Dennis La

Research Assistant

About

Name: Mr Dennis La
Email: la.d@unimelb.edu.au
Unit: Health Economics and Simulation Modelling for Chronic Disease Unit, Melbourne Health Economics
School: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Areas of Interest

Health Economics, Chronic Diseases

Biography

Dennis is a research assistant in the Health Economics Unit, where he will be assisting in a number of projects involving the economic evaluations of new technologies for diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Dennis is a graduate of the Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne and has worked as a Research Assistant in the OneHealth Unit at The Nossal Institute for Global Health. As part of his master's degree, he undertook a research project that investigated the associations between multimorbidity and out-of-pocket expenditures for medicines in India and China. He has published this work as a first author in the BMJ Global Health.

Publications

  1. La, D. T. V., Zhao, Y., Arokiasamy, P., Atun, R., Mercer, S., Marthias, T., McPake, B., Pati, S., Palladino, R., & Lee, J. T. (2022). Multimorbidity and out-of-pocket expenditure for medicines in China and India. BMJ Glob Health, 7(11). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007724

Awards

  • MSPGH 2022 Teaching Award – Teaching Associate Category