Rate My Professor Shnece Duncan

Shnece Duncan holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Canterbury, where she completed her PhD in Economics in 2024, focusing on the economics of dysphagia, and earned her Master of Commerce in Economics. Her research centers on health economics, particularly the economic burdens imposed by dysphagia on stroke patients, disparities in stroke care costs between urban and nonurban hospitals, and the influence of the drug burden index and frailty levels on healthcare expenditures among older frail adults in New Zealand. Duncan has collaborated extensively with researchers from the Department of Medicine at Burwood Hospital, University of Otago, Christchurch, as well as other University of Otago affiliates and institutions such as the University of Auckland.

Key publications include 'The Drug Burden Index and Level of Frailty as Determinants of Healthcare Costs in a Cohort of Older Frail Adults in New Zealand' (Value in Health Regional Issues, 2024, co-authored with Hans Ulrich Bergler, Andrea Menclova, John W. Pickering, Prasad S. Nishtala, Nagham Ailabouni, Sarah N. Hilmer, Dee Mangin, and Hamish Jamieson); 'How Much Does Dysphagia Cost? Understanding the Additional Costs of Dysphagia for New Zealand in Patients Hospitalised with Stroke' (Neuroepidemiology, 2024, with Andrea Menclova and Maggie-Lee Huckabee); 'Estimating the Incidence and Prevalence of Dysphagia in New Zealand' (2024, with Andrea Menclova and Maggie-Lee Huckabee); and 'Comparison of Stroke Care Costs in Urban and Nonurban Hospitals in New Zealand' (Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2023, with Anna Ranta, Andrea Menclova, Maggie-Lee Huckabee, and Dominique Cadilhac). She earned third place and a $1000 prize in the University of Canterbury Three Minute Thesis competition in 2022 for her presentation on 'The Economics of Dysphagia' and presented at the European Society for Swallowing Disorders congress in 2023. In 2020, she interned with Te Pūnaha Matatini at the Ministry for the Environment.