Professor Julie Ratcliffe

Julie Ratcliffe is Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor of Health Economics in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She is the Health and Social Care Economics Theme Leader for the Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University and also holds an Honorary Professorial Appointment in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. Professor Ratcliffe is also the current holder of an NHMRC Leadership Fellowship (Investigator L2 2025-2029) 

Previously Professor Ratcliffe has held academic positions in the Health Economics Research Unit at Brunel University, the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield and the Institute for Choice, University of South Australia. During the course of her career, Professor Ratcliffe has published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals and she has been a chief investigator on over 60 multi-disciplinary research grants including grants awarded by the NHMRC and ARC in Australia and the MRC and ESRC in the UK. Her research interests include the measurement and valuation of health and quality of life outcomes, patient and consumer preferences and the economic evaluation of interventions across health and social care sectors.