Matthew Hamilton
Research Fellow at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMatthew Hamilton is a research fellow and health economist with three decades of experience translating investment cases into measurable impact across health and education, and eight years focused on computational economic modelling. He develops transparent, reusable and updatable decision models—now central to his PhD work—and has evaluated programs involving over $500M of public expenditure for government and non-government clients. Combining expertise in microsimulation, time-series forecasting, structured expert elicitation and policy lab facilitation, he has influenced national and international mental health policy and co-founded a community of practice for decision modelling. Equally at home with stakeholder engagement and high-performance scientific computing, he builds reproducible software tools (R, Git/GitHub, CI, Shiny) that bridge academic rigour and policy relevance. Notably, his career began in strategy, communications and philanthropy where he helped seed enduring mental health institutions, giving him rare cross-sector perspective on scaling evidence into practice.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate-Advanced Certificate, Spanish, Intermediate-Advanced Certificate, Spanish at Instituto Antigueno de EspanolErasmus Certificate, Communications, Economic History, IT, Political Science, Erasmus Certificate, Communications, Economic History, IT, Political Science at Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble II)Advocacy, Communications, Finance, Group Facilitation, Media Production, Philanthropy, Social Change, Advocacy, Communications, Finance, Group Facilitation, Media Production, Philanthropy, Social Change at Various Professional Development CoursesMasters of Science, Health Economics, First class honours, Masters of Science, Health Economics, First class honours at National University of Ireland, GalwayBBS, Economics, Accountancy, French, BBS, Economics, Accountancy, French at University of LimerickDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health Economics at Monash University
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
mental-health7
health7
health-data6
simulation6
synthesis5
bounce4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ready4-dev/ready4fun
Nov 2020 - Apr 2024
Tools to implement reproducible workflows for authoring and documenting code libraries used in mental health data synthesis and simulation projects
Contributions:5 releases, 350 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years 5 months
mental-healthhealth-datamentalhealthsynthesis
ready4-dev/ready4class
Nov 2020 - Apr 2024
Methods to standardise and streamline approach to creating S3 and S4 classes and associated getters and setters for use in the readyforwhatsnext data synthesis and simulation suite.
Contributions:3 releases, 271 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years 5 months
streamlinecrosswordpythonbootstrappingapproach
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