Katharina MD Merollini Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

Katharina MD Merollini

Dr Katharina Merollini has been appointed a Lecturer in Health Economics in 2022 and is part of the School of Health (Public Health discipline) and the Sunshine Coast Health Institute at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. She completed a Research Fellowship at UniSC in health economics from 2016-2022. Prior to this she worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Katharina’s research interests are health services research and health economic evaluations with the goals to inform decision-makers and improve health service delivery and patient outcomes. She has a special interest in cancer economics, in particular cancer survivorship outcomes. Katharina has successfully supervised numerous PhD students and serves as a reviewer and guest editor to a number of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. Katharina teaches research methods and health economic evaluations and passing on her passion for these areas to the next generation.