Prof Nancy Devlin

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Editor in Chief at Value in Health, Board chair at EuroQol Research Foundation, Rotterdam & Professor of Health Economics at University of Melbourne. Proud mum of three wonderful adults and grandma to two very energetic tiny humans.

Highlight points from a new paper summarising established and new tools for measuring and valuing health related quality of life, developed by a not for profit organisation called the EuroQol Research Foundation.
Image is copyright to Jane Doe/ Shutterstock. Shows a cartoon image of Donald Trump with a signed Executive Order
just a big yellow-coloured number 6.0
abstract of a new paper just published in Value in Health, May 2025, Twenty-Four Years After the Launch of the EU Orphan Regulation: Analyzing Dutch Price Dynamics, Biosimilars, and Generics for Orphan Medicinal Products
abstract of a new paper in Value in Health, May 2025, by Mireia Jofre-Bonet and colleagues about the effect of biosimilars on prices in the US
highlight points from a paper published in Value in Health, looking at how well women are represented in authorship of papers submitted and accepted by the journal.
screenshot of an editorial in the May 2025 issue of Value in Health. The paper discussed what the term 'Whole Health' means and discuses some of the implications for how we evaluate costs and benefits.
Photo of author and researcher Mary Ziegler being interviewed on CNN about her new book, 'Personhood: the new civil war over reproduction'.
A picture taken by Nancy Devlin of the books she has most enjoyed reading in the last 6 months. Careless People; Nothing to see here; The Royal Free; Butter, All Fours; and Character Limit.
Picture of an Easter egg hidden in a pile of autumn leaves in New Zealand. Whereas Easter coincides with spring in the northern hemisphere, in the southern hemisphere it occurs in Autumn, when there are falling leaves and pumpkins and bonfires.
Figure from a paper published in Value in Health. The Figure shows how patient reported outcomes data was used In clinical consultations, via a Dashboard.
programme entry for the ISPOR May 2025 conference in Montreal, describing a session which will debate the use of cost benefit analysis in health technology assessment.
screen shot of the programme for ISPOR Montreal, May 2025, showing the session details for Value in Health Editors in Child having a fireside chat with the lead authors of the Papers of the Year in 2024 and 2023.
An advertisement for the Reading to Dogs programme at Wanaka Library. I'm sure the dogs like it, but the main point is to help children improve their literacy in a non-judgemental environment. That's probably why it's not Reading to Cats. Cats judge.
screen shot of the title page of an article in the April issue of Value in Health. The paper is called 'Role of health equity in HTA: a landscape analysis of 13 health systems in Asia'.
The abstract and highlight points for a paper published in Value in Health, called "How do individuals value worse than dead EQ-5D-5L health rates in composite TTO Tasks? A qualitative study".
screen shot of a task, called composite TTO, used to elicit values for health states that are considered either 'better than dead' or 'worse than being dead'
screenshot of the cover of the peer reviewed journal called 'Value in Health'.
A photograph of an autumn scene, showing Lake Hayes, looking toward Queenstown, in the South Island of New Zealand. About as far away from the madness going on in the US as you can get. Photo taken by Nancy Devlin.
screen shot showing the announcement of the iHEA student prize winners, and showing details of 2025 1st prize winner Marie-Anne Boujaoude , PhD student from University of Melbourne.
screen shot of the 'highlight points' from a paper published in Value in Health about how to interpret whether changes in patient reported health, measured by EQ-5D, are 'important and meaningful'.
screen shot of a pdf of a paper published recently in the journal Value in Health. The paper, by Sarah Bates and co-authors, reports an economic evaluation of the costs and benefits of a classroom management intervention aimed at children 3-8 years old.
a group photo of attendees at the 2025 EuroQol Academy meeting in Barcelona.
The video shows a conference poster, which includes a moving 3D graph. The various figures and 3D graph show alternative ways in which EQ-5D data can be used to show health inequalities.
screen shot from a LinkedIn page, showing a series of cards, each showing a researcher's picture and a short bio about their work. The cards were made by students at the Universite Catholique de Louvain.
a screenshot of a webpage inviting papers to be submitted to the journal "Value in Health", reporting systematic literature reviews and other kinds of evidence synthesis on any topic in the field of health economics and outcomes research.
image shows a screenshot of a webpage, inviting researchers to submit papers to the journal Value in Health on the topic of 'Digital Health Technologies: examining Value, Regulation and Equity'.
A picture of the Reading Room at London's Wellcome building, with historical medical artefacts and artworks at ground level, and bookshelves on the floor above.
screen shot of a webpage inviting researchers to submit an abstract - and eventually a paper - to the journal Value in Health, on the topic of Health Equity: Methods and Measures for Equity Informative Evaluations.
The picture shows Nancy Devlin holding her copy of Kate Crawford's incredible book, 'Atlas of AI'.