Dr Xinyang Hua is the winner of the 2020 Premier's Award for Health and Medical Research in Health Service category

Dr Xinyang Hua, our recent PhD graduate from the Health Economics Unit, Centre for Health Policy is the winner of the 2020 Premier's Award for Health and Medical Research in Health Service category, in recognition of her exceptional contribution in her PhD research. Her PhD study*, under the primary supervision of Prof Philip Clark, have filled important evidence based gaps in health economics and health service research and have had an international focus. The study on expenditure and prices of antihyperglycemic medications in the US was published in JAMA.

After finished her PhD, Xinyang has worked 2 years as Researcher in Health Economics at the University of Oxford. She has now come back to Australia and re-joined the Health Economics Unit as a Research Fellow.

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