New Members joined the EuroQol Group Association
The Executive Committee of the EuroQol Group is delighted to announce three new members of the EuroQol Group Association.
- Dr. Richard Xu – Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Alice Yu – Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics and Research Evaluation (CHERE), University of Technology Sydney
- Cate Bailey – Senior research fellow at Melbourne Health Economics, the University of Melbourne.
Dr. Richard Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research centers on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), well-being, psychometrics, health preferences, patient-reported outcome measures, and outcomes assessment. He has extensive expertise with EuroQol instruments, including the EQ-5D-5L, EQ-HWB, and EQ-5D-Y, through studies on psychometric properties, recall periods, content validity (e.g., in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and rare diseases), population norms in Hong Kong/Chinese contexts, head-to-head comparisons with other measures (e.g., ReQoL-UI, ICECAP-A, SF-6Dv2), and applications in general and patient populations.
Dr. Alice Yu is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics and Research Evaluation (CHERE), University of Technology Sydney in Australia. She is currently engaged in two main streams of work: mixed methods work to explore valuation approaches for the development of EQ-5D value sets and mixed methods work to explore transitions between different EQ-5D instruments across the lifespan. Dr. Yu completed her PhD in 2021 and specializes in choice modelling. In her PhD, she investigated the impact of methodological design decisions in discrete choice experiments (DCEs) and its impact on health preferences in different populations and in health state valuation contexts.
Dr. Cate Bailey is a Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne Health Economics, the University of Melbourne. Dr. Bailey’s research focusses on measuring outcomes for economic evaluation, specific to social care and caregiver quality-of-life. Recent work has focussed on validation of the EQ-HWB. Dr. Bailey holds a master’s degree in applied statistics, and PhDs in Forensic Psychology and Health Economics.