Alison Pearce – President & Public Officer

Dr Alison Pearce is a nationally recognised health economist interested in the various costs of cancer. Her research uses health services research and health economics to find innovative ways to organise and deliver cancer care to address rapidly escalating health system costs while simultaneously ensuring patient-centred care. She leads the Health Economics Stream at the University of Sydney Daffodil Centre (a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW) and is a Senior Lecturer in the Sydney School of Public Health, where she teaches introductory health economics and conducts applied and methodological research in the areas of oncology patient preferences and productivity loss. Her research is reference in cancer control policy documents and clinical practice guidelines in Australia, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, India and by the WHO. She has published over 40 papers and been awarded over $5.1 million in competitive research funding (including MRFF, NHMRC, NBCF, and Australian Academy of Science). Alison’s original training was in occupational therapy, and she remains interested in rehabilitation research, as well as having keen interests in early career researcher development, communicating research to the public, and the use of social media in academia.