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Personal profile
Biography
Dr Lidia Engel is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and an Honorary Fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute. She currently holds an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level 1 Fellowship to enhance the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) framework in older adults, promoting fairer and socially accepted funding decisions for older adults. She previously held a Dementia Australia Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2022-2024), focusing on incorporating carer outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of dementia interventions.
She has a PhD in Health Economics from Simon Fraser University (Canada), a MSc degree in Health Sciences from Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and a BSc degree in Health Economics from the University of Cologne (Germany). She specialised in the measurement and valuation of quality of life and informal care, as well as the economics of mental health and ageing. She has advanced skills in undertaking trial-based and model-based economic evaluation, systematic literature reviews, psychometric validation studies and qualitative research.
She is currently a member of the EuroQol group, a membership officer for the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES), and sits on the scientific advisory committee of Ending Loneliness Together.
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):
Research area keywords
- Health Economics
- Quality Of Life
- Informal care
- Dementia
- Ageing
- Loneliness
- Mental Health
- Disability
- Outcome measurement
- Older adults
- Economic evaluation
- Health preference research
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Responsiveness of the EQ-5D-5L self and proxy ratings in dementia diseases (ReDem)
Michalowsky, B., Buchholz, M., Engel, L. & Xie, F.
1/09/24 → 1/09/25
Project: Research
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Implementation and evaluation of a co-designed exercise program to reduce falls in older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
Said, C. M., Batchelor, F., Callisaya, M., Vogrin, S., Klaic, M., McDonald, C., Ramage, E., Engel, L., Zanker, J., Lim, W., Francis, J., Bicknell, E., Chudecka, A., Brijnath, B. R., Bongiovanni, L., Cursio-Barcham, R., Mastrantuono, D., de Barros Pinheiro, M. & Sherrington, C.
1/02/24 → 31/01/29
Project: Research
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Evaluation of the Chronic Wound Consumables Scheme (CWCS) for People with Diabetes
31/01/24 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Towards a holistic priority setting approach for chronic disease management to tackle loneliness and social isolation in Australia
Mihalopoulos, C., Engel, L., Berk, M., Lim, M. H., Sanci, L. A., Zoungas, S., Skouteris, H., Dow, B., Shields, M., Earnest, A., Hamilton, M., Ayton, D., Le, L., Barker, S., Reavley, N. J., Jennings, G., Birrell, E., Wild, J., Hayes, L. & Kunz, J.
1/09/23 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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Securing high-quality of care for cancer patient at their end-of-life
Aas, E., Hagen, T., Thoresen, L., Forma, L., Jordhøy, M., Michel, Y. A., Engel, L., McCaffrey, N. & Halsteinli, V.
1/07/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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An Australian study evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the Butterfly Foundation Residential Eating Disorders Treatment (B-FREEDT) Model of Care
Le, L. K. D., Mihalopoulos, C., Faller, J., Le, P., Tan, E. J., Engel, L., Chatterton, M. L. & Lee, Y. Y., 1 May 2024, Monash University. 149 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Research
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Assessing the psychometric performance of the EQ-5D-5L among informal caregivers of people with dementia
Sokolova, V., Faller, J., Asfia, S. K. B. M. & Engel, L., Oct 2024, In: Quality of Life Research. 33, 10, p. 2693–2704 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Barriers to and facilitators of user engagement with web-based mental health interventions in young people: a systematic review
Ho, T. Q. A., Le, L. K-D., Engel, L., Le, N., Melvin, G., Le, H. N. D. & Mihalopoulos, C., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Economic evidence for prevention and treatment of eating disorders: An updated systematic review
Faller, J., Perez, J. K., Mihalopoulos, C., Chatterton, M. L., Engel, L., Lee, Y. Y., Le, P. H. & Le, L. K. D., Feb 2024, In: International Journal of Eating Disorders. 57, 2, p. 265-285 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Examining interrater agreement between self-report and proxy-report responses for the quality of life-aged care consumers (QOL-ACC) instrument
Hutchinson, C., Khadka, J., Crocker, M., Lay, K., Milte, R., Whitehirst, D. G. T., Engel, L. & Ratcliffe, J., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 8, 1, 10 p., 28.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
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2020: The 2020 Society for Mental Health Research Team Awards for Impactful Research - Health Services Research
Le, Long (Recipient), Lee, Yong Yi (Recipient), Mihalopoulos, Cathy (Recipient), Engel, Lidia (Recipient), Lal, Anita (Recipient) & Bucholc, Jessica (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)