Rachel Baker
Rachel Baker is a Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University. She has a BA in Economics and Social Policy and a PhD from Newcastle University.
In her doctoral work, funded by the UK Medical Research Council, she applied Q
methodology and qualitative methods to theories of rationality in the context of health and lifestyle choices. Her Post Doctoral Fellowship was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and included 3 months as a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Rachel’s research has focussed on the use of mixed methods to elicit societal values with respect to health care resource allocation. Given a fixed budget, the National Health Service must make choices about which health services to fund and, by implication, which will not be funded. Whilst measurement of the costs and benefits of different technologies is crucial to such decisions, there are also implications for the distribution of resources across members of society, and economically efficient choices may not always be regarded as equitable.
Rachel has used Q methodology to investigate societal perspectives about the principles underlying health care resource allocation as part of national and international research projects investigating the social value of Quality-adjusted life years, led by Professor Cam Donaldson (see http://research.ncl.ac.uk/eurovaq and
http://www.hta.ac.uk/project/1578.asp). She has expertise in the use of health economic approaches to valuation and preference elicitation including Willingness to Pay, Standard Gamble and Person Trade off techniques.
In collaboration with colleagues at GCU, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Rachel led a 3 year research project funded by the UK Medical Research Council. The project builds on work developing Q survey methods to investigate views about the relative, social value of end of life technologies.
More recently she has contributed to research connecting the activities of social enterprises and microfinance organisations to the health and wellbeing of people living on low incomes. She leads the Common Health Assets research project funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research https://www.commonhealthassets.uk/
She has published research papers in Social Science and Medicine, Health Economics and the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy and Associate Editor of Health Economics.
In her doctoral work, funded by the UK Medical Research Council, she applied Q
methodology and qualitative methods to theories of rationality in the context of health and lifestyle choices. Her Post Doctoral Fellowship was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and included 3 months as a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Rachel’s research has focussed on the use of mixed methods to elicit societal values with respect to health care resource allocation. Given a fixed budget, the National Health Service must make choices about which health services to fund and, by implication, which will not be funded. Whilst measurement of the costs and benefits of different technologies is crucial to such decisions, there are also implications for the distribution of resources across members of society, and economically efficient choices may not always be regarded as equitable.
Rachel has used Q methodology to investigate societal perspectives about the principles underlying health care resource allocation as part of national and international research projects investigating the social value of Quality-adjusted life years, led by Professor Cam Donaldson (see http://research.ncl.ac.uk/eurovaq and
http://www.hta.ac.uk/project/1578.asp). She has expertise in the use of health economic approaches to valuation and preference elicitation including Willingness to Pay, Standard Gamble and Person Trade off techniques.
In collaboration with colleagues at GCU, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Rachel led a 3 year research project funded by the UK Medical Research Council. The project builds on work developing Q survey methods to investigate views about the relative, social value of end of life technologies.
More recently she has contributed to research connecting the activities of social enterprises and microfinance organisations to the health and wellbeing of people living on low incomes. She leads the Common Health Assets research project funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research https://www.commonhealthassets.uk/
She has published research papers in Social Science and Medicine, Health Economics and the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy and Associate Editor of Health Economics.
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