Melody Russell
Holmfirth,Yorkshire
Summary
Analytical economist with expertise in health economics and data science, experienced across pharmaceutical consultancy and the Department of Health and Social Care. Advanced skills in R and Power BI for large-scale data analysis and visualisation. MSc Health Economics.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work history
Economic Analyst
Department of Health and Social Care
Leeds
08.2024 - 07.2025
- Mental Health analysis team.
- Selected for Data Science Accelerator; developed R-based logistic regression model on 80,000+ patient records across multiple data tables.
- Cost benefit analysis for the Mental Health Bill Impact Assessment, receiving a Green RPC rating.
- Enforced data governance in NHS Secure Data Environment; managed data access controls, versioning (Git), and compliance with government statistical standards.
- Delivered data engineering tasks: cleaning, transforming, and dashboarding large datasets using R and Power BI; built reproducible analytics pipelines. Analysed patient level data to feed into policy costings.
- Maintained monthly Power BI dashboards and automated R reporting pipelines for senior stakeholders.
- Line managed a data science intern and delivered training for 55+ junior analysts.
- Coordinated cross team collaboration in a multidisciplinary team of economists, statisticians, data scientists and social researchers.
- Badged member of the Government Economic Service
Assistant Economist
Department of Health and Social Care
Leeds
10.2023 - 08.2024
- Medicines and Pharmacy Analysis
- Applied R to monitor medicine shortages and model economic impacts of policy changes.
- Delivered multiple prescribing impact assessments and supported supply chain business cases.
- Gained operational insights through MedTech and pharmaceutical site visits.
- Badged member of the Government Economic Service
Health Economist
Tolley Health Economics
Buxton, Derbyshire
08.2022 - 09.2023
- Developed cost-effectiveness and budget impact models in excel and R supporting NICE and SMC submissions for Health Technology Assessment.
- Successful NICE Highly Specialised Technology submission for rare paediatric treatment.
- Used clinical trial data for models. Conducted systematic reviews, stakeholder interviews, and expert elicitation where clinical trial data had gaps.
- Presented research at ISPOR Europe.
Research Placement
Imperial College London
06.2021 - 09.2021
- Awarded first-class research project using STATA to model socioeconomic determinants of health in HIV.
Education
MSc - Health Economics
University of York
/2020 - /2021
BSc - Economics
Newcastle University
/2017 - /2020
Skills
- Software & Coding: Advanced data analysis with R, STATA, Power BI, Excel; Git version control; SQL (basic), Python (familiar) Experienced working with large NHS datasets (>1M records) within secure environments
- Analysis: Cost-effectiveness analysis, budget impact modelling, econometrics
- Collaboration & Leadership: Stakeholder engagement, conference presentations (ISPOR), intern line management, training delivery
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Economic Analyst
Department of Health and Social Care
08.2024 - 07.2025
Assistant Economist
Department of Health and Social Care
10.2023 - 08.2024
Health Economist
Tolley Health Economics
08.2022 - 09.2023
Research Placement
Imperial College London
06.2021 - 09.2021
MSc - Health Economics
University of York
/2020 - /2021
BSc - Economics
Newcastle University
/2017 - /2020
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