Marion Haas

Biography

Marion is Professor of Health Economics at CHERE. Formerly a physiotherapist, she has a Masters of Public Health (University of Sydney), a Graduate Diploma of Applied Epidemiology (NSW Health) and a PhD (University of Sydney). A leading health services researcher for many years, Marion has extensive policy and research based experience of health services funding and financing in Australia. Her research interests are in the application of economic analysis to policy and practice; planning and evaluating health services; incorporating health economics into health services research, including clinical trials; the application of discrete choice methods to consumer preferences in health; and understanding the impact of health policy on access to, utilisation and costs of health care services. She is currently a chief investigator on a number of major NHMRC grants, and is a leader of the Cancer Research Economics Research Team (CREST) at CHERE. She is Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee at UTS. Marion is a founding member and Vice President of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Research Interest

Undertaking health economics research into and applying the results of economic evaluation to health services; investigating the preferences and behaviour of providers and consumers/patients in relation to health care; and evaluation of health policy in terms of access to, utilisation and costs of health services.