Marie-Anne Boujaoude

PhD Student

About

Name: Ms Marie-Anne Boujaoude
Email: boujaoudem@student.unimelb.edu.au
Unit: Economics of Global Health and Infectious Diseases Unit, Melbourne Health Economics
School: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Areas of interest

Health equity, Economic evaluation, survey methodology

Biography

Marie-Anne Boujaoude is a PhD student at the Melbourne Health Economics. Her research interests include equity in health and healthcare and economic evaluations. She previously operationalized a checklist to incorporate equity in cost-effectiveness analysis and applied it to childhood vaccines. Marie-Anne’s primarily interests focus on advancing methods for gauging public concern for reducing inequality in health and for the implementation of equity-informative methods of health economic evaluations in the Australian context. Marie-Anne completed her Bachelor and Master’s degrees of Sciences in Biology at the University of Balamand, Lebanon and her Master’s degree in health economics at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Publications

  1. Boujaoude, M.A., Cookson, R., Devlin, N., Dalziel, K., Carvalho, N. Aversion to health inequality between socioeconomic, ethnic, and geographic groups: Evidence from Australia – Manuscript submitted
  2. Blakely, T., Thompson, J., Bablani, L., Andersen, P., Ouakrim, D.A., Carvalho, N., Abraham, P., Boujaoude, M.A., Katar, A., Akpan, E. and Wilson, N. Association of simulated COVID-19 policy responses for social restrictions and lockdowns with health-adjusted life-years and costs in Victoria, Australia. JAMA Health 2021. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1749
  3. Chaaban, J., Boujaoude, M.A., Salti, N. The Macroeconomic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Middle East and North Africa: a Modelling Study – Report 2019
  4. Boujaoude, M.A., Dalziel, K., Mirelman, A., Carvalho, N. Accounting for Equity Considerations in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Systematic Review of Rotavirus Vaccine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Cost-Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2018. doi:10.1186/s12962-018-0102-2
  5. Hawach, V., Boujaoude, M.A., Abdel-Massih, R.M. The Cytotoxic and Anti-Proliferative Activity of High Molecular Weight Pectin and Modified Citrus Pectin. The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease 2016. doi: 10.31989/ffhd.v6i9.270

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

  • Brocher Foundation – Funding to run a workshop in November 2024 at the foundation entitled: Strenghtening International Evidence on Health Inequality Aversion (March 2023)
  • Melbourne Research Scholarship – University fees waiver and stipend for PhD studies from the University of Melbourne – Australia (May 2020)
  • Unibo travel grant – Support to conduct research overseas from the University of Bologna – Italy (December 2016)
  • Unibo Action 2 – Study grant for international students from the University of Bologna – Italy (Received twice: September 2015, September 2016)
  • Unibo Action 1 – Fee waiver for international students from the University of Bologna – Italy (September 2016)