Peiwen - President

Peiwen is a Senior Epidemiologist at NSW Health and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).    Her work focuses on population health research and surveillance to support health policy and service planning. Peiwen completed her PhD on discrete choice experiments and health valuation, and previously worked as a Health Economist at UTS.

Jessica - President Elect

Jessica Nikolovski is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the development, design, and implementation of patient-reported measures in routine care settings. She leverages eight years of experience in consumer advocacy to advance meaningful partnerships among consumers, health services, and researchers.

Kadek - Treasurer

Kadek Hendra Darmawan, or Kadek, is a PhD student at Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE). Through his PhD research, Kadek aims to leverage his experience, particularly with the Australian administrative dataset, using recent econometric techniques. His research focuses on the use of medicine and its economic outcomes, combining his previous training as a pharmacist with health economics. Before his PhD, Kadek was a junior health economist working for one of the big pharma companies in his home country, Indonesia.

Tanka - Secretary 

Tanka Prashad Ojha recently graduated with a Master of Health Economics, Management and Policy from the University of Newcastle, where he focused on health systems and policy. He is currently exploring PhD opportunities in Health Economics to strengthen his academic trajectory and deepen his contribution to health policy research. He previously completed a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in Banking and Insurance from Pokhara University, Nepal, and worked as a banker in one of Nepal’s leading commercial banks.

Professor Brendan Mulhern

CHERE, University of Technology Sydney 

Akanksha 

Yiting Luo