Professor Anthony Culyer CBE

BA(Exeter), Hon DEcon(Stockholm School of Economics)

Profile

  • Co-editor, Journal of Health Economics
  • Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  • Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Research Professor Health Policy and System Design, University of Toronto
  • Former Head of Department of Economics & Related Studies, and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of York
  • Chair, R&D Committee of the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (he is the former founding Vice Chair of NICE)

Research interests

Health and equity maximising decision making in health care systems: the roles of evidence in decision processes and the use of cost-effectiveness algorithms and decision rules.

Selected Publications

Full details of publications can be found at RePEc

A J Culyer “Need - an instrumental view” in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan (Eds.) Principles of Health Care Ethics, 2nd Edition, Chichester: Wiley, 2007, 231-238.

A J Culyer “Equity of what in health care? Why the traditional answers don't help policy - and what to do in the future” Healthcare Papers, 2007, 8(Sp): 12-26.

A J Culyer, C McCabe, AH Briggs, K Claxton, M Buxton, RL Akehurst, M Sculpher and J Brazier. “Searching for a threshold, not setting one: the role of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence”, Journal of Health Service Research and Policy, 2007, 12: 56-58.

W B F Brouwer, A J Culyer, N Job, A van Exel, F F H Rutten. “Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism”, Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27: 325–338.

K Claxton, A J Culyer. “Not a NICE fallacy: A reply to Dr Quigley”, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008, 34: 598-601.

C McCabe, K Claxton, A J Culyer. “The NICE cost effectiveness threshold – what it is and what that means,” PharmacoEconomics, 2008, 26: 733-744.

E Tompa, A J Culyer, R Dolinschi. (Eds.) Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Occupational Health and Safety: Developing Good Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.