Nyantara Wickramasekera
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Research Fellow
n.wickramasekera@sheffield.ac.uk
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Nyantara Wickramasekera
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
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Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
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S1 4DA
- Profile
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My research focuses on supporting patients to help make informed treatment decisions, and valuation of health and wellbeing outcomes to inform public policy for the allocation of healthcare resources. Within this field of health economics outcomes research, my interests fall into three key areas:
- Estimating preferences using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE) to support patient decision-making and inform policymaking.
- Measuring and valuing health outcomes.
- Conducting economic evaluations alongside trials.
- Qualifications
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- Master of Science in Evidence-Based Social Intervention, University of Oxford, 2013
- Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Studies, Earlham College, United States of America, 2011
- Research interests
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Current projects:
- NIHR Doctoral Fellow: Development and evaluation of a patient decision tool to promote informed decision-making for patients who are considering medical or surgical treatments for UC.
Past projects:
- DCE study: Patient preferences for treatment options for PIlonidal sinus Treatment: STudying the OPtions (PITSTOP); NIHR HTA (17/17/02); £754,129.60
- DCE/mapping study: SIPHER (System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease prevention); UK Prevention Research Partnership (MR/S037578/1) £4,980,461.00
- DCE study: Estimating the relative importance of factors in the choice to make a clinical negligence claim; EEPRU £87,299
- DCE study: PoPSTER: Patient preferences and current Practice for adults with STERoid resistant ulcerative colitis; NIHR HTA (17/72/02); £187,103.20
- Trad-off/WTP study: The Design, Development, Commissioning and Evaluation of Patient-Focused Vascular Services; NIHR HTA (RP-PG-1210-12009); £1,884,127.00
- Economic evaluation: PRaCTICED- Pragmatic, Randomised Controlled Trial assessing the non-Inferiority of Counselling and its Effectiveness for Depression; British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; £449,832.00
- Economic evaluation: Understanding the impacts of care farms on health and well-being: A Pilot study to assess the cost-effectiveness of care farms; NIHR PHR (11/3050/08); £ 468,153.76
- Qualitative study: Information systems: monitoring and managing from ward to board; NIHR HS&DR - 13/07/68; £ 382,441.00
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- . United European Gastroenterology Journal.
- . Value in Health.
- . Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.
- . Colorectal Disease.
- . Colorectal Disease, 25(1), 102-110.
- . Health Science Reports, 5(4).
- . Value in Health.
- . Scand J Gastroenterol, 1-10.
- . The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(6), 487-499.
- . Colorectal Disease.
- . Health Information Management Journal.
- . Journal of Mental Health.
- . British Journal of Surgery, 106(13), 1775-1783.
- Exploring social preferences for health and wellbeing across the digital divide. A qualitative investigation based on tasks taken from an online discrete choice experiment. Value in Health.
- A large scale population survey of health and wellbeing to allow comparisons between outcome measures: the SIPHER-HWMIC dataset. Social Indicators Research.
All publications
Journal articles
- . United European Gastroenterology Journal.
- . Value in Health.
- . Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.
- . Colorectal Disease.
- . Colorectal Disease, 25(1), 102-110.
- . Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 26(41), 1-118.
- . Health Science Reports, 5(4).
- . Value in Health.
- . Scand J Gastroenterol, 1-10.
- . The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(6), 487-499.
- . Programme Grants for Applied Research, 9(5), 1-150.
- . Colorectal Disease.
- . Health Information Management Journal.
- . Journal of Mental Health.
- . British Journal of Surgery, 107(5), 613-614.
- . British Journal of Surgery, 106(13), 1775-1783.
- . Campbell Systematic Reviews, 15(4).
- . BMJ Open, 8(11).
- . Health Services and Delivery Research, 6(22), 1-142.
- . BMJ Open, 8(3), e019296-e019296.
- . Public Health Research, 6(3).
- . Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(3), 218-228.
- . Campbell Systematic Reviews, 10(1), 1-61.
- Exploring social preferences for health and wellbeing across the digital divide. A qualitative investigation based on tasks taken from an online discrete choice experiment. Value in Health.
- A large scale population survey of health and wellbeing to allow comparisons between outcome measures: the SIPHER-HWMIC dataset. Social Indicators Research.
- . Health Technology Assessment, 1-113.
Conference proceedings papers
- Deriving a preference based measure for age-related macular degeneration from the VILL-33: A MACUSTAR Study Report. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 31 (pp S76-S76)
- . Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Vol. 15(Supplement_1) (pp S287-S287)
- . Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Vol. 15(Supplement_1) (pp S249-S249)
- . Posters
- . Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S117-S117)
- Using public preferences to quantify the burden of travel to specialist vascular centres for abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment in the UK. RCN International Research Conference
- . Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, Vol. 1(1)
- . Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, Vol. 1(Suppl 1), 19 July 2016 - 20 July 2016.
Preprints
- Teaching interests
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I teach on a number of modules (Key Issues in Public Health, Economic Evaluation and Healthcare Financing, Research Methods) on the Master of Public Health course and I supervise MPH dissertation students.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- NIHR Doctoral Fellow 2023-2026
- NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2021-2022
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Member of the
- Member of ScHARR Ethics Committee
- Member of the UK Health Economists' Study Group
- Member of International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)