Sabrina Lenzen

I’m a Research Fellow and Health Economist at The University of Queensland’s Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH). My expertise is in applied economics, using econometric and discrete choice modelling techniques to study care needs and health behaviour of people. I am particularly passionate about improving the lives of older people with special focus on cognitive decline, dementia, informal and formal aged care.

My research is funded through competitive grants through the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). I am a Chief Investigator on two MRFF grants; one is evaluating the costs and benefits of a hearing and vision intervention in home care and another evaluating alcohol harm reduction interventions. I am a postdoc on an ARC grant that utilises economic methods to align population needs to capacities to care and service provision and on an NHMRC grant developing and testing new models for understanding and improving the treatment of youth substance use.

I hold a Bachelors degree in Health Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany (Dean’s Awards) and a Masters degree in Health Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Cum Laude Award). I received my PhD in Health Economics from the University of Queensland where I was awarded the BEL faculty HDR Excellent Award.