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NEW Staff to the Unit in 2019

Research Fellows

Michael Abbott joined HERU as Charlotte Kennedy joined HERU
a Research Assistant in November as a Research Assistant under the
2019. He is currently involved in Assessment of Health Technologies
the creation of a health economic theme. Currently, she is involved
model to assess the cost- in the critical assessment of the
effectiveness of whole genomic economic methods used in the
sequencing for rare disorders. single technology assessment of
enzalutamide with ADT for treating
metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Current PhD Students

Mélanie Antunes# Huixuan Gao#
Thesis Title: ‘Public and patient Thesis Title: ‘The value and costs
preferences for social prescribing’ of unpaid care for older people in
Supervisors: Verity Watson, Marjon China’
van der Pol (HERU) Suzanne Supervisors: Paul McNamee and
Robinson and Richard Norman Attakrit Leckcivilize (HERU).
(Curtin, Australia).

Ni Gao Emma Tassie
Thesis Title: ‘Thriving not surviving following a breast Thesis Title: ‘Incorporating broader measures of value into
cancer diagnosis: what can time allocation tell us?’ economic evaluation through the use of existing data’
Supervisors: Mandy Ryan, Nicolas Krucien (HERU), Supervisors: Verity Watson, Graham Scotland and
Suzanne Robinson and Richard Norman (University of Stirling Bryan (HERU).
Curtin, Australia).
Uma Thomas
Divya Mohan Thesis Title: ‘Using insights into time preference and
Thesis Title: ‘Informing ‘realistic medicine’: can present bias to develop an intervention to improve
economic evaluations account for heterogeneity in care adherence to exercise’
preferences?’ Supervisors: Marjon van der Pol (HERU) and Julia Allan
Supervisors: Graham Scotland (HERU), Sebastian (Health Psychology, University of Aberdeen).
Heidenreich (Evidera and HERU) and Craig Ramsay
Xuemin Zhu
(HSRU).
Thesis Title: ‘The role of the physician’s risk and time
Ruben Sakowsky preferences and personality in clinical decision making’
Thesis Title: ‘Our values or mine? A philosophical and Supervisors: Marjon van der Pol (HERU), Anthony
empirical critique of deliberative and stated preference Scott (University of Melbourne) and Julia Allan (Health
elicitation techniques in health economics’ Psychology, University of Aberdeen).
Supervisors: Mandy Ryan (HERU) and Vikki Entwistle
# denotes PhD commenced in 2019
(National University of Singapore).

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