About Myself

My name is Moin Uddin Ahmed.  I have completed my PhD in Health Economics from Translational Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University, Australia. My doctoral research was focused on the cost aspect of diabetes-related foot disease in New South Wales for my PhD thesis. For this purpose, I used the 45 and Up Study data linked with NSW admitted patient data collection (APDC), emergency department data collection (EDDC), Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS), Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Australian Bureau of Statistics Cause of Death (COD), NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (RBDM) data. 

Currently, I am working as a Senior Health Economist at the University of Sydney. Since joining, I have been working on the quality assessment of existing economic evidence and developing health systems and economic models to inform decision-making about effective, cost-effective, and equitable access to health care for people with eating disorders.  Prior to the role at the University of Sydney, I worked as a Lecturer of Economics at the Institute of Health Economics, the University of Dhaka, from 2013 to 2020. Besides this, I worked as a research associate and independent consultant for a project based at Harvard Kennedy School.  I also worked as a research associate and system analyst with other members of the Institute of Health Economics for the project “Analysis of Investment Case, Use of Pool Fund and Current Local Level Planning for Improvement of Maternal and Child Health Care in Bangladesh” Moreover, I along with my co-researchers managed to have grants for several projects from  IUCN, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, OXFAM etc. I am efficient in operating statistical tools like STATA, R, TreeAge, and LATEX, along with the Microsoft Office package. I am also an expert in MBB (Marginal Budgeting for Bottleneck) tool, and I have used it successfully in the analysis of investment case for improving maternal, neonatal and child health services in the Chittagong and Sylhet districts of Bangladesh. 

I, along with my co-researchers, managed to have grants for several projects from international organisations. I have published thirteen articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to numerous research reports. My research has attracted a multidisciplinary audience, including academics in economics, social sciences, public health, and medicine. I have published in some of the well-regarded journals in these fields, including Psychological Medicine, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, International Wound Journal, Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, Frontiers in Nutrition, BMJ Open, among others. I have also presented his research findings at several national and international conferences. I have also been invited as a speaker in a few forums and conferences. 

Research

My researches are focused on the issues of Health Economics, Big Health Linked Data, Applied Econometrics, and Public Health. I have a keen interest in the economic evaluation of different interventions in the healthcare sector.