Andrea Natsky

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Sydney

Andrea is an early career researcher for the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are in the area of health economics and economic evaluation, focussing on supporting effective policy-making to develop healthier, wealthier and more equitable communities. Her current research involves co-developing decision-support tools using systems modelling and simulation to guide investments in sustained, coordinated and digitally enhanced youth mental health care. The aim is to help investment in best-value policies and models of care.

Her previous research concentrates on investigating cost-effective strategies for the management of sleep health in primary care settings as part of her PhD in collaboration with the National Centre for Sleep Health Services Research (NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence) team at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health and economic evaluation analysis of Nerve Transfer Surgery in Tetraplegia for the Transport Accident Commission (VIC, AU).

From this author

Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.

SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.  

SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.