Dr Thao Thai is a Research Fellow at the Health Economics Division in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Her research interests fall into three main areas: (1) Health preferences involving the use of stated preference methods such as discrete choice experiments, (2) Outcome measurement including qualitative and quantitative research on the psychometric performance of Health-related Quality of Life instruments, and (3) Economic evaluations and burden of disease. She is currently working on the Indigenous Youth Mental Health project with a focus on outcome measurement in Indigenous settings and economic evaluations of mental healthcare.

Dr Thai holds a PhD degree in Health Economics from Monash University, a Master of Health Economics (Advanced) from the University of Queensland, and a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Prior to her current position, Dr Thai was a Research Fellow at Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University. She is a member of the International Academy of Health Preference Research.