John Cairns
MA MPhil FRCP(Hon)
Professor
of Health Economics
John Cairns graduated MA(Hons) in Economic Science from the University of Aberdeen. After a year of graduate study at the University of York he spent two years as a research fellow in the Institute for Social and Economic Research. This was followed by a return to the University of Aberdeen where he spent eleven years as a lecturer in the Department of Economics. In 1989 he took up a post as senior research fellow in the Health Economics Research Unit and was appointed director in 1993. He was awarded a personal chair in 2002. He took up his current post in May 2004. He was a member of the NICE technology appraisal committee 2003-2020. He joined the NICE diagnostics advisory committee in 2020.
Affiliations
Teaching
In 2021-22 lecturer on MSc Public Health modules Introduction to Health Economics, Economic Evaluation and Environmental Health Policy. Lecturer on the certificate in Pharmacoepidemiology. Tutor on the distance learning module Economic Evaluation. Lecturer on Evidence-Based Public Health Policy & Practice.