Dr Katherine Stevens, BSc, MSc (York), PhD (Sheffield)

Senior Research Fellow

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

Office: 2011

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0841
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

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

Biography

I spent 4 years at the University of York, studying firstly for a BSc in Economics, followed by a Masters in Health Economics. I joined the former Sheffield Health Economics Group in October 2000 and am now part of the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section. In August 2005 I was awarded an MRC Special Training Fellowship in Health Services and Health of the Public Research. The award was for three years and I developed a preference based paediatric generic health related quality of life measure for use in economic evaluation, the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D). Further details can be found here. In 2009 I was awarded an ESRC/MRC/NIHR Early Career Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Economics of Health to further develop and apply the CHU9D. Previous work in the area of the measurement and valuation of health includes a UK valuation study of the Health Utilities Index (HUI) II, and developing a preference based measure of quality of life for children with atopic dermatitis.

Research interests

My research interests are:

• The measurement and valuation of paediatric health
• The use of qualitative methods in the development of preference based outcome measures
• Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials

Teaching interests

My teaching interests lie in economic evaluation and outcome measurement and valuation.

I am interested in supervising Research Students in the area of outcome measurement and valuation with particular interest in the use of qualitative methods.

I currently teach on the Masters in Public Health www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/prospective_students/masters/mph

Professional activities

MRC Post Doctoral Fellow

Paediatric quality of life - The CHU9D

Board Member - Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (CSCY)

CSCY

Current projects

I am currently working on the following projects:

• Application of a new paediatric preference based health related quality of life measure; the Child Health Utility 9D. (ESRC/MRC/NIHR Early Career Post Doctoral fellowship in Economics of Health)
• A multi-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial comparing structured education (the KICk-OFF course) with standard care in 11-16 year olds with Type 1 Diabetes (T1DM) on intensive insulin therapy. (Diabetes UK)

Key publications

• Stevens KJ. Assessing the performance of a new generic measure of health related quality of life for children and refining it for use in health state valuation. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 2011; 9(3);157-169
• Stevens KJ. Working with children to develop dimensions for a preference-based, generic, pediatric health-related quality-of-life measure. Qualitative Health Research 2010;20:340-51.
• Stevens KJ. Developing a descriptive system for a new preference-based measure of health-related quality of life for children. Quality of Life Research 2009;18(8):1105-13.
• Stevens KJ, McCabe CJ, Brazier JE, Roberts J. Multi-attribute utility function or statistical inference models: a comparison of health state valuation models using the HUI2 health state classification system. Journal of Health Economics 2007;26(5);992-1002.
• Stevens KJ, McCabe C, Brazier J. Mapping between Visual Analogue Scale and Standard Gamble data; Results from the UK Health Utilities Index 2 valuation survey. Health Economics 2006;15(5):527-33.
• Stevens KJ, Brazier JE, McKenna SP, Doward LC, Cork MJ. The development of a preference-based measure of health in children with atopic dermatitis. British Journal of Dermatology 2005;153:372-7.