Dr. Jane Wolstenholme

Biography

Jane Wolstenholme is an Associate Professor in Health Economics at the University of Oxford, possessing over 25 years of experience in conducting economic evaluations for health policy makers. Her expertise lies in exploring methodological issues in the design and analysis of economic evaluations. With a background as a health economist at the Health Economics Research Centre since 1998, her research program focuses on health economics in cancer, including trial-based evaluations and methodologies related to prostate, breast, and head and neck cancers. She has published extensively on economic evaluations of interventions for various cancers such as prostate, breast, cervical, and lung cancer. Her primary research interests revolve around the design and conduct of economic evaluations alongside trials, and she also works on cost-effectiveness modeling. In her role as principal investigator and co-applicant, she has led a variety of funded research projects across disease areas including health care technologies, chronic kidney disease, obesity, and mental health. Additionally, she serves as a senior health economics adviser for the NIHR RSS and leads health economics at the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Oxford. Dr. Wolstenholme supervises MSc and DPhil students and is a co-author of the major textbook 'Applied Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care'.

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