I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Centre for Health Economics.

I work in evidence synthesis and decision-analytic modelling, with a particular interest in the joint analysis of interacting decision-points in clinical pathways. I like developing approaches, tools and templates that help people approach these endeavours in consistent and reliable ways. I also have an interest in data visualisation and other techniques for communicating the structure and outputs of complex decision-analytic models to nonexperts.

Before joining the University of Manchester, I spent a decade working for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). I was the lead health economist on about 30 clinical guidelines, reviewing evidence and developing original cost-effectiveness models to support decision-making committees comprising clinical and patient experts. I estimate that I have contributed to around 200 national policy meetings of one type or another, mostly in the position of defending original analysis that I have conducted or overseen. My previous professional history includes time at the University of Exeter and some experience in medicolegal research.