Dr Anam Bilgrami is a Senior Research Fellow at the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, who specialises in causal inference and health policy evaluation. Anam Bilgrami has over a decade of experience in economics research applied to health and aged care, and is passionate about using economics to improve decision making and policy design in Australia. She has experience in both academia and industry, including previously held positions as a Senior Economist and Manager at Deloitte Access Economics.

Anam is a recipient of a prestigious Macquarie University Research Fellowship 2025, through which she will explore preferences and policy impacts in Australian school mental health initiatives.

Anam completed her PhD at MUCHE, and was awarded the 2020 Macquarie Business School Award for Research Excellence in Economics for her thesis ('Evaluating the effect of Australian policies on health and health care outcomes using panel data'). Other awards and honours received by Anam include being a Highly Commended Finalist for Excellence in Higher Degree Research (''The Rising Stars) at the 2021 Macquarie University Staff Awards, being a Highly Commended Finalist for ECR of the Year ('The Rising Stars') at the 2023 Macquarie University Staff Awards, four Macquarie Business School (MQBS) Research Impact Prizes, being awarded Researcher of the Year - MUCHE at the 2023 Australian Institute of Health and Innovation Staff Awards and Excellence in Research - Early Career at the 2025 MQBS Staff Awards.

Anam's research has been published in prestigious journals ranked A and A* on the ABDC including Health Economics, Industrial Relations, Social Science & Medicine, Economic Record and Health Policy. Anam has been a co-investigator/AI/CI on consultancy and projects worth over $1.9 million to MUCHE, and $9.7 million in total. She was awarded a Covid Recovery Fellowship from Macquarie University in 2022 to undertake aged care research and an e61/Macquarie Business School grant in 2023 to undertake mental health care research.

She has presented research at prestigious conferences both domestic and overseas including EuHEA Conference (Vienna 2024), American-European Health Economics Study Group (Catania 2024) the International Health Economics Association (IHEA) Biennial Congress (Boston 2017), the Health Economics Study Group Winter 2020 Meeting (Newcastle Upon Tyne 2020), the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) conferences, the Australian Conference of Economists (2021) and The Australasian Workshop on Health Economics and Econometrics. 

She is a member of the Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre (a consilience centre) at Macquarie University, is MUCHE's social media coordinator and convenes an AHES Special Interest Group (Financing, funding and organisation of health and care in Australia).

She regularly contributes insights to The Conversation, and has had her research featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, AHES Health Economics Connect, and has published opinion pieces at blogs including AusTaxPolicy.