The University of Sheffield
Health Economics and Decision Science

Current Students

Below is a list of the current PhD students and staff candidates within HEDS and their topics.

Candidate Supervisor/advisor Topic area
N Bansback J Brazier, A Tsuchiya A Comparison of Condition Specific Versus Generic Health State Utilities in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
J Carlton E Kaltenthaler, J Brazier Development of a paediatric disease specific HRQoL measure in amblyopia
H Cowan A Tsuchiya, A O'Cathain Differences between the valuations of the general public and patients
J Chilcott R Akehurst Roles of mathematical modelling in health technology assessment
I Mavranezouli J Brazier Development of a preference based measure for patients with depression for use in an economic evaluation
C Mukuria J Brazier, A O'Cathain The relationship between health status and well-being
Chris Skedgel R Akehurst, A Wailoo A comparison of conjoint analysis and person trade-off approaches to eliciting decision maker preferences
S Paisley J Brazier Identifying evidence for decision-analytic models
P Tappenden A Brennan, J Chilcott
R Akehurst




The use of cancer service simulation models to inform resource allocation decisions
C Tilling A Tsuchiya, J Brazier Income losses in health state valuations
Armando Vargas-Palacios M Stevenson, A Duenas, A Wailoo The development of a cost-effectiveness model of the A (H1N1) flu vaccine
Penny Watson A Brennan The use of Bayesian statistics in health economic and clinical trial simulation
Y Yang J Brazier , A Tsuchiya Developing condition-specific preference-based measures of health