Koonal Shah

Koonal Shah

Principal Economist

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.
 
Recent projects include:
  • A programme of empirical studies exploring societal preferences regarding the value of life-extending, end-of-life treatments. This project was funded by NICE’s Decision Support Unit.
  • A study to develop methods to elicit health state values from the general public in the United Arab Emirates. This project was conducted in collaboration with local academics and the pharmaceutical industry.
  • A workshop for managers at a global pharmaceutical company examining how ‘unmet need’ is defined and applied as a criterion underpinning regulatory and HTA decision making. 
  • A review of evidence on the health-related quality of long-term cancer survivors, and an assessment of implications for future technology appraisals in oncology. This project was commissioned by a pharmaceutical company.
  • Research intended to create an EQ-5D-5L value set for England. This study was funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme of the English Department of Health.
Koonal has a BA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Nottingham, and an MSc (with distinction) in Health Economics from the University of York, and a PhD in Health Economics from University of Sheffield. Prior to joining OHE in 2008, he was a Business Analyst at Capital One in Nottingham. Koonal is a member of the EuroQol Group, and currently serves as co-chair of the Group’s Scientific Plenary Meeting, an annual conference.
 

A selection of Koonal's papers, publications and presentations

Note: OHE publications and working papers are available for download from the Publications section of this website.

Shah, K.K., Tsuchiya, A. and Wailoo, A.J., 2018. Valuing health at the end of life: a review of stated preference studies in the social sciences literature. Social Science & Medicine, 204, pp.39-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.010 
 
Shah, K.K., 2017. Is willingness to pay higher for cancer prevention and treatment? Journal of Cancer Policy, 11, pp.60-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2016.09.006 
 
Shah, K.K., Tsuchiya, A. and Wailoo, A.J., 2015. Valuing health at the end of life: A stated preference discrete choice experiment. Social Science & Medicine, 124, pp.48-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.022 
 
Shah, K.K., Cookson, R., Culyer, A. and Littlejohns, P., 2013. NICE's social value judgements about equity in health and health care. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 8(2), pp.145-165. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133112000096 
  
Shah, K.K., Praet, C., Devlin, N.J., Sussex, J.M., Appleby, J. and Parkin, D., 2012. Is the aim of the health care system to maximise QALYs? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 17(3), pp.157-164. [An earlier version is available on this website as Research Paper 11/03]. https://doi.org/10.1258/jhsrp.2012.011098  
 
Shah, K.K., 2009. Severity of illness and priority setting in healthcare: A review of the literature. Health Policy, 93(2-3), pp.77-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.08.005 
 

  

Koonal's full publication list is available here.