Profile

Biography

Helen Weatherly is a Senior Research Fellow and a member of the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment at Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York, UK.

Helen is Co-Director of the Health Economics for Health Care Professionals Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma Programmes and the MSc in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment by Distance Learning http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/distance/. Helen led the development of the MSc in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment by Distance Learning which was launched in 2014.

Since joining CHE (1998) Helen has contributed to a range of applied and methodological projects across a broad range of health and social care areas. She has contributed to technology appraisals involving evidence reviews and economic evaluations for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Her research interests include methods applied for the economic evaluation of social care and public health.

Helen leads the economic evaluation component on projects including;

• An evaluation of a specialist nursing support service for carers of people with dementia
• Social care economic evaluations: current methods gaps and planned methods developments Economic and Methodological Unit in public health and social care for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
• Models of Reablement Evaluation: a mixed methods evaluation of a complex intervention
• Vision rehabilitation services: Investigating the Impacts of Two Service Models
• Summative evaluation of the Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) Programme in the context of wider policy reforms to promote better integrated care and support in England
• Partnerships between deaf people and hearing dogs (PEDRO): A mixed methods realist evaluation

Research

Overview

• Economic evaluations of health and social care interventions, including contributions to several Technology Assessment Reports for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Methods for the economic evaluation of social care and public health intervention

Research group(s)

• Economic evaluation of health technologies

Teaching

Other teaching

• Co-Director: Health Economics for Health Care Professionals Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma Programmes by Distance Learning http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/distance
• 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