External Publications
Establishing a Reasonable Price for an Orphan Drug
11 September 2020
Berdud, Drummond and Towse (2020) propose a method for establishing a reasonable price for an orphan drug. Assuming prices for drugs are set according to incremental…
Augmenting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Uncertainty: The Implications for Value Assessment—Rationale and Empirical Support
14 April 2020
Research by OHE and the University of Washington into how uncertainty-related novel elements of value could be included in an Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis has been published…
Financing and Scaling Innovation for the COVID Fight: A Closer Look at Demand-Side Incentives for a Vaccine
1 April 2020
A COVID-19 vaccine is needed now, but timelines (12-18 months) create large market risk. By the time a vaccine is ready, the crisis may have passed.…
Unpacking the Black Box of Payer Policy: A Demand-Side Approach for Equitable Uptake of Cost-Effective Health Innovation
21 February 2020
People living in Middle and Low Income Countries (MLICs) do not get access to innovative treatments and new treatments meeting MLIC requirements do not come to…
A Final MVAC Blueprint—and the Start of an R&D Revolution?
6 February 2020
TB kills 1.6m people annually – the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The Market-Driven, Value-Based Advance Commitment (MVAC), creates and guarantees a market for better TB treatment.…
Chronic Diseases and the Stock of Health: Quantification Using EQ-5D-5L
15 October 2019
Chronic diseases affect individuals’ health status and its impact is reflected by the stock of health, which measures the amount of health of a population in…
Patient Preferences for Diagnostic Tests Aimed at Managing Antimicrobial Resistance
7 October 2019
Research by OHE and the University of Sussex into patients’ preferences for diagnostic tests aimed at reducing antimicrobial resistance has been published in Applied Health Economics…
Can Conventional Blood Tests Predict Future Disability Risks?
25 September 2019
New research published in Economics and Human Biology demonstrates that elevated blood tests and nurse-collected physical measures predict progression to disability two to four years ahead…
The Value of International Volunteers’ Experience to the NHS
24 April 2019
A new paper by OHE and Health Education England on the value of international volunteers’ experience to the NHS has been published in Globalization and Heath.