Our people
Kees van Gool
Kees van Gool is Professor of Health Economics and Executive Director, Pricing and Analytics at the Independent Hospital and Aged Care Pricing Authority. Kees has extensive experience in program evaluation and economic analysis, with a strong focus on applied research. He is the lead investigator for the Centre of Research Excellence in Value Based Cancer Care.
Research interests
- Health financing
- Primary care
- Healthcare costs
- Comparative health system performance
- Equity
Jane Hall
Jane Hall is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics in the UTS Business School and the Director of Strategy for the Centre of Health Economics Research and Evaluation. She has worked across many areas of health economics, including health technology assessment, the measurement of quality of life, end of life care, health workforce, the economics of primary care and funding and financing issues.
Research interests
- Healthcare funding
- Insurance design
- Equity
Philip Haywood
Philip Haywood is a health economist, physician, and expert in value-based payments with over 25 years of experience. He leads the OECD's work on health system resilience and specializes in evaluating new funding mechanisms. Beyond the OECD, Phil holds academic appointments in Australia and has extensive experience in using MBS and PBS to answer policy-relevant questions.
Research interests
- Health system resilience
- Integrated care
- Value-based care
Denzil Fiebig
Denzil took up his current position of Professor in the School of Economics, UNSW Business School in 2001 having previously held a chair in econometrics at the University of Sydney. He has served terms as discipline head at both universities.
Research interests
- Econometrics
- Health economics
Richard De Abreu Lourenco
Associate Professor De Abreu Lourenco is the Senior Evaluator for CHERE’s PBAC evaluation services provided to the Department of Health and the Project Lead for the Cancer Australia funded Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST). Richard is an experienced health economist with over 20 years’ experience, spending time in academia and the private sector focusing on access to health care in Australia.
Research interests
- Decision-making in cancer care
- Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials
- Demonstrating value for reimbursement purposes
- Consumer engagement
- Choice
Serena Yu
Serena is a Senior Research Fellow at CHERE where her focus is on policy and outcome evaluation. She has applied her econometric expertise to a range of topics, including health, aged care, wages, and pension policy. At CHERE she specialises in the use of administrative and survey data and has built a strong track record in NHMRC-funded projects. She received her PhD and prize for Best Thesis in Economics from the University of Sydney in 2016.
Research interests
- Provider behaviour
- Economics of maternity and neonatal care
Sarah Wise
Sarah is Senior Lecturer in Health Services Management, School of Public Health, UTS Health. Sarah has managed and conducted numerous research and evaluation projects, in health, aged care and the broader economy, for a range of government, union and industry partners. Sarah brings her specialist expertise in the healthcare workforce and the organisation of healthcare work to help understand the barriers and enablers to payment reform.
Research Interests
- Workloads
- Skill mix
- Teamwork
- Health professions
- Institutional and funding barriers to health reform
Maryam Naghsh Nejad
Maryam is a Senior Research Fellow at CHERE where she works on economic evaluation projects. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Maryam was the deputy director of Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries (GLM-LIC) at IZA where she worked with academic and policy makers globally on labour market projects in low-income countries.
Research interests
- Migration
- Health
- Labour
- Development economics
Dan Liu
Dan Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at CHERE. Prior to joining CHERE, Dan worked as a Research Fellow at the University of York, UK. She has experience working at the World Health Organization (Switzerland) and Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (China).
Research interests
- Health system reform
- Policy and program evaluation
- Quality of primary and secondary care
- Global health
- Spatial econometrics
Patricia Kenny
Patsy is a Senior Research Fellow and joined CHERE in 1990. She worked as a registered nurse before completing the BA in Government and Political Economy at The University of Sydney. Patsy was awarded her Master of Public Health from The University of Sydney in 1998, her treatise investigated patient participation in treatment decisions for breast cancer.
Research interests
- Valuing care at the end of life
- Consumer preferences
- Informal care in economic evaluation
- Nursing workforce issues
Lutfun Hossain
Lutfun Hossain is a pharmacist and Research Fellow at CHERE. Lutfun is currently exploring the international literature on bundled payments in oncology and assessing their translatability to the Australian setting.
Research interests
- Bundled payments
- Primary care
- Healthcare costs
- Medication utilisation
Peyman Firouzi Naeim
Peyman is a Research Fellow with a PhD in Economics from the Andrew Young School of Public Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
Prior to joining CHERE, Peyman was a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), where he worked on developing and estimating life-cycle models to address age-dependent taxation schemes.
Research Interests
- Health and public economics
- applied econometrics
