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, and
- Raise the profile of health economics across the University and Australia.
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Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research
Expertise
- health care 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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Department of Economics
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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Health Economics Unit, Centre for Health Policy
Expertise
- Economic evaluation and health technology assessment
- Measuring and valuing health outcomes
- Choice modelling
- Health systems research
- Simulation modelling and risk prediction
- Health inequality
- Methodological research
- Specialisations in:
- child and global child health,
- genomics and personalised medicine,
- diabetes, cardiovascular diseases,
- osteoarthritis and others.
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Nossal Institute for Global Health
Expertise
- Health system and policy
- Policy evaluation
- Economic evaluation and priority setting
- Global health
- Preference and behaviour
Program details
Coordinators
Dr. Susan J. Méndez, Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research
Dr. Justin McKinley, Nossal Institute for Global Health
Dr. Li Huang , Health Economics Unit, Centre for Health Policy
Dr. Yan Meng, Health Economics Unit, Centre for Health Policy