Mark Harrison

Biography

Mark received a first class honours degree in Business and Management Sciences from the University of Bradford Management School in 2000 and an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. In 2002 he joined the Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit at The University of Manchester as a Research Assistant. His initial work centred on projects exploring the socioeconomic inequalities in outcomes in people with rheumatoid arthritis, the running and analysis of a national rheumatology consultant workforce register with a focus of inequalities in provision, and the analysis of a randomised controlled trial. In 2004 he registered for a part-time PhD assessing the validity of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) when applied to people with rheumatic diseases, in particular preference-based measures for use in economic evaluation. Alongside his PhD programme he continued to work projects in rheumatoid arthritis centred on studies of drug safety and the prediction of treatment outcomes. Mark was awarded his PhD in 2008.

Research Interest

Health Economics