Professor Julie Ratcliffe leads the Health and Social Care Economics Group in the Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. She also holds an Honorary Professorial appointment in the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield. Julie is the current holder of an NMHRC Investigator Fellowship (L2) an experienced health economist and an internationally recognized leader in economic evaluation and the measurement and valuation of health and quality of life outcomes to inform aged care and health system decision making. During her career, she has been a Chief Investigator on over 60 multi-disciplinary research grants and co-authored over 300 peer reviewed journal papers. Julie is the inaugural health economist member of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) Council on Economic Policy and the immediate Past President of the Australian Health Economics Society.