Brendan Collins PhD ,MSc

Brendan Collins is a health economist specialising in public health. He is interested in food policy, health inequalities, quality of life, well-being, CVD, cancer, and substance use. He has worked as a health economist in the NHS, academia, and in local authorities. His PhD was in health economics and management studies and was around combining realist evaluation with economic modelling to evaluate public health programmes. He has led economic modelling work for NICE and has an honorary post with Public Health England to collaborate on local applications for the global burden of disease (GBD). He has sat as an expert member on a NICE Public Health Advisory Committee. He currently working on projects funded by NIHR, the US National Institutes of Health, and the British Heart Foundation