Professor Ed Wilson is a Professor of Health Economics and Health Policy, co-leading the Sustainability theme at the HealthTech Research Centre. He trained in economics at the University of York and holds a PhD in Health Economics from the University of East Anglia. Over the years, he has worked at the Universities of York, Cambridge, and East Anglia, developing expertise in economic evaluation and decision analytic modelling alongside clinical trials.
His research spans multiple disease areas, including diabetes, stroke, dementia, Asperger’s syndrome, asthma, alcohol misuse, lupus, IVF, pregnancy and childbirth, erectile dysfunction, obesity, physical inactivity, essential thrombocythemia, actinic keratosis, prostate cancer, renal cancer, melanoma, ulcerative colitis, cholecystitis, carpal tunnel syndrome and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His methodological research focuses around efficient research design, specifically, value of information analysis, a quantitative approach to setting research priorities making use of uncertainty in the results of economic evaluations to quantify the expected return on investment in further research, and in incorporating negative production and consumption externalities (specifically greenhouse gas emissions) into health technology assessment tools.
