John Goss has worked as a health economist for over 30 years. For many years he was Principal Economist at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare where he and a small team produced the Health Accounts for Australia. These Health Accounts included a disease dimension and separately estimated health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
In recent years he has collaborated with the China National Health Development Research Center on their health accounts and has been involved in projecting health expenditure for China by disease.