Dr Lisa Higgins

Lisa leads the Health Economics Program and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University. She is co-Chair of the Australasian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) Health Economics Alongside Trials (HEAT) Group. Lisa has been conducting critical care and health economics research for over 15 years. Her research focuses on clinical trial methodology, long-term outcomes, and conducting economic evaluations alongside clinical trials in critical care. She has extensive experience in adaptive platform trials, having being involved in the REMAP-CAP trial since its inception, leading its data coordination team throughout the pandemic and leading both the health economics and long-term outcomes globally. Lisa has more than 150 publications with over 15,000 citations and has multiple clinical trial publications in high impact journals including the NEJM and JAMA. Lisa has served as a member of the management committees of 23 large-scale international randomised controlled NHMRC/MRFF trials.