About
I am a health economist specialising in public health. I am interested in food policy including food security, food taxes and subsidies, health inequalities, quality of life, wellbeing, CVD, cancer, infectious diseases including COVID-19, and substance use. I have worked as a health economist in the NHS, academia, in local authorities and in Government, and as a consultant for UNICEF. I worked in Welsh Government where I was Head of Health Economics, Advanced Analytics and Policy Modelling, in the Science Evidence Advice Division.
My PhD was in health economics and management studies and was around combining realist evaluation with economic modelling to evaluate public health programmes.
I have worked on projects funded by NIHR, the US National Institutes of Health, the European Commission and the British Heart Foundation. I have led on economic modelling work for NICE and previously held an honorary post with Public Health England to collaborate on local applications for the global burden of disease (GBD). I have sat as expert member on a NICE Public Health Advisory Committee and have been on an NIHR HSDR funding committee, as well as doing reviews for NIHR, the European Commission, HDRUK and others.
Prizes or Honours
- 2018 Tufts-CEVR Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Paper of the Year Award - Shortlisted (Tufts Centre for Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, 2019)
- Paul Dudley White International Scholar at American Heart Association EPI/Lifestyle 2018 Scientific Sessions (American Heart Association, 2018)
- ‘Public Health Implementation’ prize in the Lancet Public Health conference. London, UK. 24/11/2017 (Lancet Public Health, 2017)