Jack is an internationally recognised economist with extensive experience in health economics research, policy, advocacy, and evaluation. Jack has undertaken health economic analysis and provided technical advice for some of Australia’s largest health programs and led health economics research and design for eye health projects across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Pacific.  

Jack’s work focuses on ensuring access to eyecare for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, through innovative social protection and financing mechanisms, cost-effectiveness analysis of contemporary technology at scale, and demonstration of the economic and development impacts of eye health on individuals, families, and societies. More broadly, his research has focused on the dynamics of international development aid and how donors, recipient governments, and aid beneficiaries can work together to achieve sustainable success. 

He has been published in leading international health economics journals including Social Science and Medicine, the Patient, and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as well as acting as a reviewer for prominent publications and international conferences. Jack has taught economics and health economics at the university graduate level, holds dual bachelor’s degrees in biomedical science and economics (honours, first class) and has been completing a PhD at Monash University’s Centre for Health Economics.