Researcher

Associate Professor Anurag Sharma

Fields of Research (FoR)

Health Economics, Applied Economics, Health Promotion, Public Health and Health Services

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Biography

I am   Associate Professor  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...view more

I am   Associate Professor  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 one NH&MRC Ideas Grant, three 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 and WHO.  

I have supervised five PhD students to completion (three 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 ~ 320) and one elective unit (size ~ 50) on introductory and advanced health economics respectively. I am also a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), UK.

Personal Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/anuragunsw/

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anurag_Sharma

 


My Grants

Category 1

CIC: NH&MRC Ideas Grant # GNT2013323 "Hospital trajectories for 15 million Australians” (2022-2025). Total Amount: $655,934

CI and Health Economics lead: NH&MRC Partnership Grant # GNT2006240 "Developing a model of Preventative Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disability" (2021-2026). Total Amount: $1,244,755

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
 

Other Recent Grants

Chief Investigator from  2023-2024:  UNSW Ageing Futures Institute Seed Grant " Boost 2.0: Boosting inpatient exercise after hip fracture and falls using alternative work force: an implementation evaluation" 

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

 


My Qualifications

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


My 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


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Health Policy: Strategies to reduce Obesity, reduce consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and alcohol,  encouraging health lifestyles

Health Management: Modelling hospital choice, strategies to reduce elective surgery waiting times and ED overcrowding and  patient adverse events, Activity based Funding   

Low income settings: Program evaluation, malnutrition, stunting among children, impacts on poverty and education, gender disparities 

Methods: Health economic analyses, applied economics analysis, large datasets, statistical modelling, economic evaluation, regression analyses, spatial data analysis and similar quantitative methods


Currently supervising

I am currently supervising four PhD students  as primary supervisor on following topics:

Effectiveness of Strategies to improve Health services sustainability in public health systems

What should be the role of  health decision makers in health research to support knowledge translation?

Analyse the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) reimbursement framework in Australia

Hospital Sustainability – Improving value of care through leveraging new technology and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data 

Completed PhD Supervision

1. The relationship between income and alcohol: Implications for public health policy (Main Supervisor)

2. Linkages of HDI Nutrition in a Transient Economy of India (Main Supervisor)

3. Essays on impact evaluation of maternal and child health interventions in Nepal and India (Associate Supervisor)

4.  Economic Implications of Cardiovascular Diseases in Mongolia (Associate Supervisor)


My Engagement


My Teaching

Recent Teaching:

Course Convenor: PHCM9441 - Introduction to Health care Economics and Financial Management (T1, 2020) - Blended Delivery- [Evaluation: 5.77/6]

Course Convenor: PHCM9082 - Advanced Health care Economics and Financial Management (T2, 2020) - Blended Delivery- [Evaluation: 5.57/6]

 

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Location

Rm 238, Level 2, Samuels Building (F25), Kensington Campus

Contact

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