Our people

Our people

Governance

Our team consists of the Director, Prof Henry Cutler, who leads a dedicated team of several research fellows. ​

​MUCHE operates within the broader organisational structure of the Macquarie Business School (MQBS), but is governed by the Director, Prof Henry Cutler, who reports directly to the Executive Dean of MQBS.

We are supported by central university offices, including Marketing and Events, Public Relations, Human Resources, Research, and the Office of General Council. We have access to the full suite of university resources, including access to library services, electronic academic journals, specialist software and equipment.

Centre Director

Professor Henry Cutler

Henry is the inaugural director of the Centre. Prior to joining MUCHE, Henry led the health economics team at KPMG, and was head of Sydney Health Economics and Social Policy Team for Access Economics.  He also worked as a senior economic consultant at the Centre for Internal Economics for five years, and spent eight years in the debt, equity and derivative markets, both in Australia and the UK.​


Research team

Core TeamName Research Interests
 

Professor Henry Cutler
Centre Director

Phone: +612 9850 2998
Email: henry.cutler@mq.edu.au

  • Mental health
  • Aged care
  • Competition & choice
  • Health care funding models
  • Policy analysis
  Professor Martin Hoyle
Professor of Health Innovation & Evaluation

Phone: +612 9850 6021
Email: martin.hoyle@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Economic evaluation methodology, especially survival analysis
  • UK NICE, and Australian PBAC and MSAC submissions
 

Associate Professor Bonny Parkinson
Interim Deputy Director

Phone: +612 9850 2486
Email: bonny.parkinson@mq.edu.au

  • Pharmaceutical policy
  • Economic evaluations of health technology
  • Precision medicine
 

Associate Professor Yuanyuan Gu
Senior Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 4619
Email: yuanyuan.gu@mq.edu.au

  • Health economics
  • Choice modelling
  • Economics of ageing and aged care
 Associate Professor Jonas Fooken
Senior Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 8088
Email: jonas.fooken@mq.edu.au
  • Mental health
  • Ageing
  • Behavioural economics and health
  Dr Olukorede Abiona
Senior Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2930
Email: olukorede.abiona@mq.edu.au
  • Policy evaluation (applied econometrics)
  • Development of health economics
  • Health systems performance

​Dr Anam Bilgrami​
Senior Research Fellow


Phone: +612 9850 2938
Email: anam.bilgrami@mq.edu.au

  • Policy evaluation and causal analyses
  • Ageing and aged care
  • Mental health
  Dr Varinder Jeet
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 1412
Email: varinder.jeet@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Health economics
  • Cancer studies
  • Clinical genomics
  • Health services utilisation and policy
Ms Alicia Norman
Research Fellow



Phone: +612 9850 2913
Email: alicia.norman@mq.edu.au
  • Economic modelling
  • Health technology assessment
  • Precision medicine
  Ms Rachel Song
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2904
Email: rachel.song@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Economic evaluation of health care interventions
  • Economic modelling
  Ms Mona Aghdaee
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 1836
Email: mona.aghdaee@mq.edu.au
  • Health outcome research
  • Health policy evaluation
  • Healthcare expenditure and financing
 Dr Rajan Sharma
Research Fellow



Phone: +612 9850 4768
Email: rajan.sharma@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Economic modelling of healthcare interventions
  • Hearing health
  • Health outcomes
  Dr Rezwanul Rana
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2997
Email: rezwanul.rana@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Healthcare expenditure
  • Healthcare-seeking behaviour
  • Inequality in healthcare access
  • Utilisation in developed and developing countries
Dandan  Dr Dandan Yu
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2999
Email: dandan.yu@mq.edu.au
  • Policy evaluation
  • Health economics
  • Applied econometrics
Shari Stathis Ms Shari Stathis
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2999
Email: shari.stathis@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Economic evaluation
  • Australian PBAC and MSAC submissions
 Dr Smriti Raichand
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2999
Email: smriti.raichand@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Systematic reviews
  • Economics of ageing and aged care
Ali Kalay profile photo Ali Furkan Kalay
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2999
Email: alifurkan.kalay@mq.edu.au
  • Economic modelling and welfare analysis
  • Health economics
  • Network econometrics
Dr Rubana Islam profile photo Dr Rubana Islam
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2999
Email: rubana.islam@mq.edu.au
  • Health technology assessment
  • Health economic evaluation
  • Evidence synthesis
Dr Fatima Jamal Khan profile photo Dr Fatima Jamal Khan
Research Fellow

Phone: +612 9850 2999
Email: fatimajamal.khan@mq.edu.au
  • Policy evaluation (applied econometrics)
  • Behavioural and health economics
  • Economics of ageing and aged care

Honorary and Visiting appointments

A/Prof Kompal Sinha


Phone: +612 9850 6069
kompal.sinha@mq.edu.au
  • Health economics
  • Applied econometrics
  • Development economics
Dr. David Cullen
Adjunct Professor
  • Aged care financing
  • Hospital pricing and utilisation
  • Policy evaluation
Sean Lybrand  Mr Sean Lybrand
Adjunct Fellow
  • Health policy
  • Health technology assessment
  • Health systems strengthening
  • Chronic disease outcomes
  Dr Mutsa Mutowo
Adjunct Fellow
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Integrated care
  • Program evaluation
  • Health technology assessment
  • Economic evaluation of health care interventions
Nils Gutacker 

Prof Nils Gutacker
Visiting Professor

  • Design of healthcare markets
  • Health equity and health inequalities
  • Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)
Dr Megan Gu
Honorary Research Fellow
  • Health care utilization
  • Retirement and Ageing
  • Policy evaluation
Marco A/Prof Marco Bertoni
Visiting Associate Professor
  • Health economics
  • Economics of aging
  • Labor economics
  • Economics of education

PhD students

 

Ms Quinfei Chen
PhD Student

  • Health technology assessment
  • Choice modelling
 

Ms Maggie Lee
PhD Student

  • Mental health
  • Digital health and health informatics
  • Private health insurance
 

Mr Zachery Tirrell
PhD Student

  • Health technology assessment
 

Zobaida Ahmed Piu
PhD Student

  • Choice modelling
  • Reproductive health
  • Pharmacoeconomics
  • Ms Noura Saba
    PhD Student

    • Choice modelling
    • Mental health
    • Econometrics
     

    Ms Meimei Chen
    PhD Student

    • Health economics
    • Survival analysis
    Han Cheng 

    Mr Han Cheng
    PhD Student

    • Econometrics
    • Choice modelling
    • Health economics

    Professional staff

    ​ Ashley Soytemiz

    ​Ms Ashley Soytemiz​
    Centre Manager​

    Phone: +612 9850 2999​
    Email: ashley.soytemiz@mq.edu.au​

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