ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research Recipient Andrea Manca, MSc, PhD
Andrea Manca (MSc Health Economics and PhD Economics; York, UK) is Senior Research Fellow in the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment - led by Professor Mark Sculpher – part of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York (UK). His research interests include the application of statistical methods for the analysis of cost effectiveness and health outcomes data, as well as the use of evidence synthesis techniques for health care decision making. In 2007 Andrea completed a post doctoral Research and Training Fellowship in Health Services Research awarded by The Wellcome Trust, to investigate the use of statistical methods for the analysis of multicentre and multinational individual patient level cost effectiveness data with the objective to inform reimbursement decisions in different jurisdictions. As part of his Fellowship, Andrea spent a six month visiting period at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto (Canada). Andrea has evaluated health technologies in several clinical areas including breast and advanced colorectal cancer, endovascular aneurysm repair, coronary revascularisation, diabetes, neck and chronic low back pain, surgical interventions for urinary stress incontinence, and hysterectomy. Andrea is a member of the faculty of the York Expert Workshops in the Socio Economic Evaluation of Medicines and serves as co-editor of the scientific journal Value in Health. |
Manca A, Lambert PC, Sculpher MJ, Rice N (2007) Cost-effectiveness analysis using data from multinational trials: the use of bivariate hierarchical modelling, Med Decision Making 2007;27:471-90.