ProfessorCathy Mihalopoulos

Australian Health Economics Society

International Health Economics Association

Recent conferences include:

1. Mihalopoulos. C., (2018) Plenary Chair and Moderator: Investing in mental health reform.World Psychiatric Association 2018, February 25th-28th, Melbourne Convention Centre.

2. Mihalopoulos, C., (2017) Is There a Place for Economics in Mental Health Care? Invited Keynote Address 12th European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation (ENMESH) conference, October 5th-7th, Groningen, Sweden,

3. Mihalopoulos, C., (2017) Priority-Setting in Mental Health Care: Reflections from the Assessing Cost-Effectiveness (ACE) Framework Invited Address in a Pre-Conference Workshop 12th European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation (ENMESH) conference, October 5th-7th, Groningen, Sweden,

4. Mihalopoulos C., (2016) Economic Analysis of CBT, Invited Keynote Address. 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, 22-25 June 2016 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia.

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. 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 Australias 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 Universitys Master of Health Economics.