Han-I Wang
Research Fellow

Profile

Biography

Han-I is a research fellow in the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group (MHARG). She completed her Doctorate in health economics at the University of York in 2011 and worked in the Epidemiology & Cancer Statistics Group (ECSG) (2011-2019) before joining MHARG in 2019.

Han-I specialises in cost analysis, health outcome research and decision modelling using complex patient level data. Her main research interests are in the exploration of different decision modelling techniques and their application to predict healthcare expediture, patients' quality of life and life expectancy. Han-I has research experience on various disease areas and works closely with academic research teams and government bodies both inside and outside the University.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of York
• MSc, Taipei Medical University

Research

Overview

Health economic and econometric research, including

• Economic evaluation and health outcome research using complex patient level data 
• Applications and methodological issues in decision modelling/simulation research
• Methodological and applied issues in costing research
• Applications of statistical/econometric models in health outcome research using observational data
• Patient treatment pathway research
• End-of-life care and place of death research

Projects

• Haematological Malignancy Research Network (HMRN)
• MDS-RIGHT
• Facilitating informed decision-making in haemato-oncology (Improving Patient Information)

Research group(s)

• Mental Health and Addiction

Supervision

Han-I would be interested in supervising or co-supervising Masters and PhD students in the following areas: cost analysis, health outcome research and different types of decision modelling/simulation.

Publications

Full publications list

• Han-I Wang's publications

External activities

Memberships

• Member of the End-of-life and Palliative Care Steering Group Committee
• Reviewer for NIHR grants (since October 2014)

Invited talks and conferences

Inivited Talks/Seminars

• 09/2016 Invited speaker, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan: NHS in the UK
• 01/2016 Invited speaker, Bocconi University, Italy: Discrete event simulation
• 09/2015 Consultant, National Health Insurance Administration, Taiwan: Decision modelling
• 01/2014 Invited speaker, National Health Insurance Administration, Taiwan: Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in the UK
• 01/2014 Invited speaker, National Institute of Health Technology Assessment, Taiwan: Micro-costing methods
• 05/2013 Workshop, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan: Constructing Markov model in Excel
• 05/2013 Invited speaker, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan: Long-term medical costs and life expectancy of acute myeloid leukaemia
• 11/2012 Invited speaker, University of Oslo, Norway: Decision modelling in excel, using “long-term medical costs and life expectancy of acute myeloid leukaemia" as an example

 Conferences

• 21st ISPOR Annual International Meeting (May 2016)
• 18th ISPOR Annual European Congress (Nov 2015): poster award
• 17th ISPOR Annual European Congress (Nov 2014)
• 16th ISPOR Annual European Congress (Nov 2013)
• 15th ISPOR Annual European Congress (Nov 2012)
• 5th ISPOR Asia Pacific Conference 2012 (Sep 2012)

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Contributing lecturer to the Health Economics module (Masters in Applied Health Research)