Henry Nwankwo

Assistant Professor in Health Economics & Senior Research Fellow, Evidence Review Group

Research

• Lead the methodological design of health economic work packages in clinical trials and global health financing projects to further strengthen microeconomic analysis.
• Utilize statistical and analytical software packages such as Excel, STATA, and R to perform econometric analysis and decision modeling with research data and extensive government datasets.
• Adapt and create decision models to extrapolate the temporal cost-effectiveness estimates to inform long-term decision making.
• Apply advanced analytic skills to critically appraise the cost-effectiveness of new medical technology and its impact on commissioned services, informing health and budget policy of the United Kingdom.

Communication & Publication

• Communicate complex economic findings to non-specialist decision makers and stakeholders across the private and public sector to inform decision making.
• Publication of the results of numerous clinical and health economic analysis in various peer-reviewed journals
• Develop and publish comprehensive Health Technology Assessment reports for UK policy makers presenting clear and concise findings to inform government decision making.

People management

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify appropriate analytic methods to address key research questions and inform business strategy.
• Supervise and support Research Associates and Research Fellows in effectively undertaking diverse economic evaluation and providing methodological guidance on appropriate econometric and decision analytic techniques.
• Support post graduate students on dissertation projects, leading to successful publications in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

Teaching & mentorship

• Teach health economic concepts and principles of decision modelling to students.
• Develop and design novel courses for the university to support a range of undergraduate and post-graduate courses.

• Independently managed administrative aspects of doctoral research to obtain favorable internal and external ethical review.
• Proactively identified and addressed administrative and ethical barriers to participant recruitment to facilitate research procedures.
• Communicated findings of doctoral research at economic conferences, academic symposiums and non-specialist audiences

• Led the HIV prevention and management programme among senior military officers to ensure compliance with national guidelines and targets.
• Identified and resolved unexpected results, directing secondary testing measures and collection efforts.
• Performed pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical processing procedures.

• Analyzed and reported samples of blood and tissue for specific chemicals using automated testing procedures.
• Inspected bodily fluids and tissues to detect infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
• Gathered and evaluated quality assurance data to identify issues and improve process efficiency.
• Collaborated with PEPFAR to diagnose and manage pregnant women at high risk of HIV infection leading to a significant and sustained reduction in HIV prevalence from 9.8% to less than 2%.