
Emeritus Professor
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Biography
Mandy is Emeritus Professor at the Health Economics Research Unit. She joined HERU in 1987 after graduating from the University of Leicester with a BA (Hons) in Economics and the University of York with an MSc in Health Economics. In 1995, she graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a PhD in Economics concerned with the application of contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health economics. In 1997, Mandy was awarded a five-year Medical Research Council Non-Clinical Senior Fellowship to develop and apply Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE) in healthcare. In 2002, she was awarded a Personal Chair in Health Economics by the University of Aberdeen and in 2006 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Mandy was Director of HERU from April 2013 to July 2024.
Mandy's research interests focus on taking a person-centred approach to valuation in health economics. She is known for her work challenging the clinical approach to valuation that is often adopted by health economists and for developing alternative person-centred approaches. She introduced DCEs into health economics in the early 1990s and her research has applied DCEs in a wide range of contexts to take account of the user preferences in the delivery of healthcare.
Latest Publications
Beyond the Diagnosis: Valuing Genome-Wide Sequencing for Rare Disease Diagnosis Using Contingent Valuation
Applied Health Economics and Health PolicyContributions to Journals: ArticlesPatient Preferences for HR+/HER2‒ Early Breast Cancer Adjuvant Treatment: A Multicountry Discrete Choice Experiment
Breast CareContributions to Journals: ArticlesStakeholder prioritization preferences for individuals awaiting hip and knee arthroplasty: THE PRIORITIZATION OF THOSE AWAITING HIP AND KNEE ARTHROPLASTY (PATHWAY) STUDY
The Bone & Joint Journal, vol. 107-B, no. 1, pp. 89–96Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Gift of Time, How Do I Want to Spend It? Exploring Preferences for Time Allocation Among Women with and without a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 112776Contributions to Journals: ArticlesiDiabetes platform-enhanced phenotyping of patients with diabetes for precision diagnosis, prognosis and treatment: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled study in Tayside, Scotland
BMJ Open, vol. 14, no. 11Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086594