Kirsten Howard is Co-Director of the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data and Professor of Health Economics in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.
Her research focuses on methodological and applied health economics approaches and how these can inform decision-making at an individual and policy level.
With more than 30 years experience in health economics and health policy research, she has a focus on patient, consumer and public preferences for health and healthcare using choice-based methods, health technology decision making, and QOL/wellbeing measurement and economic evaluation.
She has worked in diverse public health areas such as cancer screening, falls prevention, chronic kidney disease, organ donation and allocation policy, child quality of life measurement and in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing.
She co-leads the What Matters 2 Adults (WM2A) and What Matters 2 Youth (WM2Y) projects to develop new preference-based wellbeing measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults and youth.
Kirsten is also Chair of the Economics Sub Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) and a PBAC member.