Dr. Joanna Coast

Biography

Joanna Coast is a Professor of Health Economics at the University of Bristol, with a strong focus on the theory underlying economic evaluation and the development of broader measures of outcomes in health care decision making. Her expertise includes capability approaches, particularly the ICECAP suite of measures, and the economic analysis of antimicrobial resistance and end-of-life care. Joanna has held a Wellcome Investigator Award aimed at developing a life-course approach to measuring capability in economic evaluation of health and social care interventions, which includes the development of ICECAP measures for children and young people. She has authored and edited significant works in the field of health economics, including the book 'Qualitative Methods in Health Economics', published in July 2017. Joanna also co-directs the MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy Analysis at the University of Bristol, having begun in September 2022, and has supervised numerous doctoral students, maintaining a supervision of four ongoing. Additionally, she serves as a Senior Editor for 'Health Economics' and 'Social Science & Medicine' and has held external positions such as Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham until December 2021. Her research interests place her as an international authority in the use of qualitative methods in health economics.

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