Dr. Matthew Hamilton

Biography

Mr. Hamilton is an economist with decades of experience in assessing, building, and communicating investment cases for health education programs. In 2013, Mr. Hamilton focused on becoming a health economist with emphasis on program evaluation, policy analysis, and strategic foresight. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Health Economics Group at Monash University. From 2015 to 2023, he was a Senior Policy Analyst leading the Health Economics Workstream at Orygen. Prior to that, he was associated with the Centre for Health Economics at the University of Manchester from 2013 to 2015. Mr. Hamilton’s economic research specializes in developing and applying transferable health economic models to explore policy and health service system design topics. He has also developed a novel software framework called ready4. Before dedicating his career to health economics, he worked in various policy and strategy roles across Australia, Ireland, Central America, and the Eastern Caribbean. He is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University and holds an MSc in Health Economics from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a BBS in Accounting and Economics from the University of Limerick. His expertise aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in research areas related to mental health modeling and simulation.

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