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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Alan Morris adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Lincoln
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Research Fellow & Deputy Director, HACRU, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow (Housing and Homelessness) at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
