The November issue of the HERU Newsletter has been published. The newsletter has details on three current PhD projects in HERU and one recently completed project, and updates from recent events, recent presentations and staffing news - including the retiral (and move to Emeritus Professor) of Bob Elliott.
The PhD projects highlighted include a recently completed PhD by Rodolfo Hernández on broadening the valuation space in health technology assessment, using a case study of monitoring people with ocular hypertension. The on-going projects highlighted are Emma Tassie's PhD, which is just beginning, on incorporating broader measures of benefit in economic evaluation using a welfarist framework, as opposed to an extra-welfarist approach; Alistair Irvine's research on patient and doctor interactions and inconsistencies in time preference; and Ruben Sakowsky's work on how deliberative processes can be incorporated into health preference elicitation. This project builds on the work of the late Professor Gavin Mooney and is funded by the Gavin Mooney Studentship.