Profile

Biography

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

Helen is Programme Co-Director of the Distance Learning Programmes in Health Economics, and is Programme Leader of the MSc in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment by Distance Learning.

Since joining CHE (1998) Helen has contributed to a range of applied and methodological projects across a broad range of health and 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 interventions.

Currently, Helen is the lead health economist for a range of economic evaluations of social care interventions. Key activities include the design, conduct and analysis of these applied economic evaluations, and related methodological research. Examples of her projects include;

• 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

• 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