Helen Weatherly
Professor

Profile

Biography

Helen Weatherly is a Professor at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York, UK. Having joined CHE in 1998, Helen has been interested in the use of economic evaluation to inform decision-making, with social care and service evaluation as the focus of her current research. Helen’s research interests have covered economic evaluation applied to health care technologies, including evidence reviews and economic evaluations for NICE, and economic evaluation in public health. Helen Co-Directed the University of York’s Distance Learning Programmes in Health Economics (2012 to 2020), leading the development of the MSc by distance learning. She continues to support online teaching, learning and capacity and capability building on CHE’s online short courses through the Health Determinants Research Collaboration North Yorkshire, as well as leading capability building in sub–Saharan Africa.

Examples of her projects include;

• Social Care Economics NEtwork (SCENE)
• Health Determinants Research Collaboration North Yorkshire Council
• Virtual Choirs in Care Homes
• ESSENCE-2: The Economics of Social Care Compendium continuation study
• Unit costs of health and social care
• ENHANCE: End of Life Care for Babies, Children and Young People
• Adult social care partnership: Also called the Curiosity Partnership which is using co-production methods to build, evaluate, undertake and facilitate greater use of research in adult social care
• ACEs: Models of health visiting in England
• GLIDE and the Global Health Economics online forum

Research

Overview

• Economic evaluation in social care
• Economic evaluation in public health
• Methods for the economic evaluation of social care and public health intervention
• Economic evaluation of services to inform decision making

Research group(s)

• Economic evaluation of health technologies

Teaching

Other teaching

• Programme Co-Director of the Distance Learning Programmes in Health Economics, and Programme Leader of the MSc in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment by Distance Learning
• Tutor: York Expert Workshops in the Socio Economic Evaluation of Medicines
• Tutor: Advanced Modelling Methods for Health Economic Evaluation course
• Student supervisor: MSc Health Economics summer placement

External activities

Memberships

• NIHR Research Programme for Social Care Committee (2024 - )
• NIHR School for Social Care Research, Leadership Fellow (2022 - 2024)
• NIHR Policy Research Programme, Policy Research Units, panel member (2022 - 2023)
• NIHR Research for Social Care Committee (2020 - 2024)
• NHSX Artificial Intelligence Award Phase 3-4 Panel Membership (2021 - 2022)
• NIHR Research for Patient Benefit regional advisory panel, West Midlands (2019 - 2023)
• Co-facilitator for CHAIN (Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network) sub-group on Social Care Research and Evaluation (2019 -)
• Scientific Lead on Social Care Methods on Economic and Methodological Unit (EMU) for the NICE Public Health and Social Care Centre (PHSCC), led by York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), University of York (2016 – 2020) 
• Honorary Public Health Academic, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities within the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Formerly Public Health England contract (2017 -) 
• Editorial Board Member of Health Economics Section of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020 - 2024) 
• Review Editor, Cost and Resource Allocation specialty section of Frontiers in Health Services (2021 -) 
• York Carers Centre Board of Trustees, Vice-Chair (2017 -)