She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Health Economics Group, Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. She is a Dame Kate Campbell Fellow in Research Excellence (2020-24) and holds an Investigator Award with the NHMRC (2021-25).

Kim Dalziel joined the School of Population and Global Health in 2013 as a McKenzie Fellow. She was a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Practice and Policy with The Commonwealth Fund based at The University of Michigan for 2017/18. She leads a program of research in child health and has specialist expertise in economic evaluation and modelling, child health policy, vulnerability/equity and use of health services and economic evaluation alongside clinical trials. She actively supervises Masters of Public Health, clinical advanced trainee research projects and PhD students. A/Prof Dalziel has active collaborations with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), the Royal Children's Hospital, The Women's Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She has active research collaborations with The University of Michigan and Oxford University. Her previous appointments include with the Health Economics and Social Policy Group at the University of South Australia, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, and Peninsula Technology Assessment Group at the University of Exeter in the UK. Her formal qualifications include a B. Health Science (hons), a Master of Health Economics and a PhD in Health Economics (awarded February 2011). She has authored peer reviewed publications in international journals, including the top ranking journals New England Journal of Medicine, Health Economics, PharmacoEconomics, Medical Decision Making, and Health Technology Assessment. She has contributed to a book on Economic evaluation in Child Health; published by Oxford University Press.