Senior Lecturer
Dr Anurag Sharma
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK
PhD (Economics) , ANU, Canberra
MPhil (Economics), IGIDR, Mumbai, India
MA (Economics), University of Rajasthan, India
BSc (Physics, Chemistry, Maths), Maharaja's College, Jaipur, India
Medicine & Health
Public Health & Community Med
I am a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics and Program Director of Masters in Health Leadership and Management (MHLM) at School of Population Health. Previously I worked at Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. I obtained PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, Canberra. My research is mainly focussed on answering policy questions regarding:
- supply and demand side of healthcare management such as modelling hospital choice, tackle overcrowding in Emergency Departments, role of elective surgery waiting times in private hospital utilisation, hospital behaviour under activity based funding, patient safety and workforce development
- health promotion policies and behavioural change: Impact of taxing sugar sweetened beverages on different income groups, body weight and obesity; Impact of alcohol taxation policies on alcohol consumption, pricing strategies to encourage health diet in disadvantaged groups
- public health issues in low income settings: Program evaluation to improve maternal and child health (Nepal), improving nutritional status of children (India), modelling chronic diseases (Mongolia), relationship between poverty and nutrition (India).
My research involves rigorous applied methods using large and complex datasets. I am currently CI and lead health economist on two NHMRC Partnership Grants, one NSW Health COVID19 research grant and have been lead CI on one ARC Discovery grant in the past. I have also worked on several consultancy based research contracts including for OECD.
I have supervised four PhD students to completion (two as main supervisor) and currently supervising four PhD students as primary supervisor.
I am part of the Health Leadership and Management Group at the school and convene one core unit of MHLM (size ~ 250) and one elective unit (size ~ 80) on introductory and advanced health economics respectively. I am also a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK.
Personal Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/anuragunsw/
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anurag_Sharma
Phone
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Location
Rm 238, Level 2, Samuels Building (F25), Kensington Campus
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Awards
Faculty of Medicine Teaching award at UNSW: Award for Educational Excellence (Academic Staff) - 2019
Alan Hodgkinson prize for outstanding contribution to teaching and students learning - 2017
Grants
Category 1
CI and Health Economics lead: NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT1196912 "Community Health workers Extending Care in the Community" (2020-2025). Total Amount: $1,004,341
CI and Health Economics lead: NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT1192469 "Unifying and quality assuring disparate health silos with a common data model." (2020-2023). Total Amount: $735,795
Primary Chief-Investigator (CI A) from 2012-2014: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grant # DP120102252 The Role of taxes and subsidies in promoting health lifestyles: an economic analysis. Total amount $ 300,000: 2012 $110,000 2013 $100,000 and 2014 $90,000. (Co-Investigators: Bruce Hollingsworth, Robin Room, Cathy Burns, Katharina Hauck, Luigi Siciliani and Frank Windmeijer).
Other Grants
Chief Investigator and health economics lead from 2021-22 : NSW Health COVID-19 Research Grant "24/7 eICU Model of Care" . Total Amount: $500,000
Chief Investigator from 2019-2021 : Roberts Co. (NSW) / NSW Government "Well Being of Construction Workers at Concorde Hospital". Total Amount: $272,512
Investigator 2019: Economic Evaluation of HammondCare Darlinghurst: an aged care home for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness
Investigator 2019 : NSW Health "Develop a preferred method to cost the health benefits of active transport". Total Amount: $81,000