Udeni De Silva Perera is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE).  She holds a PhD in Applied Econometrics from Monash University and a Masters in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka). Prior to joining CHE she was a Research Fellow attached to the School of Economics Finance and Marketing at RMIT University and Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Colombo.

Her main research interests are in development economics particularly around child and maternal health in developing countries. Other research interests include economic evaluations of health interventions and use of Discrete Choice Experiments in healthcare settings.