Linda Davies

Linda Davies is Reader in Health Economics at The University of Manchester, and Director of the Health Economics Research at Manchester group (HERMAN). She leads the Valuation and Evaluation Research Theme, which is part of the Nowgen research programme. Linda has a BA in Economics and an MSc in Health Economics.

Since graduating from York University in 1984, she has worked extensively in the field of economic evaluation of health and social care interventions. This includes the design of economic and clinical trials to evaluate new health and social care interventions, and the systematic synthesis of existing evidence using systematic review and modelling techniques.

Linda moved to Manchester in 2000, from the Centre of Health Economics at the University of York, to develop a new group of researchers in economic evaluation. Her main interests are the measurement of people’s preferences for the process and outcome of health and social care, and valuation of the relative importance of preferences for different aspects of those outcomes. This includes the design and implementation of research to explore values for the distribution of health gain from total joint replacement; the development of value- and preference-based measures for psychosis and arthritis; and the development of the Nowgen valuation and evaluation research theme to assess the health, social and economic outcomes of clinical genetics services and value societal preferences for those outcomes.