Gavin Mooney

Director of SPHERe and Professor of Health Economics
Telephone: +61 8 9266 4304
email: g.mooney@curtin.edu.au

Gavin has over 25 years experience working in health economics. He was Professor of Health Economics and Director of HERU at the University of Aberdeen, before moving to Australia taking up a position with the University of Sydney in 1994 and then to his current position at Curtin University in Perth. He has experience working with governments and health departments and agencies in many countries - in addition to Australia, he has worked with health organisations in Denmark, New Zealand, Norway and the UK. He has written widely on various aspects of public health economics and has a strong interest in equity, priority setting and the principles underlying public health. He has acted as consultant to the WHO on many occasions and for the OECD twice. Gavin is also visiting Professor to Aarhus University (Denmark) and to the University of Sydney.