Dr Jemimah Ride – Biography

Dr Jemimah Ride is a medically qualified health economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Health Economics Unit, Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. Her research uses health economic methods to address mental health and mental health care, including preferences for and distributio of care. She has affiliate positions at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Royal Children’s Hospital. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne in early 2019, Jemimah completed her PhD in health economics at Monash University and then worked at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York in the UK. Before her research career, Dr Ride was a medical practitioner working in emergency medicine, and worked in mental health policy and public health at the Victorian Department of Health.