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Professor Julie Ratcliffe is a Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor of Health Economics at Flinders University's College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She holds an Honorary Professorial appointment at the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research and currently holds an NHMRC Leadership Fellowship (2025-2029). She has extensive academic experience, previously holding roles at Brunel University, the University of Sheffield, and the University of South Australia. With over 425 research outputs and 55 h-index, her work focuses on economic evaluation, health outcomes measurement, and patient preferences in healthcare. She has led major grants including ARC and NHMRC-funded projects in aged care and adolescent quality of life valuation.
Her research interests include health and quality of life measurement, economic evaluation across health/social care sectors, and patient-centered preferences. Notable projects include developing quality of life measures for aged care (QOL-ACC) and the iSupport dementia program. She co-authored the influential textbook Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation (Oxford UP, 2017).
Recent publications (2023-2025) address topics like aged care quality assessment, dementia caregiver support, economic evaluation methods, and pandemic-era wellbeing economy preferences. Key awards include her NHMRC Fellowship and Matthew Flinders Fellowship. She supervises students in health economics and policy, with completed supervision in Health Economics (13 students), Health Services Research (1), and Public Health (1).
Collaborations span Australia, China, and the UK, focusing on dementia care, aged care policy, and Indigenous health initiatives. She leads the Caring Futures Institute and contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health equity and aging.
