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I study how patients and the public value healthcare, how they process information when making decisions, and how they respond to policy. My work combines health and behavioural economics with discrete choice experiments, eye tracking, and decision-support tools.

Research themes

Health preferences and behavioural economics

Measuring what people value in health, and how real decisions depart from standard models. Explore

Information processing, attention, and eye tracking

Bringing process evidence into preference measurement to see how people actually read a choice. Explore

Health measurement, outcomes, and policy evaluation

Ensuring that policies, technologies, and tools reflect outcomes that patients and the public value. Explore

Selected projects

  • MandEval, effectiveness and consequences of Australia's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
  • FETP India business case, scaling field-epidemiology training, with the World Bank.
  • Eye tracking and attribute ordering in multi-attribute choice.

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Dr Mesfin Genie

Continuing Senior Lecturer in Health Economics
Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, Australia

mesfin.genie@newcastle.edu.au

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