Curriculum Vitae

CEO, Forecast Health International

Director, Forecast Health Australia

Adjunct Research Fellow, SPGH, The University of Western Australia

rory@forecasthealth.org

2025 - ongoing, CEO, Forecast Health International, Inc

2022 - ongoing, Director, Forecast Health Australia PTY LTD

2015 - 2022, Consultant, World Health Organization, Geneva

2018 - 2020, Research Associate, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia

2017 - 2020, Research Officer, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia

2017, Analyst, Health Economics & Social Policy, Deloitte Access Economics, Melbourne

Built the modelling infrastructure for WHO's NCD investment case platform, supporting the "Saving Lives, Spending Less" report across 170 countries and 29 interventions

Developed the WHO/IARC Cancer Costing Platform for national cancer control planning and scenario analysis, with usage across 57 countries

Built WHO's rapid costing tool and costing database for health service delivery, deployed on WHO hosting (2025)

Built costing, impact and planning tools for WHO programmes in eye and ear care, mental health, oral health, and childhood and cervical cancer

Contributed to WHO Appendix 3 updates in 2016 and 2022, including cost-effectiveness analyses for 14 cancer interventions

Delivered cancer investment case and costing work for Kenya and Mozambique, and supported NCCP-related planning and costing work involving Ghana and Tanzania

Completed cardiovascular disease prevention modelling for the OECD across Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Mexico, and Turkiye

Health economics and modelling consultant to UNDP (2026): expanded the ambient air pollution health model and peer-reviewed tobacco return-on-investment, Uganda OneHealth Tool and Georgia sugar-sweetened beverage tax models

Health impact modelling for onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, scabies and leprosy in an impact evaluation of Medicines Development for Global Health grants, as subcontractor to ACIL Allen (2026)

Built return-on-investment and benefit models for workplace mental health and occupational health programmes, for Edith Cowan University and the International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (2026)

Designed the Botech protocol and software engine for transparent, reusable health economic modelling across WHO platforms

2021, Doctor of Philosophy, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia

2015, Master of Public Health with Distinction, The University of Western Australia

2014, Bachelor of Arts (English Literature), The University of Western Australia

2014, Bachelor of Medical Science with First Class Honours in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia

Hutchinson, B., Watts, R., Nyangasi, M., Anderson, B. O., Chepchumba, J., Wangia, E., Jalang'o, R., Mwenda, V., Yerramilli, P., Kuguru, T. L., Kabubei, K. M., Gordillo-Tobar, A., Meheus, F., Meyer, C., Ilbawi, A., & Nugent, R. (2024). An economic evaluation of breast cancer interventions in Kenya. EClinicalMedicine, 77.

Li, I. W., Watts, R., Brett, T., Radford, J., Heal, C., Gill, G., Hespe, C., Vargas-garcia, C., Sullivan, D. R., Vickery, A. W., Pang, J., Arnold-reed, D. E., Chan, D. C., & Watts, G. F. (2022). Cost impact of undertaking detection and management of familial hypercholesterolaemia in Australian general practice. Australian Journal of General Practice, 51(8), 604-609.

Doleman, G., Duffield, C., Li, I., & Watts, R. (2022). Employment of the Australian graduate nursing workforce: A retrospective analysis. Collegian, 29(2), 228-235.

Stenberg, K., Watts, R., Bertram, M. Y., Engesveen, K., Maliqi, B., Say, L., & Hutubessy, R. (2021). Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Outcomes: A WHO-CHOICE Analysis for Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 10(11), 706-723.

Bertram, M. Y., Chisholm, D., Watts, R., Waqanivalu, T., Prasad, V., & Varghese, C. (2021). Cost-Effectiveness of Population Level and Individual Level Interventions to Combat Non-communicable Disease in Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: A WHO-CHOICE Analysis. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 10(11), 724-733.

Trentino, K. M., Mace, H. S., Symons, K., Sanfilippo, F. M., Leahy, M. F., Farmer, S. L., Hofmann, A., Watts, R. D., Wallace, M. H., & Murray, K. (2021). Screening and treating pre-operative anaemia and suboptimal iron stores in elective colorectal surgery: a cost effectiveness analysis. Anaesthesia, 76(3), 357-365.

Watts, R., Bowles, D. C., Fisher, C., & Li, I. (2021). What Do Public Health Graduates Do and Where Do They Go? An Analysis of Job Destinations and Mismatch in Australian Public Health Graduates. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14), 7504.

Watts, R. D., Bowles, D. C., Fisher, C., & Li, I. W. (2021). Who comes when the world goes Code Blue? A novel method of exploring job advertisements for COVID-19 in health care. Nursing Open, 8(3), 1108-1114.

Watts, R. D., Bowles, D. C., Fisher, C., & Li, I. W. (2021). The growth of Australian public health graduates and courses, 2001-2018: implications for education and employment opportunities. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 45(2), 95-100.

Trentino, K. M., Mace, H., Symons, K., Sanfilippo, F. M., Leahy, M. F., Farmer, S. L., Watts, R. D., Hamdorf, J. M., & Murray, K. (2020). Associations of a Preoperative Anemia and Suboptimal Iron Stores Screening and Management Clinic in Colorectal Surgery With Hospital Cost, Reimbursement, and Length of Stay: A Net Cost Analysis. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 344-352.

Watts, R., Bowles, D. C., Ryan, E., Fisher, C., & Li, I. (2020). No Two Workforces are the Same: A Systematic Review of the Enumerations and Definitions of Public Health Workforces. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 588092.

Watts, R. D., Bowles, D. C., Fisher, C., & Li, I. W. (2019). Public health job advertisements in Australia and New Zealand: a changing landscape. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 43(6), 522-528.

Watts, R., & Li, W. (2019). Use of Checklists in Reviews of Health Economic Evaluations, 2010 to 2018. Value in Health, 22(3), 377-382.

Bertram, M. Y., Stenberg, K., Brindley, C., Li, J., Serje, J., Watts, R., & Edejer, T. T. T. (2017). Disease control programme support costs: An update of WHO-CHOICE methodology, price databases and quantity assumptions. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 15(1), 21.

Watts, R. D., Li, I. W., Geelhoed, E. A., Sanfilippo, F. M., & St. John, A. (2017). Economic Evaluations of Pathology Tests, 2010-2015: A Scoping Review. Value in Health, 20(8), 1210-1215.

Stock, S. J., Patey, O., Thilaganathan, B., White, S., Furfaro, L. L., Payne, M. S., Spiller, O. B., Noé, A., Watts, R., Carter, S., Ireland, D. J., Jobe, A. H., Newnham, J. P., & Kemp, M. W. (2017). Intrauterine Candida albicans Infection Causes Systemic Fetal Candidiasis with Progressive Cardiac Dysfunction in a Sheep Model of Early Pregnancy. Reproductive Sciences, 24(1), 77-84.

Friedland, P., Lee-Pullen, T. F., Nathan, L. A., Watts, R., Keelan, J. A., Payne, M. S., & Ireland, D. J. (2016). T cell cytokine responses to stimulation with Ureaplasma parvum in pregnancy. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 116, 93-97.

Payne, M., Ireland, D., Watts, R., Nathan, L., Furfaro, L., Kemp, M., Keelan, J., & Newnham, J. (2016). Ureaplasma parvum genotype, combined vaginal colonisation with Candida albicans, and spontaneous preterm birth in an Australian cohort of pregnant women. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16(1), 1-13.

Friedland, Y. D., Lee-Pullen, T., Nathan, L., Watts, R., Keelan, J., Payne, M., & Ireland, D. (2015). Whole blood flow cytometric analysis of Ureaplasma-stimulated monocytes from pregnant women. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 109, 84-88.

Miura, Y., Payne, M., Keelan, J., Noe, A., Carter, S., Watts, R., Spiller, O. B., Jobe, A., Kallapur, S., Saito, M., Stock, S. J., Newnham, J., & Kemp, M. (2014). Maternal intravenous treatment with either azithromycin or solithromycin clears Ureaplasma parvum from the amniotic fluid in an ovine model of intrauterine infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 58(9), 5413-5420.

Kemp, M., Miura, Y., Payne, M., Watts, R., Megharaj, S., Jobe, A., Kallapur, S., Saito, M., Spiller, O. B., Keelan, J., & Newnham, J. (2014). Repeated maternal intramuscular or intraamniotic erythromycin incompletely resolves intrauterine Ureaplasma parvum infection in a sheep model of pregnancy. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 211(2), 134.e1-134.e9.