44^th Annual AHES Conference

Professor Denzil G. Fiebig

Denzil has been a Professor in the School of Economics, UNSW Business School since 2001 and previously held a chair in econometrics at the University of Sydney. In 2003 Denzil was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts 2014-17, President of AHES 2005-10, on the Executive Board of iHEA 2014-17, chaired the iHEA Scientific Committee 2016-19 and is on the Scientific Committee of the Asian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at UTS and the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University and on the editorial boards of The Economic Record and Social Science and Medicine. Denzil has won numerous teaching awards including a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016.

Denzil's main research area is econometrics with an emphasis on applications in health economics. Associated publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Marketing Science, Journal Health Economics, Health Economics and Social Science and Medicine.

Professor Jo Coast

Professor Joanna Coast has been an academic health economist for over 30 years.  She is Professor in the Economics of Health & Care at the University of Bristol, where she also co-directs the MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy Analysis.  She is Senior Editor, Health Economics for Social Science & Medicine, and a non-executive director of the One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System.  Jo’s key research focus is on issues of resource allocation in health service provision.  Her interests lie in the theories underlying economic evaluation; the measurement of capability outcomes for health, wellbeing, and care interventions across the life course; priority setting; end-of-life care and the economics of antimicrobial resistance.  She also has a methodological interest in the use of qualitative methods in health economics.  She has published extensively across these research areas and received major grants from the Medical Research Council, the European Research Council and Wellcome.