About
I am a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, Australia. My research focuses on behavioural health economics, stated-preference methods, discrete choice experiments, and the use of experimental and decision-analytic methods to understand how people make healthcare decisions.
My current work examines how patients, the public, clinicians, and policy makers make trade-offs in health and public policy settings. I have a particular interest in preference heterogeneity, information processing, attention, equity, vaccine mandate policies, chronic disease management, and health technology assessment.
Before joining The University of Newcastle, I held research and teaching positions at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, Auburn University, and Duke University.
Research areas
Health economics and policy
Preference evidence for health policy, public health interventions, chronic disease management, and healthcare decision making.
Discrete choice experiments
Design, implementation, econometric analysis, validity, heterogeneity, and methodological development in DCEs.
Behavioural health economics
Information processing, numeracy, attention, dominance, feedback, and decision quality in stated-preference tasks.
Equity and public preferences
Public and patient trade-offs involving equity, distributional concerns, vaccine mandates, and healthcare access.
Selected publications
- Genie MG, Reed SD, Özdemir S. Guidance or Misdirection? Unpacking the Role of Feedback in Health Preference Assessments. Health Economics. 2026;35(6):910–928. doi:10.1002/hec.70093
- Genie MG, Boyes AW, Paolucci F. Feeling lonely? Preferences for support programmes to reduce loneliness among older adults in Australia: A discrete choice experiment. Health Policy. 2026;167:105587. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2026.105587
- Genie MG, Ryan M, Krucien N. Keeping an eye on cost: What can eye tracking tell us about attention to cost information in discrete choice experiments? Health Economics. 2023. doi:10.1002/hec.4658
- Genie MG, Ryan M, Krucien N. To pay or not to pay? Cost information processing in the valuation of publicly funded healthcare. Social Science & Medicine. 2021.
- Genie MG, Krucien N, Ryan M. Weighting or aggregating? Investigating information processing in multi-attribute choices. Health Economics. 2021. doi:10.1002/hec.4245