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Establishing the Economic Value of Carbon-Minimal Inhalers
OHE Expert Profile
Anita Charlesworth
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Policy Committee, Research Committee, and Policy Prize Judging Panel
Professor Anita Charlesworth has been a Trustee of the Office of Health Economics since June 2019 and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Policy Committee.
In her main role Anita is the Director of Research and the REAL Centre (Research and Economic Analysis for the Long term) at the Health Foundation, and Honorary Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham.
Anita is a health economist and has a background in government and public policy. Before joining the Health Foundation in May 2014, she was Chief Economist at the Nuffield Trust from 2010–14, where she led the Trust’s work on health care financing and market mechanisms. Prior to that she had roles as Chief Analyst and Chief Scientific Advisor at DCMS (2007–10), Director of Public Spending at the Treasury (1998–2007), and worked as an Economic Advisor at the Department of Health and for SmithKline Beecham pharmaceuticals.
