My research fields of interest are health economics, economics of education, and development economics. My research interests include the social economic determinants of health and human capital, the effects of incentives in the health care markets on physician behaviours and health care quality, and modelling patient's and physician's preferences using Discrete Choice Experiments.

Jinhu is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Health Services Research & Policy, Research School of Population Health at the Australian National University. Previously she worked as a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. From 2017 to 2021 she is an Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow. She obtained her PhD in economics from McMaster University in Canada in 2011.