Zanfina Ademi has over the last fifteen years developed a professional focus on research and teaching in the field of health services research and translational research, including economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and clinical registries, chronic disease modelling, health technology assessments and decision analytic modelling for economic evaluations, across a number of universities worldwide, including in Australia, Finland and Switzerland.

She completed a Pharmacy degree (MPharm) at the Tirana University School of Medicine, Albania, a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at the University of Eastern Finland, and her PhD at Monash University, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Australia.

She has completed a number of funded research projects that have had direct links to policy and practice. Her research focuses on improving population health and assessing the implications of new and current health technologies in terms of their outcomes and costs, performance characteristics and implications for society and funding. She is also a Unit co-ordinator for MPH5272: Principles of Health System.