HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: THE HEALTH ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE

Tony Culyer is also a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York, England.  Tony is founding co-editor of the Journal of Health Economics and was the founding Organiser of the world's first association of health economists (HESG in the United Kingdom) in 1970. He has served on many journal editorial boards in health economics, medicine, medical ethics, social science and medical law, and has published over 250 articles and more than two dozen books. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1994 Tony authored the "Culyer Report" supporting research and development in the NHS. In 1999 Tony was the founding vice-chair of NICE. He is chair of the Office of Health Economics (London) and was until 2010 Chair of the Canadian Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's Research Advisory Council (Toronto). In 2003-6, he was Chief Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health (Toronto). Between 1992 and 1997 he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at York and his research took a bit of a nose-dive. His main research interests since then continue to be the development of the extra-welfarist approach to health service evaluation, the integration in decision making of ethical considerations beyond those embodied in ‘efficiency’, and the design of procedures and institutions that promote ‘good’ decisions.