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 and serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Ending Loneliness Together. She previously held the role of Membership Officer for the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES). 

Dr Engel is currently co-leading the Connecting for Better Health (C4BH) project, providing decision-makers with the knowledge and tools to successfully implement acceptable, targeted, equitable and cost-effective strategies for tackling loneliness and social isolation as part of a more holistic approach to chronic disease management in Australia.