About Us

The Chapter

ISPOR NSW Student and ECR Chapter, established in 2020, provides opportunities for professional development and a platform for knowledge exchange and networking for students and early career researchers (ECRs) in health economics and outcomes research.

It is a registered component chapter of ISPOR and collaborates with other student chapters such as the ISPOR Victoria and Tasmania Student Chapter and the broader ISPOR Australia Chapter.

The Chapter is composed of students and ECRs from Universities across New South Wales.

Our mission is to:

Provide members with opportunities for professional advancement and networking.
Provide a platform where students and ECRs can share and extend their knowledge in health economics and health outcomes research.
Provide a forum for knowledge exchange and interactions between students interested in health economics and members of the pharmaceutical industry, health-related organisations, and academia.
Provide an opportunity for chapter members to become familiar with the affairs of ISPOR as well as have representation in its affairs.

MISSION

Professional advancement
and networking

Knowledge exchange in health economics and health outcomes research

Interaction of students and ECR with the industry, government, academe, and other organisations

Involvement with other ISPOR Chapters and with ISPOR Global

Executive Committee

Akanksha - President and Treasurer

Akanksha is a Research Rellow and PhD candidate at CHERE, University of Technology Sydney. Her PhD research focuses on integrating social outcomes into quality of life measurement. Akanksha completed a Master of Public Health with a Health Economics Research focus from Deakin University and also holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. Her research interests include quality of life measurement, instrument mapping, qualitative research and health technology assessment.

Peiwen Jiang - President-elect

Peiwen is a PhD candidate at the CHERE, University of Technology Sydney and an epidemiologist at NSW Health. Her PhD research focuses on discrete choice experiments, quality of life, and health valuation. In her role as an epidemiologist, she is involved in various research projects on population health and data linkage. Peiwen holds a combined Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Nursing from the University of Sydney, as well as a Master of Science in Health Data Science from UNSW.

Yiting Luo - Secretary

Yiting is a PhD candidate at CHERE, University of Technology Sydney. Before joining CHERE, Yiting completed a Master of Public Health with a specialisation in Biostatistics from Columbia University and worked for two years as an epidemiologist focusing on chronic disease prevention. Her current research focuses on using stated preference methods to understand how people value paediatric health-related quality of life, contributing to the health technology assessments for the paediatric population.

Faculty Advisor

Professor Brendan Mulhern

University of Technology Sydney

Associate Professor Lei Si

Western Sydney University

General Members

Nancy Kim