Jinhu Li
Senior Research Fellow Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society & National Centre for Health Workforce Studies Australian National University My research profiles Google Scholar ORCID RePEc |
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I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society, and the National Centre for Health Workforce Studies at the Australian National University. Previously I worked as a Senior Lecturer in economics at Deakin University and a Senior Research Fellow in health economics at the University of Melbourne. From 2017 to 2023 I was an Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow. I obtained my PhD in economics from McMaster University in Canada. My research fields of interest are health economics, economics of education, and development economics. My main research areas include social determinants of health and human capital, and the economics of the health workforce. My expertise lies in using causal inference methods and Discrete Choice Experiments to address important empirical issues in health, education and development. I have published in leading field journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Health Economics, and Social Science and Medicine. I have attracted over $4.2 million of research funding, with $3.8 million awarded from Category 1 national competitive grant schemes from the ARC and the Medical Research Future Funds (MRFF). I am the leading Chief Investigator for an ARC DECRA project and an ARC Discovery Project, and a key Chief Investigator for an MRFF Primary Health Care Research grant. I have worked on projects investigating the causal effect of parental education on offspring health, cognitive and non-cognitive abilities, the effects of early-life shocks and public investments on later-life health and human capital outcomes, the effects of incentives and market structure in the health care markets on the behaviours of healthcare providers, and the effects of physician behaviours and models of care on population health outcomes. My ongoing projects examine the impacts of counter-COVID public policies such as school closures on child development, and the optimal workforce mix for team-based care in managing chronic diseases. |
Recent News
January 2025- my joint work with Douglas Kazibwe, "Universal Secondary Education, Schooling and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Uganda" in now published at the Journal of Development Economics.
June 2024- Our multi-disciplinary and multi-institution team have won an MRFF 2023 Primary Health Care Research Grant to evaluate the needs of consumers and healthcare providers to understand the optimal workforce mix and identify better ways to incentivise team based care. This is a three year project from 2024-2027.
October 2023- I am awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant with colleagues on "Counter-COVID public policies and the impacts on Australian children." This is a three year project from 2024-2027.
June 2024- Our multi-disciplinary and multi-institution team have won an MRFF 2023 Primary Health Care Research Grant to evaluate the needs of consumers and healthcare providers to understand the optimal workforce mix and identify better ways to incentivise team based care. This is a three year project from 2024-2027.
October 2023- I am awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant with colleagues on "Counter-COVID public policies and the impacts on Australian children." This is a three year project from 2024-2027.