DrDan Liu

Dr Dan Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE). Prior to joining CHERE, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of York in the United Kingdom. She has experience working at the World Health Organization (Switzerland) and Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (China). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Italy).

Dr Liu has experience teaching Introductory Health Economics and STATA and supervising PhD students. Her primary research expertise lies in econometric modelling using large-scale patient-level data, and she has also contributed to projects involving economic evaluation. Her research interests include health policy and programme evaluation, competition policy and market structure, cancer care, mental health, digital health and climate change and health.

Dr Liu is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Health Services Research and serves as a Public Officer for the Australian Health Economics Society. She is currently a member of the UTS Low Risk Ethics Committee. Dr Liu was also part of the organising committee for the 2024 Australian Health Economics Society Conference and has served as a peer reviewer for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant scheme.

Dr Liu has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Mobility Programme Award, the WUN Research Development Fund Award, the Distilling Research Impact Award and the Faculty of Health Research Impact Competition Award.