Dr Tiara Marthias
Senior Lecturer in Global Health
Research Focus: Maternal health; Child health; Health financing
Tiara is a health systems researcher focused on health equity and equitable access to quality health services, with particular interests spanning RMNCH, health financing and evidence-based budgeting, and primary health care.
Before joining the Nossal Institute, Tiara was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. She has contributed to the development of national RMNCH financing policy and was the lead consultant for the development of Indonesia's national strategy for adolescent wellbeing, working closely with senior government policymakers on health programme planning and evaluation.
Tiara has also worked with the government and organisations in Timor Leste, Myanmar, and the Philippines on health systems and financing projects. She has been part of the development team of several international-level courses, including on health systems strengthening for LMICs and a global perspective course on COVID-19.
Tiara served on the Board of Directors of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) as Early Career Researcher Director (2022–2025) and was named an Equity Initiative Fellow (Southeast Asia) in 2018 under the Oxford-based Atlantic Fellowship.
Born and raised in Indonesia, Tiara trained as a medical doctor at Gadjah Mada University (2008) and completed her Master of Public Health (2011) and PhD (2021) at the University of Melbourne.