Henry is an accomplished economics professor, the inaugural director of the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and has held leadership positions at KPMG and Deloitte Access Economics. He is recognised nationally as a health economics leader, contributing to important health and aged care debates.

Under his leadership, MUCHE has grown from one researcher to nearly 30. It now manages over 40 research projects worth more than $10 million to Macquarie University. In total, MUCHE chief investigators have contributed to over 150 research projects worth $100 million with internal and external collaborators, contributing substantially to health economics research. He is also one of four directors on the Australian Institute of Health Information executive committee, which managed $60.6 million worth of research in 2023.

Henry is an applied health economist, having conducted over 180 commissioned research publications for government and non-government organisations over the last 20 years. He is the Group Leader of the Macquarie University Evaluation Group, which evaluates medicines and medical devices for the pharmaceutical benefits advisory committee (PBAC) and the medical services advisory committee (MSAC). This group has conducted over 50 evaluations.

Henry has a distinguished record of scholarship, demonstrated through 33 journal articles and 518 citations in the last five years. He has been a chief investigator on multiple high-value grants worth a total of $34 million. His research has impacted economic and social outcomes in health and aged care, and he has received numerous awards from Macquarie University and externally for his research contributions. For example, he was awarded the inaugural Deeble Institute Fellowship by the Australian Health and Hospitals Association.

Henry serves on several nationally important expert advisory panels for government and chairs important research committees, reflecting his influence in the field. He currently sits on the Department of Health and Aged Care Expert Advisory Panel for the Review of General Practice Incentive Programs and the Review of Primary Care After Hours Programs, the National Suicide Prevention Office Expert Advisory Board, and the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) Investment Effectiveness Program Academic Advisory Panel.

Henry was an expert witness to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety twice, advised the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health on evaluating the economics of mental health, and sat on the Evaluation Working Group, National Workplace Initiative, National Mental Health Commission.

Henry has presented at over 80 national and international conferences and hosted 27 external seminars within the MUCHE external seminar series and 11 Executive Round Tables that have attracted over 100 C-Suite executives. MUCHE has hosted the Australian Health Economics Association Annual Conference (2017), and renowned scholars from Columbia University, Imperial College London, Harvard University, University of Oxford and University of York.  

Henry has a strong media presence, having been interviewed by national media outlets on television and radio 15 times in the last five years. This includes the 7:30 report, ABC Radio National, Channel 10 news and The Weekend Today Show on Channel 9. I have published 24 opinion pieces in national media, such as The Australian, Australian Financial Review, The Age and The Mandarin.

More recently, Henry has published 13 articles in The Conversation in the last two years with over 350,000 reads, becoming the most highly cited author in The Conversation within MQBS. His article on why pharmacists have resisted government policy to improve pharmaceutical access was selected by The Conversation in their book ‘A year of consequence’ in 2023.

Policy evaluation

Value based payments

Mental Health

Aged Care

Integrated Care

Australian Health Economics Association

International Health Economics Association

International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)

Centre for Hearing Education Application Research (H:EAR), Macquarie University

Centre for LifeSpan Health and Wellbeing, Macquarie University

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Depression Treatment Precision