Nabil Husni

PhD Student

About

Name: Mr Nabil Husni
Email: nabil.ahmadhusni@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

Productivity Loss, Cost of Exclusion & Marginalization in Asia Pacific

Biography

Nabil is a PhD candidate in the Economics of Global Health and Infectious Diseases Unit, at Melbourne Health Economics, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he has worked in data analytics and digital transformation across the social, healthcare, and education sectors in Malaysia and the United States.

Nabil’s research interests include productivity loss and the economic costs of exclusion and marginalisation, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. His current research aims to integrate productivity losses among children into economic evaluation and assess the wider implications of methodological choices for productivity losses on equity. Nabil has an MPH in Health Systems & Policy from Rutgers School of Public Health and a BA in Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Publications

  1. Jani, C., Tran, E., Jaeger, E., Dong, J., Husni, N., Stoppler, M., Hockenberry, A., Mercer, J., Pal, S., Agarwal, N., Choueiri, T., Rose, B., Bagrodia, A., & McKay, R. (2026). Concurrent tissue and circulating tumor DNA analysis in renal cell carcinoma: insights from a multimodal database. The Oncologist, Volume 31, Issue 5, May 2026, oyag123.   https://doi.org/10.1093/oncolo/oyag123
  2. Tan, K.H., Husni, N.B., Liow, J.W., Keng, S.L., Shamsudin, A.H., & Sulathireh, T. (2025). Sexuality and Gender Change Efforts in Malaysia - Proximal Stressors and Mental Ill-Health Amongst LGBT+ Adults. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 27(8), 1054-1069. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2024.2424225

Honours, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Entrepreneurial Fellow, I-Corps Northeast Region, USA
  • Guinevere E. Miller Scholarship, Rutgers School of Public Health, USA
  • Digital Health Fellow, MRANTI, Malaysia
  • Summer Research Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA