Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Social policy, Population trends and policies, Health equity, Health geography, Health policy, Health systems, Health economicsBiography
Raf is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for Future Health Systems (ICFHS), a cross-faculty research centre at UNSW Sydney. He has worked as an economic advisor for the British Government, an economist at the OECD, and a consultant for UNESCAP, World Bank, APEC, and the Asian Development Bank. He specialises in social policy design, demographic modelling, household surveys, and analysis of health and economic...view more
Raf is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for Future Health Systems (ICFHS), a cross-faculty research centre at UNSW Sydney. He has worked as an economic advisor for the British Government, an economist at the OECD, and a consultant for UNESCAP, World Bank, APEC, and the Asian Development Bank. He specialises in social policy design, demographic modelling, household surveys, and analysis of health and economic inequality. He has spent the last decade working at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), as the Centre’s lead on research translation, focusing on producing and disseminating accessible, policy-related briefing papers that communicate academic insights to policymakers, practitioners, and the media.
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
Social gradients in health
My Engagement
Sep 2025 Multidisciplinary team care: making it work
Apr 2025 Amid Election Cash Splash for Health, Experts Call for Reforms to Support ‘Slow Medicine’
Aug 2023 Slower Ageing, Slower Growth: the Intergenerational Report in 7 charts
Jun 2021 The Intergenerational Report was Sobering, but the Reality May be Worse
Oct 2020 At The Heart Of The Broken Model for Funding Aged Care is Broken Trust. Here’s How to Fix It
Nov 2019 We’re Delaying Major Life Events, and Our Retirement Income System Hasn’t Caught Up
Nov 2018 Renters Beware: How the Pension and Super Could Leave You Behind
Sep 2018 It’s Hard to Make Money in Aged Care, And That’s Part of the Problem
Sep 2018 Retiring At 70 Was an Idea Well Ahead of Its Time
Apr 2018 Australia is One of the World’s Best Places to Retire, or is it?
Feb 2017 Is Australia on Track to Have the Oldest Pension Age in the Developed World?
Sep 2016 Are One in Three Age Pensioners Living Under the Poverty Line?
Jun 2015 Super, Savings Are Meant to Fund Retirement, Not Be Bequeathed to Others
May 2015 Budget Brief: Will I Lose My Pension?
Mar 2015 The Intergenerational Report and Reforming the Age Pension
Sep 2014 A Statistical Portrait of the Older Australian
Jul 2014 Turning Super Into Income: Inquiry Opens Retirement Funding Debate
Ma 2014 The Pension Age is Rising to 70: A Case of One Size Fits Some
Nov 2013 Australia is Ageing, but is Lifting the Retirement Age Inevitable?
Aug 2013 A More Sustainable Australia: Staying in Work as We Age
Aug 2013 To Create a Fairer Super System, Keep Gender Out of it
Apr 2013 Population Ageing Beyond the Balance Sheet
Mar 2013 Gender Inequality: A Case for Investing in Informal Care
Sep 2012 It’s Time to Redefine the Traditional Working Age
Jun 2012 Australian Census: Women are Living Longer, and on Less
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-3355