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Nancy is Professor of Health Economics at the University of Melbourne and Senior Fellow at the Office of Health Economics, London. From 2024 she commenced a new role as Editor-in-Chief at Value in Health. Her principal areas of research expertise are the measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes; the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgments about value for money in health care; and priority setting in health care. Nancy has published >200 original journal articles on a wide range of empirical and theoretical topics in health economics, and is co-author of Economic Analysis in Health Care, a leading textbook on health economics widely used in the UK and elsewhere. In 2024, Nancy was ranked 3rd in the world’s ‘Highly Ranked Scholars’™ (Scholar GPS) in Health Economics based on productivity, impact and research quality. Her work was highlighted in the UK’s NIHR 10-year anniversary report, which noted ‘The impact of her research is worldwide and highly significant in improving health and health care decision making’. Her research, submitted as a case study to the UK’s 2014 REF exercise, was judged by the sub-panel as ‘demonstrating very considerable impact in terms of reach and significance'. She was the lead investigator on QUOKKA, a multi-million dollar programme of research on health outcomes in children, funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (Australia) (2020 – 2024), results from which have been described as “…a huge leap forward for the field of health-related quality of life measurement in child health.” She currently serves as the elected Chair of the Board of the EuroQol Research Foundation (2021-present). Nancy was the 2019/20 elected international President of ISPOR, the peak international professional society for health economics and outcomes research. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne in 2019, Nancy was Director of Research at the Office of Health Economics, London for ten years, leading the development of its research programme that culminates in OHE achieving Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status in 2019. Prior to OHE she was Professor of Economics at City University of London, where she held the positions of Head of the Economics Department and Dean of Social Sciences. She has 40 years of experience as a researcher and as an advisor to health care organisations in the public and private sectors, in the UK and internationally.