Koonal Kirit Shah, BA, MSc

E-mail: k.k.shah@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I am a part-time MPhil/PhD student at ScHARR (under the supervision of Dr Aki Tsuchiya and Dr Allan Wailoo), and a health economist at the Office of Health Economics, a research and consultancy organisation based in London.

My PhD research considers the role of social value judgements in health care decision making, with particular focus on the social value of health gains accruing to individuals at the end of life.

Research interests

My research interests are:

• measurement and valuation of health
• empirical ethics
• evaluation of end of life care

Professional activities

Health Economist, Office of Health Economics (October 2008 – present)

Key publications

• Garau M, Shah KK, Mason AR, Wang Q, Towse A, Drummond MF. Using QALYs in cancer: a review of the methodological limitations. Pharmacoeconomics (in print).
• Praet C, Shah KK, Devlin NJ, Sussex J, Appleby J, Parkin D. Is the aim of the health care system to maximise QALYs? An investigation of “what else matters” in the NHS. Paper for the Health Economics Study Group meeting, University of York, January 2011.
• Sussex J, Shah KK. The publicly funded vaccines market in the UK. OHE Consulting Report 10/01; 2010.
• Sussex J, Shah KK, Butler J. The publicly funded vaccines market in Australia. OHE Consulting Report 10/02; 2010.
• Shah KK. Severity of illness and priority setting in health care: a review of the literature. Health Policy 2009;93:77-84.