University of Melbourne Health Economics Group (UMHEG)

UMHEG is a cross-faculty network of over 50 health economists based at The University of Melbourne that conducts collaborative applied and methodological health economic research.

The group aims to:

  • Conduct high quality, policy relevant research across a number of areas of health economics.
  • Build capacity in health economics through post-graduate research supervision and teaching.
  • Create a supportive, connected environment for health economists working across the University.
  • Raise the profile of health economics across the University and Australia.

Faculty of Business and Economics

  • Expertise

    • Health Analytics, Leadership, and Economics (HALE) Hub provides Australians with extensive health data and cutting-edge AI methodologies to provide robust evidence for policy development
    • financing, organisation and the supply of healthcare
    • performance, incentives and competition in healthcare
    • financing and health insurance
    • physician behaviour and labour markets for health professionals (including the MABEL panel survey of doctors)
    • pharmaceutical policies and disparities in medication use
    • the behaviour of individuals with respect to their health and wellbeing (including risky behaviours)
    • the role of education, disadvantage, and life circumstances on health and wellbeing
    • the relationship between employment and health and wellbeing
    • Indigenous wellbeing
    • evaluation of programs targeting individuals’ health status and health related behaviours
    • health in developing countries

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  • Expertise

    • Health in developing countries
    • The economics of risky behaviours
    • Happiness, wellbeing and mental health
    • Welfare systems and choice behaviour
    • Microeconometric models with applications in health economics

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Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

  • Expertise

    • Health system and policy
    • Policy evaluation
    • Economic evaluation and priority setting
    • Global health
    • Preference and behaviour

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Program contacts

Dr. Susan J. Méndez
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Business and Economics


Dr. Justin McKinley
Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health