Meet the Team

Professor Graham Cookson is Director Designate at the Office of Health Economics, and will take over the role of Director from Professor Adrian Towse on 1st January 2019.

Graham is an econometrician by training and is interested in the use of big data in health and life sciences research. His current research interests include the measurement and determinants of productivity in healthcare especially labour productivity; the industrial organisation of healthcare especially tariffs and competition; real-world evidence in health economic evaluation; and big data in the health and life sciences. He is best known for this work on the economics of staffing and skill mix in the English NHS, and this research was critical to the development of the NICE Guidelines on Safe Staffing.

Nancy's principal areas of research expertise are the measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes; the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgments about value for money in health care; use of MCDA in health care decision making; priority setting in health care; and measuring the production, performance and efficiency of hospitals.

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

Yan is currently leader for the Incentivising Quality theme. Her research interests include the patients reported health outcomes measurements, evaluation of health policy, compe-tition in hospital market, healthcare supply in primary care, and applied micro-econometrics in health economics research.

Claire's key responsibility is time management and administrative support for the Directors. Prior to joining the OHE in 2008, Claire worked as a PA for Halcrow Group Limited for three years where her responsibilities included providing PA support to the regional managing director. Claire has a degree in psychology.

Amy joined OHE at the start of June 2017. Her role involves providing general office support to the team, data collection and reporting at the organisational level, assisting with the production of publications, maintaining the organisations’ website, posting regular updates on social media, and helping co-ordinate promotional activities.

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.

Marina’s research interests focus on the evaluation of healthcare programmes’ effectiveness, focusing on quality of life factors that impact budgets and decision making. She is also interested in the economics of health care systems in emerging markets.

Koonal's research interests include health state valuation methodology and the use of social value judgements in health care decision making. He has published over 30 journal articles and book chapters on these topics, and has led research and consulting projects for health care providers, research foundations, policy makers and global pharmaceutical companies.