Dr Anita Lal is a Senior Research Fellow, Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University, who holds a PhD, Master of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Economics. Her PhD, conferred in 2018, examined ways of operationalising equity into cost-effectiveness analysis. Anita has since built a research program in equity and economic evaluation with the aim of guiding the development of new, health-related policies and programs that endeavour to reduce inequities in healthcare utilisation, and the distribution of cancers across Australia.
In 2019, she was awarded a Dean’s Research Post-Doctoral fellowship which focused on the equity of healthcare utilisation of bowel cancer patients and the long-term benefits for lower socioeconomic groups by improving bowel screening participation in South Australia.
Anita was awarded a Victorian Cancer Agency Early Career Research Fellowship in 2021 to examine the equity impacts and cost-effectiveness of targeted programs to increase bowel, breast and cervical cancer screening in under-screened ethnic groups in Victoria.
Anita is a member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and the International Health Economics Association equity special interest groups and also Co-convenor of the Health Equity special interest group with the Australian Health Economics Society.
