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Marian Shanahan is an experienced health economist and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Dr. Shanahan completed her PhD project focused on evaluating the costs and benefits of cannabis policies, which included substantial cost-benefit analyses, a contingent valuation study, and discrete choice experiments. Throughout her career, she has applied health economics principles to analyze various diseases and structural issues within the health sector, often working with large linked data sets. Her work encompasses assessing hospital efficiency and the introduction of new technologies, as well as evaluating the economic costs associated with treatment and health service utilization of heroin users. Additionally, she has been involved in economic evaluations of high-risk antenatal care related to in vitro fertilization projects. Dr. Shanahan is currently a member of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) team, where her research interests include assessing the costs and benefits of policies related to heroin and cannabis, using discrete choice experiments to explore societal preferences for drug policies, and evaluating the costs and outcomes of police diversion programs for cannabis.
University of New South Wales • Randwick, Australia
Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, focusing on health economics.
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