate the value for money.
- Modelling the impact of novel population-based interventions on disease transmission.
- Application of big data analytics in health economics.
- Evaluation of equity and efficiency impact of different health financing mechanisms.
- Evaluation of performance of National Health Insurance Schemes.
- Out-of-pocket medical costs and treatment delays.
Grants
Select competitive research grants:
- NH&MRC Ideas Grant # GNT2013323 "Hospital trajectories for 15 million Australians” (2022-2025). Total Amount: $655,934
- NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT2006240 "Developing a model of Preventative Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disability" (2021-2026). Total Amount: $1,244,755
- NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT1196912 "Community Health Workers Extending Care in the Community" (2020-2025). Total Amount: $1,004,341
- NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT1192469 "Unifying and quality assuring disparate health silos with a common data model." (2020-2023). Total Amount: $735,795
- NH&MRC Project grant #GNT1081344] ‘Economic evaluation of alternative pneumococcal vaccination strategies’ (2015-2017) Total Amount: $236,942
- UK Health Systems Research Initiative (MRC/DFID/Wellcome Trust/ESRC (2017-2022). Making health financing work for the poor: An evaluation of equity in health systems financing in Indonesia. CI. ($1,400,000).
Our PHD Candidates
Current students
Contact Us
We are open to collaboration on health economics and financing topics both within Australia and overseas. Prospective PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows are also welcome.
Please contact anurag.sharma@unsw.edu.au; a.newall@unsw.edu.au or a.asante@unsw.edu.au to express your interest.