Dr Jinhu Li is a Senior Research Fellow in the ​Department of Health Economics, Wellbeing and Society at the Australian National University. She obtained her PhD in economics from McMaster University in Canada.

Jinhu’s research fields of interest are health economics, economics of education, and development economics. Her main research areas include social determinants of health and human capital and the economics of the health workforce. Her expertise lies in using causal inference methods and Discrete Choice Experiments to address important empirical issues in health, education and development. She has worked on projects investigating the causal effect of parental education on offspring health, cognitive and non-cognitive abilities, the effects of early-life shocks and public policy such as educational reforms on later-life health and human capital outcomes, the effects of incentives and market structure in the health care markets on the behaviours of healthcare providers, and the effects of physician behaviours and models of care on population health outcomes.