Sean Gavan
Research Fellow in Health Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School
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- Alliance Manchester Business School
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Alliance Manchester Business School
Overview
Sean Gavan is a Research Fellow in health economics at the Manchester Centre for Health Economics, The University of Manchester.
Contact Details
| Location | | Email |
| Manchester Centre for Health Economics
Room 4.312, Jean McFarlane Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester
M13 9PL
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| sean.gavan@manchester.ac.uk |
Biography
Sean joined the Manchester Centre for Health Economics in 2013 and has a research interest in the generation of evidence to estimate the relative cost-effectiveness of diagnostic health technologies. Sean is contributing to the economic analysis workstrand of the MASTERPLANSconsortium, funded by the Medical Research Council''s Stratified Medicine Initiative, to produce economic evidence supporting a stratified approach to the management of systemic lupus erythematosus. Sean''s previous research, funded by a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit studentship, developed the economic evidence base for stratified medicine in rheumatoid arthritis and produced an early model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of a biomarker test to stratify biologic therapies.
Research Interests
- Cost-effectiveness of health technologies in rheumatology
- Economics of precision medicine
- Early economic evaluation of health technologies
- Industrial organisation of biopharmaceutical and diagnostic markets
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
- Member of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
- Member of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
- Member of the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA)
- Member of the UK Health Economists'' Study Group (HESG)
- Member of the Emerging European League Against Rheumatism Network (EMEUNET)
- Member of the NHS Health Education England Faculty of Genomic Medicine
- Member of the National Institute for Health Research Faculty
- President of the ISPOR Student Chapter at The University of Manchester, 2015-17
Teaching and Supervision
Doctoral Research Supervision
- PhD Co-supervisor - Leonie Brinkmann (2017-Present)
Doctoral Thesis: What is the Economic Impact of Hazardous Prescribing of Anticoagulants and Does a Pharmacist-led Information Technology Intervention Reduce this Impact?
With: Prof. Rachel Elliott, Prof. Niels Peek, Prof. Darren Ashcroft
Postgraduate Research Supervision
- Postgraduate Dissertation Supervisor - MSc Health Economics, The University of York (2017)
- Postgraduate Dissertation Supervisor - MRes Translational Medicine, The University of Manchester (2016-17)
- Postgraduate Academic Advisor - Masters of Research Programme in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (2016-17)
Taught Academic Modules
- Teaching Assistant - Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine (MEDN67372), MSc Genomic Medicine & CPD Workshop (2016-17)
- Teaching Assistant - Health Economics (MEDN60092), MPH Public Health (2014-15)
- Teaching Assistant - An Introduction to Population Health - Coursera MOOC (2015)
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Doctoral Thesis: An Economic Evaluation of a Biomarker Test to Stratify Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis)
- MSc Health Economics (Distinction)
- MSc Economics (Distinction)
- BA (Hons) Economics for Business (First Class)
Research Networks and Beacons
Biology, Medicine and Health (BMH) Domains
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