OHE Welcomes Charlesworth and Mays to its Editorial Board

Composed of academics and thought leaders from within and outside the UK, OHE’s Editorial Board has provided advice and guidance to the OHE’s peer-reviewed publications programme since the 1960s. In January 2014, Anita Charlesworth, Chief Economist at the Nuffield Trust, and Professor Nicholas Mays, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joined the Board.

Composed of academics and thought leaders from within and outside the UK, OHE’s Editorial Board has provided advice and guidance to the OHE’s peer-reviewed publications programme since the 1960s.

In January 2014, Anita Charlesworth, Chief Economist at the Nuffield Trust, and Professor Nicholas Mays, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joined the Board. Professor Tony Culyer has stepped down as chair of OHE’s Editorial and Policy  Boards, positions he held for 16 and 12 years, respectively. He continues as a member of each board. Tony has been succeeded by Professor Michael Drummond, Centre of Health Economics, University of York.

Anita Charlesworth joined the Nuffield Trust as Chief Economist in 2010 and leads the Trust’s work on health care financing and market mechanisms. Before that, she held posts in both the public and private sector. Anita is Vice Chair of NHS Islington, a Trustee of Tommy’s (the baby charity), a non-executive director of the Whittington NHS Trust, and a member of the EPSRC Societal Issues Panel. She also is a member of the Outcomes Framework Technical Advisory Group, the Social Investment Advisory Group and the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit Advisory Group. Anita was a member of OHE’s 2011-12 Commission on Competition in the NHS.

Nicholas Mays is a Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) where he directs the Policy Research Unit in Policy Innovation, a collaboration between LSHTM, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Imperial College, and other leading health research institutes. Before LSHTM, Nick held positions in the NHS in England, in academic health services research (Universities of Leicester and London, and Queen’s University Belfast), at the King’s Fund, and as a policy adviser with the New Zealand Treasury. Nick also co-edits the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy.