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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 a Dementia Australia Post-Doctoral Fellowship, focusing on incorporating carer outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of dementia interventions. She has recently been awarded 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 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
Network
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RACEDD: Residential Aged Care - Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis
Ayton, D., Lim, Y. Y., Skouteris, H., Engel, L., Soh, S., Kasza, J., Barbosa Neves, B., Brodtmann, A., Mihalopoulos, C., Ayton, S., Woodward, M. C., Loi, S. M., Goh, A. M. Y., Maruff, P. T., Horsman, P. & Foo, A.
1/03/23 → 1/03/25
Project: Research
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Incorporating informal carers' quality of life in health economic evaluation using the EQ-5D
8/01/23 → 8/01/26
Project: Research
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EQ-5D for proxy assessment of nursing home residents: A systematic review of feasibility and measurement properties
Luo, N., Engel, L. & Cheng, L. J.
1/09/22 → 1/04/23
Project: Research
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Implementing innovative technology promoting self-awareness of brain health and self-determination in obtaining a timely dementia diagnosis
Hutchinson, A. M., Petrovich, T., Macpherson, H. N., Chong, T. W. H., Bucknall, T., Yuen, E., Vasa, R., Redley, B., Mowszowski, L., Villicana, J. R., Orellana, L., Mouzakis, K., Engel, L., Naismith, S. L., Burns , K., Vouliotis, A., Daly, S. & Fraser, T.
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
1/06/22 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
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Author Reply
Brazier, J., Peasgood, T., Mukuria, C., Luo, N., Mulhern, B., Pickard, A. S., Augustovski, F., Greiner, W. & Engel, L., Mar 2023, In: Value in Health. 26, 3, p. 437-440 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
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Developing a New Generic Health and Wellbeing Measure: Psychometric Survey Results for the EQ-HWB
Peasgood, T., Mukuria, C., Brazier, J., Marten, O., Kreimeier, S., Luo, N., Mulhern, B., Greiner, W., Pickard, A. S., Augustovski, F., Engel, L., Gibbons, L., Yang, Z., Monteiro, A. L., Kuharic, M., Belizan, M. & Bjørner, J., Apr 2022, In: Value in Health. 25, 4, p. 525-533 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access11 Citations (Scopus) -
Digital smartphone intervention to recognise and manage early warning signs in schizophrenia to prevent relapse: the EMPOWER feasibility cluster RCT
Gumley, A. I., Bradstreet, S., Ainsworth, J., Allan, S., Alvarez-Jimenez, M., Birchwood, M., Briggs, A., Bucci, S., Cotton, S., Engel, L., French, P., Lederman, R., Lewis, S., Machin, M., MacLennan, G., McLeod, H., McMeekin, N., Mihalopoulos, C., Morton, E., Norrie, J., & 10 others, 2022, In: Health Technology Assessment. 26, 27, p. 1-174 174 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Generation, Selection, and Face Validation of Items for a New Generic Measure of Quality of Life: The EQ-HWB
Carlton, J., Peasgood, T., Mukuria, C., Connell, J., Brazier, J., Ludwig, K., Marten, O., Kreimeier, S., Engel, L., Belizán, M., Yang, Z., Monteiro, A., Kuharic, M., Luo, N., Mulhern, B., Greiner, W., Pickard, S. & Augustovski, F., Apr 2022, In: Value in Health. 25, 4, p. 512-524 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Scopus) -
Heterogeneity of quality of life in young people attending primary mental health services
Cotton, S. M., Hamilton, M. P., Filia, K., Menssink, J. M., Engel, L., Mihalopoulos, C., Rickwood, D., Hetrick, S. E., Parker, A. G., Herrman, H., Telford, N., Hickie, I., McGorry, P. D. & Gao, C. X., 2022, In: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 31, 11 p., e55.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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The 2020 Society for Mental Health Research Team Awards for Impactful Research - Health Services Research
Le, Long Le (Recipient), Lee, Yong Yi (Recipient), Mihalopoulos, Cathy (Recipient), Engel, Lidia (Recipient), Lal, A. (Recipient) & Bucholc, J. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)