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Dr. Safdar Khan is a senior economist at the City of Gold Coast Council\\\'s Economy, Planning, and Environment Directorate in Queensland, and an honorary senior research fellow at Bond Business School, Bond University Australia. He holds a Ph.D. in Behavioural Economics, an MPhil in Law, Finance, and Economic Growth, and a master\\\'s degree in applied economics. Safdar has extensive expertise in teaching, research, and public policy creation. His research interests include family economics, intrahousehold decision-making, women\\\'s empowerment and its role in children\\\'s well-being, economic-impact modeling and forecasting, strategies and strategic decision-making, energy and environmental economics, resource economics, and public policy analysis. He often publishes in high-quality peer-reviewed journals and contributes to specialized research reports and book chapters, such as Sustainable Development Asia-Pacific Perspectives, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Dr Elcin Tuzel is a Research Fellow and Health Economist at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH) at The University of Queensland. Her research applies econometric methods to evaluate health and education policies, focusing on primary care delivery, workforce planning, and mental health. As a Chief Investigator on multiple interdisciplinary projects, she examines how governance, institutional design, and policy interventions influence health outcomes and system efficiency. Elcin is an active member of the Australian Health Economics Society, convenor of its Mental Health Special Interest Group, and a certified Mental Health First Aider.