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Tazman Davies
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Tazman Davies is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate in the Food Policy Division. His research focuses on population-level nutrition and alcohol policies for large-scale improvements in health. He has a particular interest in WHO “best buys” for addressing non-communicable diseases.
His PhD examines the potential effectiveness and implementation feasibility of health-promoting food taxes and subsidies in Australia. Tazman holds a BSc (Advanced Mathematics) from the University of Sydney and an MSc (Health Data Science) from UNSW. He has authored more than 20 peer reviewed publications, including first-author papers in Nature Food and The Lancet Public Health.
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Professor Stephen Jan
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Prof Stephen Jan is Director of Health Systems Science at the George Institute for Global Health, Conjoint Professor of Health Economics at the University of New South Wales, and Professor of Health Systems at Imperial College London. He holds Adjunct Professorships at City University of Hong Kong and Walter Sisulu University in South Africa and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. His areas of expertise are health systems, economic evaluation, health financing, choice experiments and health sector priority setting.
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