Donna Rowen BA, MSc, PhD (Sheffield)

HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
UK

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Telephone: (+44) (0)114 222 0728
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 4095

E-mail: d.rowen@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I joined HEDS as a health economist in September 2006. Prior to joining HEDS I worked as a teaching assistant in Economics at the University of Sheffield whilst undertaking a PhD in Economics.

Research interests

My research interests are:

• Measuring and valuing health and quality of life
• Modelling preference data
• Mapping between measures of health
• Methodology of developing preference-based measures of health from existing measures

Teaching interests

My teaching interests lie in health economics, in particular QALYs, utilities and outcome measurement.

I am interested in supervising research students in topics/areas related to measuring and valuing health, in particular deriving, estimating and using utility data for health technology assessment.

Professional activities

Since joining ScHARR I have worked on a variety of projects including an MRC methodology project on using ordinal methods of preference elicitation to map between EQ-5D, HUI2, SF-6D, AQL-5D, OPUS and ICECAP. I have recently completed an MRC-NIHR Methodology Programme project on developing and testing methods for deriving condition-specific measures of health from existing condition-specific measures to estimate QALYs. I have also recently completed NICE DSU technical support documents for estimating utilities focussing on mapping and alternative measures to EQ-5D. I have worked on several projects mapping between outcome measures of health and deriving condition-specific preference-based measures from existing measures.

Current projects

I am currently working on the following projects:

• Measuring and valuing intersector effects for economic evaluation as part of EEPRU, the Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions
• DEMQOL, a Health Technology Assessment project on dementia
• Developing a preference-based outcome measure for epilepsy funded by Epilepsy Research UK
• Developing a preference-based outcome measure for diabetes
• PRET, an MRC methodology project undertaking a preparatory study for the re-evaluation of the EQ-5D tariff
• NICEQOL, an MRC methodology project examining the use of generic and condition-specific measures in NICE decision-making

Key publications

• Rowen D, Brazier J, Tsuchiya A, Hernandez Alava M. Valuing states from multiple measures on the same VAS: A feasibility study. Health Economics, forthcoming.
• Rowen D, Mulhern B, Banerjee S, van Hout B, Young TA, Knapp M, Smith SC, Lamping DL, Brazier JE. Estimating preference-based single index measures for dementia using DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy. Value in Health, forthcoming.
• Rowen D, Brazier J. Tsuchiya A, Young T, Ibbotson R. (2012) It's all in the name or is it? The impact of labelling on health state values. Medical Decision Making, 32(1), 31-40.
• Rowen D, Brazier JE, Young TA, Gaugris S, Craig BM, King MT, Velikova, G. (2011) Deriving a preference-based measure for cancer using the EORTC QLQ-C30. Value in Health, 14(5), 721-731.
• Brazier JE, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A, Yang Y, Young T. (2011) The impact of adding an extra dimension to a preference-based measure. Social Science and Medicine, 73(2), 245-253.
• Rowen D, Brazier J, Roberts J. (2009) Mapping SF-36 onto the EQ-5D index: how reliable is the relationship? Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 7:27