The [new] economics of cancer
Date
From: Wednesday November 5, 2025, 5:30 pm
To: Wednesday November 5, 2025, 9:00 pm
Cancer has an enormous and increasing effect on the Australian economy, with $10 billion in direct health costs each year and more than $2 billion in lost productivity alone. Caring for cancer patients have a profound economic effect on families.
Yet all of this is changing. New technologies in screening and therapies already are having a profound effect on cancer – but what effect will these dizzying changes have on a fragile economy?
Join us to hear this interesting presentation and discussion with Professor Emily Lancsar.
Drinks and canapes will be provided.
Proudly sponsored by Bell Health Advisory.
Professor Steve Robson is both a surgeon and health economist and is immediate past-President of the Australian Medical Association. He has been published in the Economic Record, Economic Papers, and the Australian Economic Review. Steve is on the academic staff of the ANU Medical School and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and is a Fellow of the Colleges of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Australia, the UK, and the United States. Australia’s delegate to the World Medical Association.
He has been awarded not one but two research Doctorates (a PhD and an MD) and holds two Masters degrees – one in public health, the other in reproductive medicine and genetics. Beyond medicine, Steve had undertaken additional training in health economics through institutions in the UK and the US, and has completed a Master’s degree in Health Economics. He is a member of the Economic Society of Australia.
Professor Emily Lancsar
Chief Health Economist (Department of Health, Disability and Aging)
Emily is the Chief Health Economist at the Department of Health, Disability and Aging. She previously spent 25 years in academia, most recently as Head of the Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society at the Australian National University (ANU). She served as Associate Dean (Policy and Practice) in the College of Health and Medicine at the ANU from 2020–2022, where she remains a Professor.
Emily has also held academic appointments at Monash University (where she remains an Adjunct Professor), the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the United Kingdom, the University of Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney.
While in academia, Emily held numerous grants and fellowships, was a member of several government advisory committees and served as Vice President of the Australian Health Economics Society. Emily holds PhD, Masters, and Bachelors degrees in Economics, a Postgrad Diploma in Health Economics and Evaluation and a Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies).
Bookings are now closed
Venue
The Commonwealth Club
25 Forster Cresent, Yarralumla ACT 2600