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Lisa Gold

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Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation
  • +61 3 925 17356 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Research lead, economics of maternal and child health, Deakin Health Economics at the Institute for Health Transformation and School of Health and Social Development.

Professor Lisa Gold leads research in the economics of maternal and child health at Deakin Health Economics. Lisa is an economist with particular expertise in the economic evaluation of health and social interventions that aim to improve population health and reduce health inequalities for Australia's children and their families.

Over the last twenty-plus years, Lisa has designed and successfully conducted a large number of economic evaluations in public health related issues as well as systematic reviews of evidence and methodological development in economic evaluation. Lisa is currently providing the economic input to evaluations of a range of public health interventions in maternal and child health, including trials of potential health- and welfare-improving interventions for midwifery care and support, family violence prevention, management of childhood wheeze, and language development support in primary school-aged children. The economic research in these studies involves assessing both the investment required by the intervention (in terms of time and resources devoted by participants, health/education providers and communities) and the values held by children, parents, providers and the general public for the outcomes of the intervention.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Professor
    Deakin University, School of Health and Social Development

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    La Trobe University
  • Master of Science
    University of Oxford

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Health economics
  • Public health
  • Health services and systems
  • Clinical sciences
  • Paediatrics
  • Midwifery
  • Epidemiology

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Health and Social Development

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Institute for Health Transformation

RESEARCH STRENGTHS