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ALT Mark Sculpher Mark is Professor of Health Economics and Director of CHE. He has been involved in health technology assessment and economic evaluation for 35 years including membership of NICE’s Technology Appraisal Group, Public Health Advisory Group and Diagnostic Advisory Group. He has also advised NICE and other HTA decision making bodies on economic evaluation methods.
ALT Laura Bojke Laura is Professor of Health Economics. She leads the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment in CHE. Laura has worked in HTA and economic evaluation for nearly 25 years. She has worked across a wide range of applied and methodological projects, across Pharmacoeconomics and Public Health, in the UK and globally.
ALT Marta Soares: Marta is Professor of Health Economics in CHE. Her research focusses on the development and application of statistical, econometric and decision analysis methods in all components of health technology assessment, including statistical analysis of primary data, evidence synthesis, elicitation of expert opinion, decision modelling methods and value of further research analysis.
ALT Beth Woods: Beth is a Senior Research Fellow in CHE. Beth has worked on economic evaluations of a range of technologies, including the application of advanced statistical and decision modelling methods. Beth has also contributed to methods in the field, in particular relating to model structuring in oncology, evaluation of pharmaceutical pricing policy, and evaluation and pricing of technologies to address antimicrobial resistance.
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ALT Topic 4: Machine Learning for Causal Inference in Health Policy Assessment for Decision Making.
ALT Topic 5: The use and impact of Digital Health Technologies in mental health care service delivery in the English National Health Service.
ALT Topic 6: Understanding lifecycle medicines value.
ALT Topic 7: Exploring the value of in-silico trials in Health Technology Assessment and policy.
ALT CHE PhD Studentship Opportunity 2026/27. Applications close at 4pm (UTC) on 30 January 2026. Apply now!
ALT Topic 1: Socioeconomic inequalities in unmet needs for mental healthcare.
ALT Topic 2: Leveraging routine data and generic decision models to inform rapid evidence-based decision making.
ALT Topic 3: Preventive care and the use of mental health services.
ALT Graphic in orange. The text reads: New blog. Can wearable technology save lives without overtaxing our healthcare systems? YHEC CEO, Professor Matthew Taylor, shares his personal account of a life-saving diagnosis prompted by a smartwatch. Drawing on both evidence and experience, he asks the critical question: When do wearables add value?. There is a picture of Matthew Taylor running a race. The YHEC logo is in top right hand corner.
ALT A close-up photograph of a blue asthma inhaler resting on a wooden table, surrounded by various blister packs of pink and green tablets and a white pill bottle. A dark green overlay at the bottom contains the white text: "CHE RESEARCH SUMMARY" in large bold letters, followed by a smaller line of text: "Why more effort is needed to improve the use of asthma treatment".
ALT Promotional image for the University of York's Centre for Health Economics (CHE), showing a woman writing on a whiteboard behind a graphic of a magnifying glass. The text highlights CHE's role in "SHAPING HEALTH ECONOMICS POLICY," noting the launch of two NIHR-funded research programmes and contribution to two Policy Research Units (PRUs) in 2024.
ALT An ambulance is parked outside a modern-looking hospital or medical building with large windows and wood accents. The foreground is dominated by a large, bright yellow, rounded rectangle containing black text. The text reads: "CHE RESEARCH PAPERS" followed by the subtitle: "Do hospitals exhibit efficiency differences justifying local price variation? A retrospective study of lengths of stay for renal transplant in NHS England."
ALT A graphic with a deep purple background. On the right, a photograph of Professor Rowena Jacobs, a woman with long brown hair, wearing a black blazer over a patterned top, is shown. On the left, a quote in white text reads: "Physical illnesses tend to affect mainly people at older ages, whereas mental health problems arise earlier, particularly during working age. That changes everything from an economic point of view." Below the quote is the attribution: "Professor Rowena Jacobs, Deputy Head of Department for CHE." In the upper right corner are the logos for the University of York and the Centre for Health Economics (CHE).
ALT A blue and pink graphic from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) announces a vacancy for the Chair of the NIHR Policy Research Programme Funding Committee. It includes a call to "Apply now."
ALT Graphic in green, white and blue advertising a presentation at a conference. The wording reads “Presentation: A Change in Setting, a Change in Value: A Diagnostic Case Study. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Diagnostics, Digital, Data and Devices Research Forum 2025. There is a headshot of Hayden Holmes, with the wording: “Hayden Holmes. Director of Digital Health Technologies Consulting” The YHEC logo is in the bottom right hand corner.
ALT "Promotional image for the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, announcing 'CHE's Annual Report 2024.' The image features a large title and the text: 'Explore how CHE is shaping the way society thinks about resource allocation in health and healthcare.' A screenshot of the report's cover, which is blue with '2024' on it, is shown on a smartphone. The report is available at york.ac.uk/che/outputs/."
