Rhiannon Tudor Edwards - Research Fellow

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards D.Phil is Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics and the founding Director of the Centre for Economics and Policy in Health, University of Wales, Bangor (www.bangor.ac.uk/healtheconomics). She is a graduate of the University of Wales, University of Calgary, Canada, and The University of York, UK. Rhiannon provides health policy support to the Welsh Assembly Government. Her interests span economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, the impact of political devolution on health policy and she contributes to the policy evidence base for tackling the wider economic determinants of population health. Rhiannon was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Policy 2004-05 and spent her sabbatical at The McColl Institute Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, USA. She studied how health care providers recognise a business case for quality, that is, finding out how employer organisations who offer health insurance address health promotion, and how US health economists have evaluated the cost effectiveness of public health promotion initiatives. In light of the Wanless review of the UK national Health Service in 2004 Rhiannon hopes to bring back lessons for health policy in Wales and the wider UK.