Ery Setiawan

Ery Setiawan is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Menzies School of Health Research, affiliated with Charles Darwin University. His work focuses on public health economics, particularly in Southeast Asia, addressing infectious disease control and health system financing. He collaborates with institutions including the University of Melbourne and Eikjman Oxford Clinical Research Unit in Jakarta.

• Education: BSc in Public Health, MSc in Economics (University of Indonesia)
• Research Themes: Tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, maternal/neonatal health, productivity loss valuation, and cost-effectiveness analysis
• Key Projects: EFFORT trial (malaria radical cure evaluation), HDR Project (health financing)

His recent publications include systematic/scoping reviews analyzing Indonesia's health insurance data for malaria costs (2025), primary health care performance metrics (2025), and productivity loss estimation methods in LMICs (2024). These works intersect public health, economic modeling, and health systems research.

Supervised by Dr Angela Devine, A/Prof Kamala Ley-Thriemer, Dr Natalie Carvalho (University of Melbourne), and Professor Kevin Baird (Eikjman Oxford Clinical Research Unit), he contributes to global health policy frameworks through empirical analyses of health financing mechanisms and disease burden quantification.