Rhiannon Tudor Edwards

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards BSC. Econ, M.A., D.Phil., Hon. MFPH

Rhiannon is Professor of health economics at Bangor University, in the School of Health Sciences. She co-directs the Centre for Health Economics and Medicine Evaluation (CHEME), leading the Public Health and Prevention Economics Research Group (PHERG). She is also Co-Director Health and Care Economics Cymru funded by Welsh Government through Health and Care Research Wales.

In a global analysis of bibliometrics in health economics (1975-2022), Rhiannon was listed among the most important authors in health economics. She was ranked in the top ten most collaborative authors, with Bangor University in the top 10 most collaborative institutions in health economics. See: Barbu, L. Global trends in the scientific research of the health economics: a bibliometric analysis from 1975 to 2022. Health Econ Rev 13, 31 (2023). Rhiannon has a particular interest in the methodology of economic evaluation alongside trials of public health and psychosocial interventions.

With over 600 peer-reviewed collaborative papers, Rhiannon has an H index of 60.

Co-editor and contributor to the two following textbooks:
Health Economics of Well-being and Well-becoming across the Life-course (Edwards and Lawrence, 2024)

Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research (Edwards and McIntosh, 2019)

She is a graduate of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, University of Calgary, Canada, and The University of York. Rhiannon was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Policy (2004-05) and spent her sabbatical at The McColl Institute Group Health Cooperative, a large health maintenance organisation (HMO), Seattle, USA. She was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, University of Chicago.

Rhiannon is a reviewer for Nature Health and has served on a number of NIHR and Health and Care Research Wales (HCRW) funding panels. She established the mentoring programme for the Health Economics Study Group (HESG) of the UK, which mentors early-career health economists. She is a qualified executive coach and promotes the philosophy of coaching and mentoring in her work.