Simon McNamara

PhD, MSc, MSc, BSc

School of Medicine and Population Health

Honorary Research Fellow

Simon McNamara
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sjmcnamara1@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Simon McNamara
School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
΢Ȧ
S1 4DA
Profile

I am an Honorary Research Fellow at ScHARR, and Consulting Director at BresMed: a health economics and outcomes research consultancy based in ΢Ȧ. 

My research is primarily focused on the development of health economic evaluation methodology. This includes work on the ways in which inequalities in lifetime health might be captured within economic evaluation; the development of methods to enable surrogacy relationships to be integrated into economic models; and the application of real-world data within oncology modelling.  

I hold a PhD in Public Health Economics and Decision Science from the University of ΢Ȧ, an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York, an MSc in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BSc in Economics from the University of York. In addition, I have twelve years’ experience working as a health economist: six years in the pharmaceutical industry and six years in consulting.

Research interests

My primary research interests are:

  • The development of methods designed to enable inequalities in lifetime health to be captured in economic evaluation 
  • The application of surrogacy relationships within health economic modelling 
  • The use of real-world data in oncology modelling.
Teaching interests

I have previously taught on the MPH module “Economic Evaluation and Health Care Financing”; the MBChB module “Critical Numbers” – a course on medical statistics; and “Measuring and Valuing Health” – a ScHARR massive online open course.