Aydogan Ulker is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Deakin University in 2008, he was a Research Fellow at Australian National University in Canberra. His main areas of research include health economics and labour economics. His research has been published in journals such as, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Population Economics. He is currently working on issues relating the economic analysis of health and mortality outcomes and the analysis of public policies concerning health and mortality.