Alastair Fischer appointed as Senior Visiting Fellow at OHE

Alastair Fischer has recently been awarded an honorary position as Senior Visiting Fellow at OHE.

Alastair Fischer has recently been awarded an honorary position as Senior Visiting Fellow at OHE. 

Alastair worked with OHE as Principal Health Economist throughout 2016. Prior to this he worked at NICE for a number of years, on both Technology Appraisals and Public Health guidelines. Alastair has worked in academia and the civil service in both Australia and the United Kingdom as a statistician and economist.

We are delighted that Alastair will have an ongoing role with OHE, so we can continue to benefit from his depth of experience in HTA, public health and microeconomics. In his new role, Alastair will be supporting the research of the OHE team, as well as pursuing a research agenda on:

• An overarching decision-theoretic approach to all aspects of healthcare evaluation, encompassing both HTA and public health interventions (see Fischer and Ghelardi, 2016; Threlfall et al., 2015; Fischer et al., 2013).
• The role of social value judgements in zero cost interventions that are not deemed cost effective.
• The cost effectiveness of attempts to reduce substance misuse, along with co-authors from University of Liverpool and NICE Public Health Guidelines.
• The evaluation and kite-marking of health apps by NICE or elsewhere before their large-scale provision by the NHS (see McNamee et al., 2016).

Alastair is also an Associate Editor of the online journal Frontiers in Public Health Policy.

For further information please contact Nancy Devlin at OHE.