Meet the Team

Adrian’s current research includes incentives for new drugs and vaccines to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance, the use of 'risk-sharing' arrangements between health care payers and pharmaceutical companies, including value-based pricing approaches; the economics of pharmacogenetics for health care payers and the pharmaceutical industry; economic issues that affect both R&D for and access to treatments for diseases prevalent in the developing world.

Professor Lotte Steuten is Head of Consulting and Vice President of the Office of Health Economics.

Lotte’s research interest focuses on the development and application of health economic analysis and health technology assessment (HTA), with the aim to accelerate patient access to high value health care services and treatments. She specializes in quantitative methods for estimating and comparing the expected health and economic benefits of new approaches and interventions in disease prevention, diagnostics and treatment, and prioritizing data collection to efficiently build the evidence for new interventions.

Eleanor joined the OHE in 2019 from studying at UCL, where she received the highest overall grade and highest dissertation mark of any masters level student in 2019 for her MSc in Health Economics and Decision Science. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Oxford. She has five years of experience as a researcher and consultant working on a range of social development issues in low-income settings, including two years based in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Sian joined OHE in September 2021 following the completion of her Masters in Health Economics at the University of York. Her dissertation was undertaken with supervision from the Centre for Health Economics (York) and focused on exploring the relationship between distance and A&E department demand. Prior to her Masters, Sian obtained a BSc in Economics from Newcastle University. As part of her undergraduate studies, she engaged in a 13-month placement as a Research Assistant at the Bank of England.

Amanda’s current research interests include the use of real world evidence to support HTA and product development; novel pricing and reimbursement mechanisms for pharmaceuticals (e.g. managed entry agreements and the economics of indication-based pricing); health state valuation methodology; criteria for the economic evaluation of health interventions; and the interaction between HTA policy and optimal R&D decisions by industry

Charlotte joined OHE at the end of 2018 to take up the new role of Project Manager. Her role involves the planning and smooth execution of OHE research projects as well as supporting the overall growth of OHE.

Hania joined OHE in October 2022 as junior economist following the completion of her masters in Health Economics and Decision Science at University College London. She holds a BSc in International Health from Georgetown University. Hania has previous experience in qualitative and quantitative public health research and has worked on a range of topics in various settings, including tobacco control policy in low- and middle- income countries and the EU, female genital mutilation across Africa and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Egypt.

Isobel joined OHE in 2020. She has an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences specialising in infectious diseases from the University of Cambridge and a Masters of Public Health (MPH) from Imperial College London. Her MPH research focussed on inequality in pharmaceutical innovation for infectious diseases and the impact of World Bank income classification on pharmaceutical innovation. She has completed internships at the World Health Organisation and Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) in Geneva where she worked on their Paediatric HIV and Hepatitis C programmes.

Grace’s areas of expertise include health technology appraisal, economic modelling and clinical guidelines. Grace is also interested in the economic evaluation of diagnostics and patient stratification, early stage modelling, and the economic evaluation of regenerative medicines and other high cost therapies. Grace has recently been appointed to NICE’s Clinical Guidelines Update Standing Committee, where she provides expert advice on the economic implications of NICE’s clinical guideline recommendations.

Jake joined OHE in June 2021 from the investment data and technology industry. Since joining, he has developed expertise in the economics of pharmaceutical innovation, quantitative patient preference research, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer services in the UK. Jake is also interested in economic epidemiology and healthcare systems in lower- and middle-income countries.

Gayathri joined OHE in 2020. She has had 7 years of industry experience in health technology assessment and market access. She holds an MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare from City University, London and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Fred joined the OHE in November 2022 after reading the MSc Global Health Science & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, where he completed his master’s dissertation on health poverty while on placement at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC). Previously, he read the MA (Hons) Economics at the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote his thesis on innovative contracting of health technologies.

Margherita joined the OHE in December 2016 as Economist. Her work at the OHE has involved a number consulting projects, relating to different aspects of pharmaceutical R&D and HTA activities. She has experience in supporting the development of internal strategies for pharmaceutical companies in defining the value proposition of their pipeline (e.g. value frameworks) and the evidence generation processes during the product lifecycle.

Jia joined OHE in September 2020 as an OHE Fellow. She has a BSc in Economics from the University of Bristol and is undertaking an MSc in Health Economics at City University of London. Jia has previous experience within the healthcare management consulting industry and has worked for the NHS and pharmaceutical firms on product deployment and electronic health record (EHR) implementation projects.  

Priscila joined OHE is September 2021 as an OHE Fellow. She is currently studying an MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare at City University London. Priscila was previously an associate at a healthcare communication firm, providing support for clients from all sub-sectors of healthcare. Priscila holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from King's College London, and has spent a year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of her degree.

Hannah joined OHE in September 2020 as an OHE Fellow after completing a MSc in Development Economics at the University of Sussex. Her dissertation focused on investigating the effect of different government responses on COVID-19 deaths. Hannah has previously obtained a BSc in Economics from the University of Exeter and is currently undertaking an MSc in Health Economics at City, University of London. She gained exposure to research and public policy through a summer internship at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Chris has over 20 years of applied health economics experience in consulting and academia. His interests centre on the use of health economics to maximise the societal value of scarce healthcare resources, including the use of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility frameworks to evaluate value-for-money and stated preference methods to elicit patient and public values.