I am a health economist specialising in maternal and women's health. I am Professor of Women’s Health Economics at Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University.

I gained a PhD, and Postdoctoral training at the University of Sydney, School of Public Health, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre and Charles Perkins Centre. I have held NHMRC Doctoral Scholarship, NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and NHMRC Career Development Fellowship support.

I lead a Women’s Economics and Value-Based Care research program, externally funded by a number of NHMRC and MRFF grants. This includes undertaking economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials, measuring costs and outcomes with real-world linked administrative data, and conducting local-health service level economic modelling. This work has improved health service provision across Australia and internationally.

I am a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee Economics Subcommittee, where I provide economic advice on all new drugs seeking public subsidisation through the PBS; and the Medical Services Advisory Committee Evaluation Subcommittee where I provide economic advice on all services seeking public subsidisation through Medicare. I am the only individual to sit across both committees.

My mission is to improve the equity and efficiency of health services and systems by embedding economic evidence into decision-making.

My research focuses on maternal and women's health. Methodologically I have expertise in the use of linked administrative data, economic evaluation alongside clinical and implementation trials, and modelled economic analysis. 

Through my research I seek to influence health care policy and delivery to ensure accessible and equitable, as well as efficient, care for all. This has included the delivery of health care through more efficient staffing models, the delivery of care to remote populations through the national Breastscreen program and the national Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Programm, evaluation of national maternity policies and initiatives such as the Safer Baby Bundle, development of state maternity policy, the Normal Birth Strategy, and providing cost analysis for the Gates Foundation investment in maternal health programs accross low and middle income countries.

Overall, I seek to forge genuine partnerships with government, health services and consumers to embed economic research into health systems and health policy.