Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Higher Degree Research Students/Profiles

Lisa Gold

Lisa Gold has an MA (Economics, Cambridge) and MSc (Economics for Development, Oxford) and in 2003 is taking up an NHMRC Public Health Postgraduate Scholarship to complete her PhD on the economic evaluation of new public health interventions. Lisa has spent the last two years at the Centre for the Study of Mothers‚ and Children’s Health at La Trobe University, conducting an economic ecological evaluation of a community randomised trial known as PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers). Lisa's PhD research uses the case study of the economic evaluation of PRISM to assess the capability of economic evaluation techniques when applied to the range of professional and community contexts involved in a public health intervention such as PRISM. This research will inform debates over the potential bias of evidence-based medicine against new public health interventions. Research findings will illustrate strengths and weaknesses of current economic evaluation techniques and prioritise areas for future methodological development.