Continuing Senior Lecturer in Health Economics
The University of Newcastle, Australia · 2026-present
Newcastle Business School.
About
Dr Mesfin Genie
Continuing Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, Australia.
Biography
Dr Mesfin Genie is a Continuing Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, Australia. His research examines how patients and the public value healthcare, how they process information when making health decisions, and how they respond to health policy. He combines health economics and behavioural economics with discrete choice experiments, eye tracking, health measurement, and decision-support tools.
He received his PhD in Economics from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where he used stated-preference methods to study healthcare decision-making. He earned an MSc in Health Economics and Management from the University of Bologna in 2015, an MSc in Economics from Addis Ababa University, and a BA in Economics from Jimma University. He has held research and teaching positions at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, the Harrison School of Pharmacy at Auburn University, and the School of Medicine at Duke University.
His applied work spans organ transplantation, diabetes, prostate cancer, dementia, loneliness, telemedicine, medical devices, the health workforce, vaccines and vaccine mandates, and broader public-health interventions. International collaborations include work on equity and efficiency in value-based preference assessment, feedback and choice behaviour in heart-failure device decisions, pandemic-related attitudes and trade-offs, and eye-tracking studies of attribute ordering in multi-attribute choice.
Research focus
- Patient preferences and behavioural economics. Discrete choice experiments across a wide range of health conditions and interventions, with attention to preference heterogeneity, equity, and value.
- Information processing in healthcare decisions. Integrating eye-tracking measures with discrete choice experiments to study attention, information acquisition, and multi-attribute choice.
- Health measurement, clinical outcomes, and policy evaluation. Ensuring that health policies, technologies, and interventions reflect outcomes that patients and the public actually value.
Career timeline
Lecturer in Health Economics
The University of Newcastle, Australia · 2023-2025
Newcastle Business School.
Health Measurement and Regulatory Science Fellow
Duke University, United States · 2023-2024
School of Medicine (concurrent).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Auburn University, United States · 2022-2023
Harrison School of Pharmacy.
Research Fellow
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom · 2020-2022
Health Economics Research Unit.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy · 2019-2020
Department of Economics.
Selected academic service
Guest Editor for Health Policy and Technology. Reviewer for journals including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Value in Health, Social Science & Medicine, the Journal of Choice Modelling, Theory and Decision, and BMJ Open.
Research expertise
Eye trackingBehavioural economicsClinical outcomes assessmentDiscrete choice experimentsHealth-preference researchHealth economicsStated-preference methodsPublic-health policyDecision-support tools
Prospective students
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD and MPhil students interested in health economics, discrete choice experiments, eye-tracking methods, clinical outcomes assessment, behavioural economics, and related areas. If you would like to discuss supervision, please send a CV that sets out your academic qualifications, your GPA or grading information, any research experience, and publications where applicable, together with a short note on the questions you would like to work on. I take on a small number of students and look for a clear fit between your interests and my current projects.