Tony Culyer
Emeritus Professor

Profile

Biography

Anthony (Tony) Culyer, CBE, BA, Hon DEcon, Hon FRCP, FRSA, FMedSci, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics & Related Studies and the Centre for Health Economics. He has spent his career since 1969 at York. He is also a senior research fellow at the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation in the University of Toronto (Canada) and has been a Visiting Professor at University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Trent University, Canada; Imperial College London; Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung, Munich, Germany; Central Institute of Technology, New Zealand; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa: Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Chief Scientist, Institute for Work & Health, Canada. He was chair of the Workers’ Compensation Board Research Committee in Toronto. At York, Tony was Head of DERS from 1986 to 2001 and Pro- and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor between 1991 and 1997. He was the founding co-editor with Joe Newhouse of the Journal of Health Economics and the founding Organiser of the Health Economists’ Study Group.

He was the founding Vice Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and chaired the International Decision Support Initiative – the successor to NICE International. Until recently he chaired the Office of Health Economics in London. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and until recently was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a
Commander of the British Empire and has an honorary doctorate from the Swedish School of Economics. Recent honours include Emmett Hall Laureate and Hall Lecturer, Canada; William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, USA; International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award.

He is an amateur church musician and was a trustee of the Royal School of Church Music for several years.

Research

Overview

My main research interests are in health economics, deliberative decision making and health and health care in low- and middle-income countries.

Publications

Selected publications

A selection of recent publications

A J Culyer. “Cost, context and decisions in health economics and cost-effectiveness analysis”, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2018, 34: 434-441.

A J Culyer. “Perspectives in Health Technology Assessment”, AMA Journal of Ethics. 2021, 23: E619-623. 

A J Culyer. “Questions of fairness: a Socratic approach”, in Fairness and Equity in the NHS, Eds. Mike Thomas & Gabrielle Haskins, London: Routledge, 2024.

A J Culyer. 101 Apt Aphorisms for Health Economists. 101 Apt Aphorisms for Health Economists (PDF , 201kb)

A J Culyer. An Economist’s Pithy Personal Prejudices: apt aphorisms in various forms on various topics. An Economist’s Pithy Personal Prejudices: apt aphorisms various (PDF , 1,124kb)

For the full list of publications, please use the button to access the York Research Database above.