Dr Ride is a health economist with a background as a medical doctor and in health policy. She completed her PhD in health economics at Monash University in 2018 and has worked at the University of York and University of Melbourne as Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow before returning to join the Monash University Health Economics Group. Her research focuses on mental health and preferences for healthcare and other goods or services that affect health. At the intersection of these two areas of work is her special interest in the role of mental health and psychological states in choice and decision making. She holds a Discovery Early Career Researcher Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to investigate incentives for employers to invest in workplace mental health. She is a member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee - PICO Advisory Sub-Committee (MSAC PASC), a national body providing advice to government on proposals for funding of medical services and programs. She convenes the Australian Health Economics Society special interest group in the Economics of Mental Health and a community of practice in stated preference methods in health. She applies a diverse set of methods including discrete choice experiments, econometric analysis of observational and linked data, inequality analysis, and economic evaluation.