Sarah Willis BA MSc

Research Fellow

My first degree was a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economic from the University of York where I stayed on to take an MSc in Health Economics. I undertook a summer placement at NICE in 2006 where I wrote my dissertation on the budget impact of NICE guidance on the NHS. I joined the Health Services Research Unit in 2006 as a research assistant.

Affiliation

Teaching

I am a seminar leader for the Economic Evaluation module on the MSc in Public Health. I have previously led seminars on the Introduction to Health Economics module.

Research

I am currently working on two projects. MapGUIDE is an MRC-funded project looking at the feasibility of developing whole pathway models within the context of NICE clinical guidelines, and in particular whether this can feed into the decision of whether to update an existing guideline. The second project is an economic evaluation alongside SUPREMO, a multi-centre international RCT investigating the use of post-mastectomy radiotherapy.

I have previously worked with other health economists in HSRP on NICE clinical guidelines, in collaboration with the National Collaborating Centre for Cancer (NCC-C) based in Cardiff. I developed economic models for the Lung cancer and Advanced Breast cancer guidelines, which led to my interest in methods of evidence synthesis in decision modelling.

Research areas

  • Clinical guidelines
  • Economic evaluation

Disciplines

  • Economics

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Cancer
Back to top