Dr An Duy Tran is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. His current research focuses on economic evaluations of health care programs and development of outcomes simulation models for chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and rheumatic diseases.

He is Head of the Health Economics Node within the Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical and Health Research (MISCH) Hub at the University of Melbourne, which provides high quality clinical and health research support across the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and affiliated hospitals and institutes.

Dr Tran has extensive experience in the use of advanced statistical methods for costs and outcomes analyses, and in development of health economic patient-level simulation models. He led the development of the world’s most comprehensive simulation model to estimate lifetime health outcomes in people with type 1 diabetes. He is also the developer of a number of clinical decision support tools, including the first interactive web application for estimating risks of complications and life expectancy in people with type 1 diabetes, and the first Android and iOS mobile apps for cardiovascular risk assessment in Indigenous Australians, which were based on the first prediction models of their kind. His creative ideas in translating research findings into practice were awarded by the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health with a Research Achievement Award for Technical Innovation in 2020.

Dr. Tran has been a key member in consulting projects contracted with the Australian Federal Government, with recent projects involving the use of a computer model to evaluate the cost-utility of emerging therapies for type 2 diabetes in the Australian setting, and systematic reviews of studies on cost-effectiveness of interventions for type 2 diabetes. He has been a successful co-applicant in research grants (NHMRC and MRFF) worth over $6 million. Before joining the University of Melbourne in 2016, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher at Maastricht University and Assistant Professor at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands.