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Professor of Health Economics and Co-Director of
CHEME
NISCHR Senior Faculty Member
Honorary contract with NHS Public Health Wales
Honorary member of Faculty of Public Health
Commonwealth fund Harkness fellow 04/05 –
presenting Harkness Alumni Policy Forum July 2014,
Washington DC
Member of American Public Health Association,
presenting New Orleans, November 2014
Email - r.t.edwards@bangor.ac.uk
Twitter - @ProfRTEdwards
• Health Economics is the study of how we use scarce resources
to meet our healthcare needs
• Public Health Economics is the study of how public sector
agencies (e.g. NHS and local government) who can influence
our health, use resources to promote better health
CHEME public health economics research group:
My colleagues:
Nathan Bray
Jo Charles
Carys Jones
Huw Lloyd-Williams
Seow Tien Yeo
Neil Harold
Ann Bowden Lawton
Alison Shaw
Jackie Williams- Bulkeley
PhD students:
Lucy Bryning
Laura Budd
James Burrows
Sharon Hadley
Ned Hartfiel
Sadia Nafees
Research themes:
A life course approach in Public Health economics e.g. cost
effectiveness of IY parenting; economic evaluation of mindfulness in
schools and the workplace; economic evaluation of interventions to
support people with dementia and their carers
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Funding:
NISCHR, NIHR, HTA, CRUK, Tenovus
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Collaborators:
NWORTH Trials Unit, North Wales Centre for Primary Care
Research, Wales Centre for Behaviour Change, School of Psychology
Collaboration within CoHaBS
DSCD- Dementia Research
REACH
External collaborators Wales, UK, USA
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Cost –effectiveness Analysis
Cost-benefit Analysis
Cost-utility Analysis
Cost-consequence Analysis
Social Return on Investment
These provide a systematic, explicit and transparent way
of setting out costs and outcomes of investing scarce
resources in interventions to prevent ill health and
disability. They can be applied to many population or
patient groups, settings and organisations.
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Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis
(PBMA)of ministerial budget of health
improvement programme (£17 million)
BCUHB PBMA of respiratory services across
North Wales
Planned work:
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Social Return on Investment of Codi To,
Maesgeirchen, Bangor, in collaboration with Schools
of Music and Psychology
Economic benefits of fire prevention in North Wales
Economic evaluation of Wylfa Newydd
Publications:
 Edwards et al.: Cost-effectiveness of a national exercise
referral programme for primary care patients in Wales:
results of a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health
2013 13:1021.
 Murphy S, Edwards, RT, Williams N, Raisenen L, Moore G,
Linck P, Hounsome N, Ud Din, N, and Moore L. (2012). An
evaluation of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the
National Exercise Referral Scheme in Wales, UK: a
randomised controlled trial of a public health policy
initiative Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200689
Impact:
 Evidence considered by NICE in exercise referral schemes to
promote physical activity, due September 2014
Short Course:
 Health Economics for Public Health practice and
research, Management Centre, March 23-25th, 2015
Book:
 5th in the series: Handbooks in Health Economic
Evaluation. Editors : Rhiannon Tudor Edwards
and Emma McIntosh. Applied Health Economics
for Public Health Practice and Research. Oxford
University Press. Planned publication date January
2016