Jaithri Ananthapavan

Jaithri Ananthapavan is a Senior Research Fellow and health economist who leads the Economics of Obesity stream within Deakin Health Economics and the Global Obesity Centre at Deakin University. Her research interest is the economic evaluation of preventive health interventions and methods development to better assist decision-makers use economic evidence in resource allocation decisions. Jaithri leads a body of work with the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre developing frameworks for using cost-benefit analysis methods to better capture the inter-sectoral impacts of preventive health initiatives.