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Biography
Emily Lancsar is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics.
Her broad research interests are in understanding and modelling choice, preferences and behaviour of key decision makers in the health sector and in priority setting in the context of health technology assessment.
Emily currently holds an ARC DECRA in which she is using discrete choice and economic laboratory experiments to explore the role of behavioural and standard economics in preventing and reducing obesity, is leading an NHMRC grant on eliciting societal and decision maker preferences for priority setting, and is a CI on a number of other ARC, NHMRC and NIHR funded projects.
She is a member of the Economic Sub-Committee of the Australian Medical Services Advisory Committee and of the Social Science and Economic Advisory Group of Food Standards Australia New Zealand.
Joining Monash in 2011 represented a return to Australia after spending more than 7 years at Newcastle University in the UK where she held Senior Lecturer and Lecturer positions in the Department of Economics and an ESRC/MRC/NIHR Fellowship in the Economics of Health. Emily also previously worked at CHERE at University of Sydney and UTS and at the Federal Department of Health and is a past Vice President of the Australian Health Economics Society.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Tools to value health change in paediatric populations
Li, J. J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Lancsar, E. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/06/24 → 17/07/25
Project: Research
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Tackling obesity: What role for behavioural and standard economics?
Lancsar, E. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
30/06/14 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Social and decision maker preferences for priority setting in health care resource allocation
Lancsar, E. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Bulfone, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Butler, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Donaldson, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Gyrd-Hansen, D. (Chief Investigator (CI))
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/07/13 → 31/05/17
Project: Research
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Behavioural Research - Advanced Exploration of the Mind
Oppewal, H. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Burnett, I. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ciorciari, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cornish, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Crewther, D. P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Dyer, A. G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hunton, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Lancsar, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Thomas, S. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology
6/06/13 → 31/07/14
Project: Research
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Understanding clinicians decisions to offer intravenous thrombolytic treatment to patients with acute ischaemic stroke - a discrete choice experiment
Lancsar, E. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
NIHR - National Institute for Health and Care Research (United Kingdom)
1/06/13 → 31/05/15
Project: Research
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Behavioral responses to healthcare funding decisions and their impact on value for money: evidence from Australia
Ghijben, P., Petrie, D., Zavarsek, S., Chen, G. & Lancsar, E., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Health Economics. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Menu choice stated preference tasks to capture demand complementarity in health
Huynh, E., Swait, J., Lancsar, E. & Ride, J., Mar 2024, In: Social Science & Medicine. 344, 12 p., 116636.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Systematic review of the relative social value of child and adult health
Peasgood, T., Howell, M., Raghunandan, R., Salisbury, A., Sellars, M., Chen, G., Coast, J., Craig, J. C., Devlin, N. J., Howard, K., Lancsar, E., Petrou, S., Ratcliffe, J., Viney, R., Wong, G., Norman, R., Donaldson, C. & on behalf of the Quality of Life in Kids: Key Evidence to Strengthen Decisions in Australia (QUOKKA), Tools for Outcomes Research to Measure, Value Child Health (TORCH) Project Teams, 2024, In: PharmacoEconomics. 42, p. 177-198 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile4 Citations (Scopus) -
Understanding Australian pharmacy degree holders’ job preferences through the lens of motivation-hygiene theory
Thai, T., Lancsar, E., Spinks, J., Freeman, C. & Chen, G., May 2024, In: Social Science & Medicine. 348, 10 p., 116832.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Comparison of a full and partial choice set design in a labeled discrete choice experiment
Thai, T., Bliemer, M., Chen, G., Spinks, J., de New, S. & Lancsar, E., Jun 2023, In: Health Economics. 32, 6, p. 1284-1304 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus)