Speaker profile

Sarah Neville, Ph.D.

2022–23 Australian Harkness Fellow in Heath Care Policy and Practice - University of Pennsylvania , Director of Analytics - Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority

Sarah Neville, Ph.D., is a 2022–23 Australian Harkness Fellow in Heath Care Policy and Practice. She is currently the director of analytics at the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority. Sarah has worked in the Australian health system for ten years, setting the price of hospital services in order to make hospital funding more transparent and equitable. She joined the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority in 2013 and has since held successive roles as director of pricing, executive director of data and analytics, and senior advisor of statistics and research. Sarah is passionate about the power of statistics to inform evidence-based policy, both in Australia and internationally. Her interests lie in health funding systems, particularly innovative funding models, as well as women in STEM leadership. She is the current chair of the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics Advisory Committee at the University of Wollongong, where she completed a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics.