Dr Sabrina Lenzen

Dr Sabrina Lenzen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH) at The University of Queensland. Her research sits at the intersection of health economics, applied microeconometrics, and health policy, with a particular focus on aged care, cognitive function, mental health, and health service planning.

Sabrina's work examines how individuals, families, and health systems navigate the challenges of an ageing population — from the economic costs of dementia care to the physical and mental health trajectories of different generations. Her research has been published in leading journals including JAMA Network Open, Social Science & Medicine, and Journal of Population Economics, and has attracted significant media coverage in outlets such as The Guardian.

She has led and contributed to over $8 million in competitive research funding from the MRFF, NHMRC, and ARC, and serves as Chief Investigator on projects spanning chronic pain, dementia diagnosis, alcohol use in young people, and sensory support for older Australians.

Sabrina teaches Health Economics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervises several PhD and Masters students. She is co-founder and convenor of the Australian Health Economics Society's Special Interest Group on Ageing, Aged Care and Dementia, and has held visiting research fellowships at RWI Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research and the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

She holds a PhD in Economics from UQ (Faculty PhD Excellence Award), an MSc in Health Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam (Cum Laude), and a BSc in Health Economics from the University of Cologne (Dean's Award).