Maryam Naghsh-Nejad is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) in the Faculty of Health, and a Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn.
An economist working at the intersection of health and labour economics, Maryam leads a research program on the economic consequences of health events; how caregiving, infertility, menopause, cancer and severe health shocks reshape careers, household finances and retirement security. These are costs that rarely appear in health budgets because they fall on workplaces, families and saving balances instead, and her work makes them visible and measurable. Gender equity runs throughout: much of the program focuses on health events that fall disproportionately on women, and on the workplace and policy settings that determine how heavily they land.
Her research combines causal inference methods with Australia's population-scale linked administrative and survey data, including PLIDA, the 45 and Up Study, ALSWH and HILDA.
Maryam's work is published in leading international journals including The Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Social Science & Medicine, and Health Policy.
She is a Chief Investigator on projects funded by the Australian Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, the Digital Health CRC and Movember, and works in partnership with industry and government.
Before joining UTS in 2018, Maryam was a Senior Research Associate at IZA in Bonn, where she was Deputy Director of the Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (GLM-LIC) programme, collaborating with academic institutions and policymakers internationally. She holds a PhD in Economics from West Virginia University.
