Dr. Philip Haywood is a health economist and physician, who joined the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data in November 2023. His diverse career spans academia, clinical practice, and policy development, research and evaluation. He led on health system resilience at the OECD during the COVID pandemic, engaging with national governments, the European Commission and the global research community to publish policy relevant advice. Phil practiced emergency medicine in the Asia-Pacific region, including in remote and Indigenous communities. He has been an independent advisor to health departments in New Zealand, Singapore, and Australia. He is an applied health economist and is a chief investigator on the Centre for Research Excellence on Value-Based Payments in Cancer Care and the Cancer-Patient Population Projections project. At the Leeder Centre, Phil advances resilience and health system reform, especially funding policy and virtual care.

Kees van Gool is professor of health policy and systems at the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data, University of Sydney. He is a health economist with extensive experience in international, national and regional health policy research. His primary research interests focus on health policy evaluation, payment models, and health system performance measurement, including international comparisons. Kees has a joint appointment with the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority, where he is the Chief Health Economist. Kees has quantitative skills in micro-economic modelling and has established a strong track record in using linked data.

Sam’s role at IHACPA is to lead the evaluation and development of pricing models that are used to determine Australian Government funding for public hospitals and aged care services. Examples include the first pricing models for admitted and community mental health care, predictive risk models used to assess funding for hospital-acquired complications and avoidable readmissions, Australia’s first cost-based pricing models for residential aged care, and the block-funded cost model for small rural hospitals. Before joining the public service, Sam was a pure mathematics research and teaching academic at the University of Wollongong. He is an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data at the University of Sydney.