Associate Professor Zanfina Ademi joined the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in February 2022 as a Lead Health Economist within the Centre for Medicine Use and Safety. She leads a program of research around prevention of cardiovascular disease, population genomics, epilepsy management and other chronic health conditions. She also leads a program of research on the Productivity Adjusted Life Years (PALYs), which aim to quantify productivity loss at population level and incorporate productivity explicitly in decision making. 

She specialises in Health Technology Assessments (HTAs), economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and clinical registries and decision health economic modelling. She has worked in Australia, Finland and Switzerland, leading funded research projects that have provided evidence on cost-effectiveness and return on investment enabling key decision-makers (governments, payers) to enact effective healthcare funding across the world.

She supervises medical/pharmacy research projects and PhD students. Her collaborations include Monash University (School of Public Health/Central Clinical School), Florey Institute, University of Sydney, University of Western Australia and Curtin University. She also leads an external collaboration with Cambridge University.

Currently, she serves in a number of reputable national and international committees with translational impact, such as the Economics Sub-Committee (ESC) of Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC). 

Previously, Zanfina held a leading position at Monash Outcomes Research and Health Economics (MORE) and was Deputy Director of the Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics (CCRET) in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. 

She has authored >150 peer-reviewed publications, including in the top-ranking journals European Heart Journal, BMJ, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Stroke, Diabetes Care, Hypertension, Value in Health, and PharmacoEconomics. She has also contributed to a book on the Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy - Economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals.

She is passionate about teaching and coordinates several units across Monash.