CHP PhD Completion Seminar - The social value of avoiding poor health states in children - Ashwini Priyangika De Silva
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Ashwini Priyangika De Silva
Bio: Ashwini is a PhD student with the Child Health Economics Unit. Under the supervision of Dr Tianxin Pan, Dr Tessa Peasgood, Professor Nancy Devlin, Professor Kim Dalziel and Professor Richard Norman, Ashwini’s PhD titled “The social value of avoiding poor health states in children” focuses on anchoring child-preference-based measures onto the QALY scale and weighting child and adult QALY gains. Her research will employ both quantitative and qualitative methods to advance the development of approaches for eliciting social values for child health states and will contribute to the validation and development of child health-related quality of life measures, ensuring they are robust and appropriate.
Ashwini completed her Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Business Economics (Honours) through the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and her background spans across health economics, microeconomics, and statistics. Ashwini's primary research interests focus on child health economics and development and valuation of child health-related quality of life instruments.
Seminar Abstract: Children are important users of healthcare, yet uncertainty remains regarding the appropriate methods for valuing children’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This thesis comprises a series of studies examining methodological challenges in child health valuation, including whose preferences are most relevant, the use of different preference elicitation and anchoring methods, and the valuation of severe health states. It also explores whether health gains in children are valued differently from those in adults. Using mixed methods, this research contributes to improving the valuation of child HRQoL to better support economic evaluation of pediatric interventions.
Supervisors: Primary Supervisor, Dr Tianxin Pan
Co-supervisor, Dr Tessa Peasgood
Co-supervisor, Professor Nancy Devlin
Co-supervisor, Professor Kim Dalziel
Co-supervisor, Professor Richard Norman
Location: MSPGH, Seminar Room 515, L5, 207 Bouverie Street, CARLTON VIC 3053 or via Zoom Password: 289614