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Staff Profile

Dr Ashleigh Kernohan

Senior Research Associate

  • Telephone: 0191 208 8487
  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Newcastle University
    Baddiley-Clark Building
    Richardson Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE2 4AX
Background

Ashleigh Kernohan is a Senior Research Associate based in the Population Health Science Institute at Newcastle University. She qualified as a community optometrist and practiced in several different clinical contexts before completing a PhD in health economics and taking up a post as a health economist.


She has been a co-applicant on a number of NIHR funded projects with the role of evaluating the costs and benefits of different interventions with a special interest in eye disease. She has also recently completed a project as a co-primary investigator evaluating different surgical approaches to retinal detachment (the EYE CHOOSE project). Her research interests include different evaluation methods in the context of eye care, understanding the role of community practitioners in eye care, and valuation methods to better understand the preferences of the general public and patients with regard to eye disease.


Areas of expertise

  • Economic Evaluation
  • Systematic Review
  • Preference Elicitation


Qualifications

  • PhD – “An Economic Evaluation of community eye disease” – Glasgow Caledonian University 
  • BSc Hons – Optometry (1st class) – Glasgow Caledonian University - 2011


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Publications