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Professor Christopher McCabe

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Christopher McCabe

Professor Christopher McCabe

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

My research has 3 main themes:
1) The design of efficient research development in the life sciences to promote the development of high value technologies reaching market at financially sustainable prices offering a commercially attractive return on investment.
2) Modelling the interaction between health and health care policies and other socio-economic objectives to improve the evidence base for crisis management strategies such as the COVID pandemic.
3) Design of methods and processes for the managed adoption of high risk high value health technologies which are aligned with financial sustainability for comprehensive population health care systems

Contact info

  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 1605

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Early Health Technology Assessment
  • Measurement and Valuation of Health Related Quality of Life
  • Value of Information and analysis of uncertainty
  • Design of innovative market access and reimbursement models for health technologies

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Organising committee Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, London, 2023
  • Various advisory roles Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Care (CADTH) 2015 to 2018
  • Various advisory roles National Institute of Health and Care Excellence
  • Member, Technical Working Group Patented Medicines Price Review Board (2018 to 2020)
  • Capital Health Endowed Research Chair, University of Alberta (2011 to 2021)
  • Founding Director NICE Decision Support Unit (2002 to 2006).
  • Founding Director, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds, (2007 to 2011)

Research students

Iain Duffin, Policy Impact of economic trials of eye care interventions. 2022 to 2025 Northern Ireland


Alumni: Where are they now

Dr. Mike Paulden, 2013-2016, Canada, Associate Professor of Health Economics, University of Alberta

Dr. Negar Razavilar, 2014 - 2020, Canada, Health Economist, Institute of Health Economics

Dr. Peter Hall, 2008 - 2012, United Kingdom, Reader, Reader and Medical Oncologist, University of Edinburgh


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