University of Birmingham (UK)

Stirling.Bryan@ubc.ca

Research Interests
economic evaluation and health technology assessment; preference elicitation and outcome measurement; the use of economic analyses in decision-making

During the 2005-06 academic year, Stirling Bryan was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, who conducted research based at CHP/PCOR, under the leadership of center director Alan Garber. His research project was, "The Use of Cost-Effectiveness Information in Coverage Policy Decisions in the U.S. and the U.K." Bryan is a professor of health economics at the University of Birmingham (U.K.) and holds the recently created second chair in health economics at the university. His research interests lie broadly in the areas of economic evaluation and health technology assessment from applied and methodological perspectives, and include preference elicitation and outcome measurement, and the use of economic analyses in decision-making. He has published extensively in these areas.

Bryan directs the University of Birmingham's M.Sc. Programme in Health Economics and Health Policy, run by the Health Services Management Centre. He is also a member of the U.K. Medical Research College of Experts, and sits on the Appraisal Committee of the U.K. National Institute for Clinical Excellence. He previously served as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Health and Policy Studies at the University of Calgary (Canada) and a research fellow in the Health Economics Research Group at Brunel University. He received a BSc in economics from the University of Salford, an MSc in health economics from the University of York, and a PhD in economics from Brunel University. In 2003, he received a first prize award at the International Health Economics Association's 4th World Congress, for a paper titled, "Cost-effectiveness in Clinical Trials: Using Imputation to Deal with Incomplete Cost Data."

Other affiliations
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (UK)