Research staff
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Professor Lisa Cameron
Professorial Fellow
Program Coordinator
(Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific,
Education and Child Development,
Families and Households,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Criminalisation of sex-work
- Gender inequality in labour markets
- Health services access
- Impact of cash transfers on child development
- Sanitation impacts on child health
- Wellbeing of people living with a disability
- Early childhood development
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Professor John P. de New
Professorial Fellow
Program Coordinator
(Health and Healthcare,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
- Health Outcomes
- Employment policy
- Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
- Labour supply issues tied to sub-populations (e.g. women, Indigenous Australians, medial workforce)
- Non-standard forms of employment
- Social and tax policy as it relates to work incentives
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Professor Guyonne Kalb
Program Director
(Education and Child Development,
Families and Households,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment,
Public Economics)- Labour supply with a focus on female labour force participation
- Impact of social policy on labour supply
- Impact of tax and transfer policies on labour supply
- Parental leave and family policies
- Impact of childcare and early childhood development
- Effects of disadvantage on child development
- Individual health outcomes
- Healthcare workforce and the labour market
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Professor Mark Wooden
Director HILDA Survey and Program Coordinator
(Families and Households,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Family and household wellbeing outcomes
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Intergenerational transmission of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage
- Employment/unemployment over the lifecycle
- Non-standard forms of employment
- Working time
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Professor Yuting Zhang
Professorial Fellow
(Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific,
Health and Healthcare,
Income and Economic Wellbeing,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Financing and organisation of healthcare systems
- Value-based healthcare
- International healthcare reforms, focusing on Australia, US, and China
- Health insurance design and healthcare market competition
- Economic evaluations of health policies
- Mental health policy
- Pharmaceutical policy and economics
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- Health insurance and healthcare finance
- Organisation, funding and performance of healthcare providers
- Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
- Role and impact of funding and financial incentives in healthcare
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Dr Diana Contreras Suárez
Senior Research Fellow
(Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific,
Education and Child Development,
Health and Healthcare,
Labour Markets and Employment)- Gender inequality in labour markets
- Health services access
- Impact of cash transfers on child development
- Sanitation impacts on child health
- Wellbeing of people living with a disability
- Domestic Violence
- Early childhood development
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- Government health policy and regulation
- Public health
- Analysis of healthcare markets
- Production, pricing and market structure
- Size distribution of firms
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- Health insurance and healthcare finance
- Performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
- Health behaviour
- Substance abuse