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
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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
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
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Expertise
- Health system and policy
- Policy evaluation
- Economic evaluation and priority setting
- Global health
- Preference and behaviour