Dr Stephen Jan
Health Economist
B.Ec., M.Ec., Ph.D
Stephen Jan is a health economist with 15 years experience and a track record of research in broad ranging areas including economic evaluation, equity and health, indigenous health, survey methods (including discrete choice experiments), health in lower and middle income countries and health policy. He was appointed as the Senior Health Economist at the George Institute in 2005. His previous appointments have been at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, Sydney. He was recently awarded a NHMRC Career Development Award for 2007-2011.
He has published widely including two textbooks on health economics, various book chapters and publications in high impact journals such as the Lancet, BMJ, Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Bulletin of the WHO and MJA. Throughout his career, he has been active in promoting wider dissemination of his research and in influencing policy. He has been an adviser to the World Health Organisation, the Chinese Ministry of Health, the UK Department for International Development; and in Australia, to non-government organisations such as the Aboriginal and Medical Service Alliance in the Northern Territory and to health departments at State and Commonwealth level. He is presently a member of the Economics Sub-Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and the Population Health Priority Taskforce, NSW Department of Health.