Chris Skedgel
Dr Chris Skedgel has over 25 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. He has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications on topics including cost-effectiveness evaluations, preference studies, methodological contributions and invited editorials.
He sits on the editorial board of Pharmacoeconomics and is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Health Economics Group at the University of East Anglia, UK. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Economics, Medical University of Vienna in the 2024/25 academic year. He has been a Lead Economic Reviewer for the pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review (pCODR) and the Canadian Common Drug Review (CDR) and has led the development of NICE submissions in a previous role.
Chris has a PhD in Health Economics & Decision Science from The University of Sheffield and a master’s degree in Development Economics from Dalhousie University, Canada.
Publications and Insights
- Insight: Around the World in HTAs: Canada – Autonomous yet Collaborative
- Publication: Understanding societal preferences for priority by disease severity in England & Wales
- Publication: Incorporating the Patient Voice in Health Technology Assessment
- Publication: Individual, Health System, and Societal Impacts of Anti-seizure Medicine Use During Pregnancy
- Publication: The Burden of Hidradenitis Suppurativa on Patients, the NHS and Society
- Insight: Caring about Carers: Improving Consideration of the Burden of Informal Caring in HTA
- Publication: After the Transplant: Potential Benefits for the NHS and UK Kidney Transplant Patients
- Publication: A Case Study Analysis: Challenges in the NICE Evaluation of Multi-Indication Medicines for Rare and Ultra-Rare Diseases
- New: Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Healthcare
- Publication: Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Healthcare
- Publication: Ethical and Economic Issues in the Appraisal of Medicines for Ultra-Rare Conditions