Professor & Director of the Centre of Health Economics, University of York, UK. Interest in health technology assessment & pharmaceutical policy. Views my own.
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It was with great sadness that CHE learned that our former colleague, Ken Wright, passed away on 15 March.
Ken was one of the five founding senior researchers when CHE was set up and he was Deputy Director for many years when Alan Maynard was Director.
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Consider the role of decision modelling in economic evaluation to guide decision making.
Use the basic building blocks of decision analysis such as joint and conditional probabilities and expected values.
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Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the decision tree model and build such a model in Excel.
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Understand the strengths and weaknesses of the Markov model and build such a model in Excel.
Build a model for a generic diagnostic test and understand how to assess the value of diagnostic information.
Think critically about the structure of decision models in particular situations and apply these appropriately.
Implement key generic analytic steps in decision analysis such as evidence identification and basic synthesis, sensitivity analysis, and reporting results.
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How do we make good decisions when the evidence is incomplete, the future uncertain, and values diverge?
Don't miss out this live debate on drug pricing, value and innovation with CHE's Professor Karl Claxton and Professor @MJSculpher at the 2026 SMDM Annual Meeting.
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๐ฅ New Program Highlight! Join us at #SMDM2026 for a live debate on drug pricing, value, and innovation featuring Tomas Philipson (UChicago) and Karl Claxton (York). Moderated by Mark Sculpher, with panelists from government, industry & academia. A session you wonโt want to miss.
60% of the UKโs 60k annual hospital admissions for asthma are linked to improper use of medication. ๐
New research shows that improving adherence could:
โ Reduce >100,000 exacerbation events
โ Improve symptom control
โ Save the NHS ~ยฃ59m
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๐ 23 Feb - 24 April 2026
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What impact did our research have in 2024? ๐
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Includes research summaries, events, spotlights, courses & publications.
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Can well-designed payment systems improve hospital care? ๐ก
Our latest Research Summary explores the @NHSuk#BestPracticeTariff and shows how linking payments to evidence-based care improves both care and coordination across hospital teams.
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๐ Over 9M people in the #US skip their medicines each year because they canโt afford them.
Trumpโs new deal with Pfizer promises cheaper drugs โ but could it raise prices elsewhere and harm #GlobalHealth?
Beth Woods explains:
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Speakers are Dr Michela Tinelli, Helen Weatherly, and Ana Duarte. The moderator is Professor Martin Knapp.
The webinar will be held online via Zoom on Monday, September 29th, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM.
Organised by LSE Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).โ
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Last week, we welcomed Dr Nao Yamamoto to CHE!๐ค
Dr Yamamoto shared her research on the #MIGHTI model, a Python-based framework simulating health & disease dynamics across populations, with applications in #Eswatini.๐๐ธ๐ฟ
Thank you for the insightful seminar!
#HealthEconomics
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Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA) online course - either 5 week live online from 20 Oct - 20 Nov 2025, or on-demand self-study dcea.he-evalcourses.com
The course covers methods for analysing equity impacts of health programmes & trade-offs with cost-effectiveness.
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๐ฃ Registration is now open for the #CHEPolicyForum2025!
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๐ 2 Oct | 2โ3.30pm | In person & online
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