Rosalie Viney

Biography

Rosalie Viney is Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney. She has extensive experience in health economics, health services and health policy research. Her research interests include health technology assessment and priority setting, measurement and valuation of quality of life and health outcomes, consumer preferences for health and health care, evaluation of health policy, and the impact of funding arrangements on utilisation and outcomes of health care. Rosalie has undertaken a broad range of commissioned projects for State/Territory Health authorities, and for the Australian Government Department of Health. She is the program leader for the Cancer Australia funded national technical service providing health economics expertise and capacity building to national Cancer Clinical Trials Groups. Rosalie has also had longstanding involvement in the fields of health economics and health services research in Australia, through the Australian Health Economics Society and the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand. Rosalie is a member of the NHMRC Research Committee. Until March 2017 she was also a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) and Chair its Economics Sub-Committee.

Research Interest

Analysis of health insurance, and utilization of health services, valuation of health outcomes, the use of economic evaluation in resource allocation, and measurement of individual's preferences for health care services.