Professor Luke Vale
Lead Investigator
Professor of Health Economics
Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
Email: luke.vale@newcastle.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 208 5590
Luke is a researcher with an international reputation in economic evaluation and health technology assessment and have contributed significantly to the growth in the use of systematic reviews and economic modelling in this field. This expertise is built on over 20 years of health economics experience.
He is currently a Professor of Health Economics a post previously funded by the Health Foundation, where he leads the Health Economics group at Newcastle University and the Health Economics and Evidence Synthesis Research Theme.
He is the Chairman of the joint economic methods group of the international Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations (http://methods.cochrane.org/economics/) which develop the methods and conduct systematic reviews of interventions in health care and other policy areas. He is also co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Incontinence Review Group and editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group
Luke has considerable managerial and supervisory experience including most recently as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Health & Society. He also has a proven record in attracting research funds, completing projects to a high standard and in a timely fashion. He has extensive links with policy makers and researchers throughout the UK and internationally and was economic advisor the recent Topol review on digital medicine. The total value of competitive peer reviewed funding he has been awarded is in excess £100 million including a substantial number as Principal Investigator. In addition, he has a strong publication record well over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 4 books, 15 book chapters and over 100 other significant reports.
Key research interests are:
- Economic evaluation as part of randomised controlled trials and Health Technology Assessments for national and international agencies
- Use of economic evaluation techniques in the design of complex interventions and health technologies
- Development of methods for the incorporation of discrete choice experiments and willingness to pay estimates into economic evaluation
Area of expertise:
- Health economics
- Health technology assessment
- Economic evaluation