Hello everyone and welcome! We are the Edinburgh Health Economics (EHE) group, part of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit (ECTU), and this is our new blog!
In recent years, our enthusiastic team has been growing. We now feel like it is about time that we shared with you, the research community, some of the work that we have been getting up to. For our first post, we thought that the best thing to do would be to get our Team Leader – Peter Hall – to tell you a bit about our group and our new blog.
Pete has been leading the EHE group, which bases itself within ECTU and the Usher Institute, since it was established in 2015. He is a Reader in Cancer Informatics and Health Economics, and practicing Oncologist at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre. When he isn’t treating patients, cycling to and from meetings, he is lecturing medical students, working tirelessly on one of his many research projects and keeping the EHE group on track.
Here’s what Pete had to say:
“It is an enormous privilege every day to hear the great ideas to solve problems in health economics that our group grapples with. Although Health Economists at our heart, we come from diverse backgrounds. This must be one of the reasons why we end up taking quite novel approaches to solve the established challenges of measuring value in healthcare. The environment we operate in with new data science and informatics opportunities in Scotland really gives the best opportunities to allow each of our members to shine.”
“One of our missions at the moment is to reach out to make sure that everyone knows when and how they should think about Health Economics in their research plans. The answer is ALWAYS and AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. We hope that this blog will help you start a conversation with us. We would also love to hear from other Health Economists who share our interests.”
“As we look forward to the continuing development of EHE, the future looks bright! We hope you will join us in following this blog as we share and report on our range of activities. To find out more about our team and the projects we are working on, look out for our ‘Team Spotlight’ posts over the next few weeks!”