Economics Sub Committee (ESC)

Information on members of the Economics Sub-Committee (ESC) of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)

The Economics Sub Committee (ESC) of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) assesses clinical and economic evaluations of medicines submitted to the PBAC for listing, and advises PBAC on the technical aspects of these evaluations.

ESC contact details can be found in PBS Contacts

Current Membership

Associate Professor Rosalie Viney (Chair) is a health economist, Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney. She is also a member of the PBAC.

Dr Suzanne Hill is a clinical pharmacologist previously employed as a Scientist in the Department of Medicines Policy and Standards at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to this she was Associate Professor/ Senior Lecturer, Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle. She is the Chair of the PBAC.

Associate Professor Michael Coory is a public-health physician and statistician at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.

Professor Jennifer Doust is a general practitioner and Professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University.

Associate Professor Kirsten Howard is a health economist and Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney.

Ms Brita Pekarsky is a health economist and Full Time PhD student at the School of Economics and Discipline of Public Health of the University of Adelaide.

Professor Anne Tonkin, Director of the Medicine Learning and Teaching Unit and a clinical pharmacologist and a consultant physician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Dr Clement Loy is a senior lecturer at the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, and Director of Huntington Disease Service and Staff Specialist in Neurology, Westmead Hospital.

Professor Jonathan Karnon is a health economist in the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, University of Adelaide.

Industry representative from Medicines Australia.

Dr Michael Sorich is a pharmacist and an epidemiologist and is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia.