About
Rakhee Raghunandan is a Lecturer in Health Economics at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data within the Sydney School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health services research, applied health economics, and choice experiments to inform healthcare decision-making, particularly in pediatric populations and pharmacist practice.
Education: BPharm (Pharmacy), Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, MPH (Master of Public Health), and PhD in Pharmacy Practice (University of Otago, New Zealand). Before academia, she worked as a community pharmacist in New Zealand and the UK, and contributed to the NZ Formulary as a clinical editor.
Research Interests:
- Quality of life assessment in children
- Health economics and evaluation
- Choice experiments (discrete choice and best-worst scaling)
- Pharmacist practice research
Her publications emphasize pediatric health state valuation, economic evaluations of healthcare interventions, and deprescribing strategies. Recent work includes developing pediatric quality-of-life instruments and analyzing healthcare disparities in First Nations populations. While no specific awards are mentioned, her contributions to health policy and economics are highlighted through grants and collaborations.
Teaching & Supervision:
- Unit coordinator for Advanced Economic and Decision Analysis (PUBH5317)
- Supervises students in Health Policy Project Capstone Unit (HPOL5009)
- Current advisees: Pauline Maniki (medication adherence interventions) and Savannah RealI (antimicrobial prescribing tools)
Grants:
- BMC collaboration on child neurodevelopment (2024)
- Australian Physical Activity Guideline implementation for traumatic brain injury patients (2024)
She is part of the Leeder Centre team, contributing to data-driven health policy and economic analysis initiatives.