Jaithri Ananthapavan, Deakin University
Associate Professor Jaithri Ananthapavan leads the Economics of Obesity team within Deakin Health Economics (DHE) and the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE) at Deakin University.
She is an experienced health economist with over 15 years of experience in both health economics consulting and academia. Jaithri’s research interest is the economic evaluation of preventive health interventions and policies, economic modelling, priority setting and in methods to better assist decision-makers use economic evidence in resource allocation decisions. She holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons), Master of Public Health, both from University of Melbourne and a PhD in health economics from Deakin University titled ‘Developing a cost-benefit analysis framework for obesity prevention decision-making’.
