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Sarah Neville is the Director, Pricing at the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA), and is responsible for delivering the National Efficient Price annually. Sarah’s background is in mathematics and statistics, holding a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wollongong. She was invited to present doctoral research at the University of Oxford in 2012. Sarah recently spent six weeks in remote Australia working with Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation developing better ways to communicate key health statistics to Indigenous Australians.
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Dr. Ailawadhi has expertise in the field of plasma cell disorders, specifically multiple myeloma and focuses on clinical drug development as well as a special interest in secondary data analysis looking at outcome disparities and healthcare economics. He has accumulated vast experience in the area of disparities in healthcare utilization and outcomes by patient race and ethnicity and how the management, access and effects of therapeutic interventions may be different for various patient subgroups. Several of his research projects focusing on healthcare economics, cost-effectiveness and outcome disparities have been recognized in the form of presentations at national and international meetings as well as peer-reviewed publications.
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Samath D. Dharmaratne is an Associate Professor and a Consultant Community Physician attached to the Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and has been in the permanent academic cadre for the past 22 years. Samath was a former Head of the Department, a former Public Health specialist in the World Bank, and a former postgraduate fellow in the University of Washington. He is a Senior Fellow of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. He is a Board Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and the Course Coordinator of the Diploma in Exercise and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Medicine.
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