Professional Qualifications and professional memberships

• BA (Hons) Economics  (first class), University of Northumbria, 1991
• MSc. Health Economics (merit pass), University of York, 1992.

Research interests

• benefit valuation for health and safety, preference elicitation and utility assessment.
• willingness to pay and relative valuation techniques to aid priority setting.
• methodological issues surrounding QALYs- including whether QALYs should be weighted according to who gets them. 

Career summary

• MRC Training Fellow in Health Services Research and Health of the Public, and  Senior Research Associate (health economics), University of  East Anglia,  2001-2004
• MRC Training Fellow in Health Services Research and Health of the Public, and  Senior Research Associate (health economics), Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 2000-2001.
• Research Associate, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 1996- 2000.
• Research Associate, Dept of Economics, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 1993- 1996

Prior to undertaking my first degree, I worked as a physiological measurement technician in the NHS for a number of years.

• BA (Hons) Economics  (first class), University of Northumbria, 1991
• MSc. Health Economics (merit pass), University of York, 1992.

• Angela is one of the partners in European value of a quality adjusted life year (EuroVaq) project funded by the EU. The project is using several different approaches to elicit public willingness to pay for health improvements and to estimate the WTP for a QALY in 10 partner countries. We are hoping to achieve 3500 completed interviews in each partner country. 
• A current project commissioned by the Home Office is to review the status of the  value of a QALY the HO currently use in their estimation of the value of preventing violent crime (currently 81K per QALY gained).
• Other projects include assessing the costs and benefits of cardiac event recorders in stroke and TIA patients and an economic evaluation of supervised consumption in patients on opiate maintenance treatment. 

Selected publications

• Baker, R, Robinson A and Smith R, How do respondents answer WTP studies: A review of the qualitative evidence, Journal of Socio Economics, published online 17^th May (2007).
• Spencer A and Robinson A, Utility independence when health varies over time, Journal of Health Economics, 26, 1103-1013, (2007).
• Robinson A and Spencer A, Exploring challenges to TTO utilities: Valuing States worse than dead, Health Economics, 15 393-402 ( 2006).
• Baker R. and Robinson A, responses to Standard gambles: Are preferences ‘well
• Health Economics, 13 37-48 (2004).
• Robinson A. and  Parkin, D., Recognising diversity in public preferences: The use of
• Preference sub-groups in cost-effectiveness analysis.  A response to Sculpher and Gafni. Health Economics, 2002, 11: 649-651.
• Dolan P. and Robinson A., The Measurement of Preferences over the Distribution of Benefits: The importance of the reference point. European Economic Review, 45, 1697-1709, 2001.
• Robinson A., Loomes G., Jones-Lee M., Visual analogue scales, standard gambles and relative risk aversion.  Medical Decision Making, 2001, 21: 17-27
• Thomson R, Robinson A, Greenaway G, Lowe P, Development and description of a decision analysis based decision support tool for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2002, 11: 25-31.
• Robinson, A., Thomson R., Parkin D., Eccles M., Sudlow M.,  How patients with atrial fibrillation value different health outcomes: a standard gamble study.  Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2001, 6 (2) 92-98                                         
• Robinson A., Thomson R,  Variability in patient preferences for participating in medical decision making: the implication for the use of decision support tools,  Quality in Health Care, 2001, 10.

Health Economics (HEG)

Risk & Decision Making (IoH)

• Joint responsibility (with Ric Fordham) for design and delivery of Health Economic component of MBBS. 
• PBL Tutor for MBBS

• Year two social science representative

• Personal advisor, MBBS