Health & Behavioural Economist
Austin Henderson, PhD
I help health organisations, research teams, and public agencies design rigorous studies, evaluate programmes, and turn complex data into decision-ready evidence.
Lecturer in Economics · University of Otago · Dunedin, New Zealand
About Austin
Health economics with an applied, quantitative focus
I am a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Otago, where I teach Health Economics and Game Theory. My work brings economic reasoning and careful empirical design to questions that matter for health policy, programmes, and service delivery.
I completed a PhD in Management in the Economics and Strategic Management group at UC San Diego. Before joining Otago, I was a Research Assistant Professor at Washington State University and served as a senior health economist on large NIH-funded research programmes.
I work across randomised trials, surveys, longitudinal and observational data, economic evaluation, and behavioural experiments—with an emphasis on analyses that are transparent, proportionate, and useful to decision-makers.
Quantitative research
Rigorous evaluation for better decisions
My work combines economics, epidemiology, and behavioural science to estimate programme effects, compare costs and outcomes, and make complex evidence useful.
Costs, outcomes, and value
Cost-efficacy, cost-effectiveness, quality-of-life measurement, and decision-relevant interpretation alongside trials and programmes.
Causal and longitudinal analysis
Randomised studies, secondary trial analysis, longitudinal designs, multivariable modelling, and careful assessment of causal claims.
Surveys, experiments, and measurement
Multi-site surveys, behavioural experiments, power and outcome planning, measurement design, and reproducible statistical analysis.
Consulting
Rigorous analysis, clearly communicated
I provide independent support for programme evaluation, study design, health economics analysis, causal inference, and statistical modelling. Engagements are scoped around the decision you need to make and the evidence required to make it well.
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Have a health economics or evaluation question?
I welcome enquiries from government agencies, NGOs, health providers, research institutes, and mission-driven organisations in New Zealand and internationally.
