Author Alison Pearce

Dr Pearce is a health economist interested in the various costs of cancer. Her research aims to use health services research and health economics to improve cancer care by providing relevant, reliable information for decision making. Currently based at the University of Sydney School of Public Health, she teaches and conducts research in the areas of oncology patient preferences and productivity loss. Dr Pearce’s research extends work on the economics of cancer she did as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at UTS, and as an Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Award Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Cancer Registry in Ireland. Dr Pearce completed her PhD on the costs of chemotherapy side effects at CHERE in 2013, after having worked in cancer clinical trials and health services research for over 10 years.