Welcome Professors Claire Hulme and Richard Smith - Sep 2018

The Health Economics Group are pleased to welcome Professors Claire Hulme and Richard Smith to the University of Exeter Medical School.

Professor Claire Hulme joins the Health Economics Group, University of Exeter Medical School from the University of Leeds, as Professor of Health Economics. Claire has published over 100 research papers and received grants from major funders across health and social sciences. Claire’s background and interests lie in complex interventions (specifically those which span the health and social care sectors) with interlinked interests in health inequalities particularly informal care and the impact of ill-health on employment. Her research includes a wide range of methodologies including economic evaluation, large data analysis and use of qualitative methods in health economics. She has been a member of a number of national funding panels including the NIHR HTA Commissioning Board, NIHR Research for Patient Benefit North East panel and, most recently, the NIHR School for Social Care Research Selection Panel. Claire currently sits on the HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme Clinical Lectureship and Senior Clinical Lectureship Schemes Review Panel and will sit on the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Social Care Competition Panel later this year.

Professor Richard Smith joins University of Exeter Medical School from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter Medical School, and Professor of Health Economics. Professor Smith’s research interests include the economic impact of health issues and innovations worldwide. Richard’s research has included the monetary value of health to macro-economic modelling of health (care); the political-economy of trade and trade agreements; the development of a range of economic approaches, including willingness-to-pay, the ‘capability’ approach as an alternative evaluation paradigm, global public goods, and macro-economic modelling; the determinants of the demand for food, the global market in food products and the interface between agriculture and health.

Date: 30 September 2018