ProfessorCathy Mihalopoulos

Cathy Mihalopoulos has dual qualifications in Behavioural Science and Health
Economics. She is currently the Chair and Head of Deakin Health Economics at
Deakin University, one of the largest groups of health economists in
Australia. Over the period of 2016-2017 she was the Associate Head of School -
Research, within the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin
University and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Population Research from
2018-2019. Her major field of research interest is the economics of mental
health and psychosocial care, with a special focus on economic evaluation. She
has over 130 publications in this area and has been a named investigator on
grants, tenders and consultancies totalling over $60 million dollars. She has
built many strong and ongoing research collaborations with both national and
international researchers as evidenced by both her grant and publication
record. Eighty percent of her peer-reviewed publications have been published
in Q1 journals. She has a broad range of expertise ranging from the conduct of
economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, broad-based priority-setting
projects and methodological economic evaluation research. Within Deakin Health
Economics, she leads Australia???s largest team of health economists
specialising in the economics of mental health care consisting of staff funded
entirely on research income and postgraduate students. She has been invited to
sit on committees of national and international significance, including the
Economics Sub-Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
(PBAC) and sits on the Executive Committee of the Society for Mental Health
Research. She has also been an invited keynote speaker at numerous national
and international conferences. Her research has attracted awards including a
VicHealth public health award and the Deakin University Population Health
Strategic Research Cluster Award for Research Accomplishment (Mid-Career
Researcher) in both 2011 and 2012 and the School of Health and Social
Development Award for Research Excellence in 2013. In terms of her teaching
credentials, the units she chairs consistently achieve high student
satisfaction ratings and she was instrumental in the development of Deakin
University???s Master of Health Economics.

Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos has dual qualifications in Behavioural Science
and Health Economics. She studied psychology at La Trobe University, economics
at Monash University and completed her PhD in 2012 at the University of
Melbourne. She is Chair and Head of Deakin Health Economics at Deakin
University, one of the largest groups of health economists in Australia. Over
the period of 2016-2017 she was the Associate Head of School - Research,
within the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University and
the Deputy Director of the Centre for Population Research from 2018-2019. Her
major field of research interest is the economics of mental health and
psychosocial care, with a special focus on economic evaluation. She has over
130 publications in this area and has been a named investigator on grants,
tenders and consultancies totalling over $60 million dollars. She has built
many strong and ongoing research collaborations with both national and
international researchers as evidenced by both her grant and publication
record. She has a broad range of expertise ranging from the conduct of
economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, broad-based priority-setting
projects and methodological economic evaluation research. Within Deakin Health
Economics, she leads Australia's largest team of health economists
specialising in the economics of mental health care consisting of staff funded
entirely on research income and postgraduate students. She has been invited
to sit on committees of national and international significance, including the
Economics Sub-Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
(PBAC) and sits on the Executive Committee of the Society for Mental Health
Research. She has also been an invited keynote speaker at numerous national
and international conferences. Her research has attracted awards including a
VicHealth public health award and the Deakin University Population Health
Strategic Research Cluster Award for Research Accomplishment (Mid-Career
Researcher) in both 2011 and 2012 and the School of Health and Social
Development Award for Research Excellence in 2013. In terms of her teaching
credentials, the units she chairs consistently achieve high student
satisfaction ratings and she was instrumental in the development of Deakin
University's Master of Health Economics.