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)...
Professor Nancy Devlin
Director of Research
Nancy joined the OHE in 2009, bringing over 20 years of experience in health economics research. Nancy has published original research on a wide range of health economics topics in economics, health services research and health policy journals and is co-author of a leading UK textbook, Economic Analysis in Health Care.
Dr Karen Johnson
General 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;
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
Senior Economist
Martina joined the Office of Health Economics as a permanent team member in 2004 and, since then, she has contributed to consultancy and research across a wide range of projects.
Koonal Shah
Health Economist
Koonal joined OHE in 2008, and has worked on a number of research and consulting projects in the fields of health policy, economic evaluation, and pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement.
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).
Ruth Puig-Peiro
Health Economist
Ruth joins the OHE from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics where she worked as a Research Officer on the project "Economics of Parenting Programmes" funded by the National Academy of Parenting Practitioners (NAPP), King’s College London.
Priya Sharma
Health Economist
Priya has recently joined the OHE. Prior to joining, she worked as in intern at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, where her research focused primarily on exploring the potential of open source drug discovery (OSDD) to help combat drug resistance in developing countries.
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 ....
