Meet the Team
The core team comprises experts in the economics and statistics of health care provision and financing, pricing and regulation of pharmaceuticals, and health technology assessment. The team combines experience from industry, the public sector and academic research.
All core team members publish peer reviewed research, and present at major international conferences, thus maintaining their intellectual rigour. Conducting research also ensures the latest thinking and techniques in health economics are used to our clients’ advantage.
The team is supplemented by our extensive network of policy, economic and statistical experts based in the UK and internationally. Together we provide some of the best expertise in the world.
Professor Adrian Towse
Director
Adrian has 20 years’ experience in the economics of the health and pharmaceutical industries. He joined the OHE in 1993. His research interests include the economic and public policy impact of competition and regulation in the pharmaceutical industry, plus the use of risk-sharing arrangements alongside health economic evaluations....
Jon Sussex MA MSc
Deputy Director
Jon joined the OHE in 1997 as its Associate Director, his areas of expertise include efficiency and incentives in the NHS, the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, health care expenditure and the role of the private sector in the NHS (including the Private Finance Initiative)...
Dr Karen Johnson
Business Manager
Karen Joined the OHE in April 2007. Prior to joining the OHE, she acted as lead consultant for the Intelligent Consulting Services. Her projects included the design of complex programmes for regulatory compliance of healthcare clinics; the lead of change management programmes to build up effective healthcare team services, cost reduction, and service delivery; and the provision of on site training to assist with the dissemination, interpretation and application of policies and procedures...
Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz BSc PhD
Senior Economist
Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz re-joined the Office of Health Economics in February 2006 as a Senior Economist after a year working at Farmaindustria, the Spanish pharmaceutical trade association. Current research interests include medicines’ pricing and reimbursement .....
Phill O'Neill
OHE Consultant
Phill has been working for the ABPI as their Business Intelligence Executive since 1998, providing analytical support for a variety of projects including PPRS negotiations and PICTF. Before this he worked at the Wellhouse NHS Trust in a variety of roles including membership of the...
Martina Garau BA (Hons) Msc
Economist
Martina initially joined the Office of Health Economics and OHE Consulting as an intern, funded by a Leonardo da Vinci grant. Her research project was to examine the development of methods used by NICE in its technology appraisal process. She has since joined the OHE ....
Koonal Shah
Health Economist
Koonal initially joined the OHE as a research placement student, working on a project entitled "Severity and priority-setting: a review of the debate and empirical evidence". He joined OHE as a full-time Health Economist in October 2008. His current research interests include equity in health, experimental economics, and health care rationing criteria.
Qing Wang
Health Economist
Qing Wang joined the OHE on 21st April, 2008 as a Health Economist. She has worked on the economic evaluation of the robotic surgery in King’s college, London and Guy’s hospital after completing her PhD project in Health Economics from the University of York in 2007.....
Ebenezer Tetteh
Health Economist
Ebenezer Tetteh joined the OHE on 11th August, 2008 as a Health Economist. Prior to that he worked as a (health technology) analyst in the Appraisals Programme of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Emma Hawe MSc BSc
Head of Statistics
Emma Hawe joined the OHE in August 2006. Prior to joining OHE, she worked as a Statistician for the Healthcare Commission for two years, where her responsibilities included the analysis of large, national, complex datasets, including Hospital Episode Statistics and data from the...
Claire Devaney
PA to Prof Adrian Towse
Claire Devaney, PA to Adrian Towse Director of OHE joined the OHE in January 2008. Prior to joining OHE, she worked as a PA for Halcrow Group Limited for three years where her responsibilities included providing PA support to the regional Managing Director. Alongside this she also provided business support to ....
