Dr Evelyn Lee
Sydney School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Evelyn (BA (Econs) MEc (Econs) PhD (Econs) is a health economist and research fellow at the Leeder Centre for Health policy, Economics and Data. She completed her PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). Her expertise is in leveraging large scale linked dataset to evaluate healthcare and societal costs as well as developing simulation models to assess the impact - cost, and equity of different combinations of policies and interventions in a virtual world before they are applied to the real-world settings. Her work has been published in high impact journals, including JAMA Pediatrics (first author), Genetics in Medicine (first author) and The Lancet (co-author).
- Economic modelling of population-based screening
- Economic evaluation methods
Teaching: ECON 1031 Quantitative Methods in Economics, Business and Finance
Current students:
- Aggarwal A. Evaluating the impact on children of parents with a mental illness
- To, H.Long-term outcomes of preterm infants cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit
- Ong, N. Economic burden of Australian infants born pre-term and the impact of inhaled nitric oxide.
- Soenong, H. Burden of paediatric respiratory syncytial virus disease and potential impact of different vaccine strategies in NSW
- 2022-2025: Lungs for life. Virtual ward to improve outcomes of infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) MRFF Grant ($1,9M), CI (Lead, economic outcome using data linkage)
- 2021: Evidence check: Substance use during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period, NSW Sax Institute ($40,000), (Lead, review of economic evidence)
- 2022-2024. Macquarie University Research Fellowship. Recipient.
- 2021: Application of Artificial Intelligence for mental healthcare: Proof of concept study.MQBS Grant Accelerator Scheme ($10,000) Lead CI.
- 2019-2023: Expanding Access to Addiction Medicine Specialists care in Non-Metropolitan Regions of NSW: The Hub Project Evaluation: NSW Translational Research Grants Scheme (TRGS) ($503,724), CI (Lead, economic outcome of Hub project)
- 2024- Present: (invited) Grant Assessment Review Committee, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
- 2024- Present: Council member, Economic Society of Australia (NSW Branch) https://esansw.org.au/content/733/meet-your-nsw-councillors
- 2024- Present: Committee Member-NSW Health: NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee (NSW PHSREC)https://www.cancer.nsw.gov.au/research-and-data/nsw-population-health-services-research-ethics-com/committee-members
- 2023- Present: Associate Editor for Addiction (Impact factor, IF: 6.1)
- 2022- Present: Editor Board Member for Scientific Reports (IF 4.997)
- 2024- Present: Editor for Paediatrics and Child Health (IF: 2.5)
- 2024: University of York (UK). Visiting Scholar.
- 2022-2024. Macquarie University Research Fellowship. Recipient.
- 2017: Best Oral Presentation. 7th Congress of the Asian Pacific Inititive Reproductive Conference