Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Co-Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) at Bangor University, was named in this review as one of the top five most important health economists in terms of publications searched in the field of health economics over this period.
Rhiannon is currently Wales partner lead on a funded Horizon Europe grant of over £4 million, exploring smart capacitating investment in prevention. This is a collaboration across eight European countries. Rhiannon is working closely with Hywel Dda University Health Board, one of four test beds sites across Europe in this study.
Rhiannon has published collaboratively over 400 peer reviewed articles in health economics.
It is about working together. I give full credit to my current research group at CHEME, past students and postdocs who have moved on to other roles at Bangor University, at Welsh Government, and are forging their careers at other health economics centres. As a blind person, I want to thank my reader support worker, Dr Catherine Lawrence, who enables me, along with great reader technology, to work as an academic in this field.
Rhiannon is currently Wales partner lead on a funded Horizon Europe grant of over £4 million, exploring smart capacitating investment in prevention. This is a collaboration across eight European countries. Rhiannon is working closely with Hywel Dda University Health Board, one of four test beds sites across Europe in this study.
Rhiannon has published collaboratively over 400 peer reviewed articles in health economics. She said, “It is about working together. I give full credit to my current research group at CHEME, past students and postdocs who have moved on to other roles at Bangor University, at Welsh Government, and are forging their careers at other health economics centres. As a blind person, I want to thank my reader support worker, Dr Catherine Lawrence, who enables me, along with great reader technology, to work as an academic in this field.”
Health economics is an increasingly important area for Bangor University. Rhiannon will be contributing to the curriculum of students at the new North Wales Medical School, along with teaching at the University of Liverpool, where she is a Visiting Professor. Rhiannon said, “It is important to keep teaching as a senior academic as it leads to future research collaborations”.
All-Wales collaboration in health economics has been made possible through infrastructure funding from Health and Care Research Wales (Welsh Government) via Health and Care Economics Cymru.
