Amir Haddadfar

Name: Amirmohammad (Amir) Haddadfar
Email: amir.haddadfar@student.unimelb.edu.au
Unit: Child Health Economics Unit, Melbourne Health Economics
School: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

PhD Project Title

An Economic Perspective on Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies

Areas of interest

Health Economics, Child Health

Biography

Amir is a PhD student with the Child Health Economics Unit at Melbourne Health Economics, supervised by Professor Kim Dalziel and Dr Li Huang. His research examines the economic impact of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) on children and their families. His work involves assessing the economic burden, measuring quality of life, conducting discrete choice experiments to understand family preferences, and undertaking economic evaluations of emerging interventions for this population.

Publications

1. Haddadfar, A., Emamgholipour, S., Razani, M. et al. Nurses’ job preferences for working in deprived areas in Tehran: a discrete choice experiment. Hum Resour Health 21, 91 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00875-9

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

Melbourne Research Scholarship (MRS), the PhD project is supported and funded by the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies