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Staff Profile

Dr Nawaraj Bhattarai

Senior Research Associate

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7821
  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    (Health Economics Group)
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
    Baddiley-Clark Building
    Richardson Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE2 4AX
    United Kingdom
Background

I am a Senior Research Associate in the Health Economics Group, Population Health Sciences Institute with experience of working in academia and industry. 


My areas of expertise are systematic reviews of economic evaluations, within trial economic evaluations, economic modelling and preference elicitations (e.g. Discrete Choice Experiments, Contingent Valuation Methods). I am also interested in economic evaluations of global health issues and healthcare systems. 


As a member of Newcastle Technology Assessment Group, I lead the critique of company submissions to NICE. I have experience of leading health economics element in Single Technology Appraisals (STAs), Late Stage Assessments (LSA) and Diagnostic Assessment Reviews (DARs).


Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Newcastle University, United Kingdom (2019)

MSc PH (Health Economics & Financial Management), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2008)

Master of Public Health (MPH), University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (2007)

Bachelors in Public Health (BPH), Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2004)

 

Previous Positions: 

Senior Research Consultant (Health Economics), Cytel (May 2022 to January 2023)

Associate Researcher (Health Economics), Health Economics Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University (June 2022 to February 2023)

Research Fellow (Health Economics), NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), North East and North Cumbria (NENC), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (November 2020 to May 2022)

Research Associate, Health Economics Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK (February 2019- May 2022)

Health Foundation Doctoral Research Fellow/ Research Assistant, Health Economics Group, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, UK (March 2014-February 2019)

Research Assistant, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) Team, University of Glasgow, UK (September 2013-February 2014)

Research Associate, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London, UK (April 2010-September 2013)

Research Officer, Public Health Network Office, NHS Cambridgeshire, UK (January 2009-April 2010)


Research Interests:

Economic evaluations of health interventions and health system changes; health outcome valuation; preference elicitations (example: the use of discrete choice experiments/contingent valuation methods), global health.


 

 

Research

Some of the research projects I am/was involved in are:

  • NIHR129196 - Adapted suicide safety plans to address self harm, suicidal ideation and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: an interventional single arm feasibility trial and external pilot randomised controlled trial - I lead on the health economics work package where feasibility and appropriateness of health economics tools is being assessed.
  • European Commission under the H2020 programme Grant: MCDS-Therapy- Repurposing of carbamazepine for treatment of skeletal dysplasia- I lead on the Budget Impact Assessment of introducing carbamazepine and also contribute to the economic evaluation model assessing its cost-effectiveness.
  • NIHR HSDR : A Real-World, In-Situ, Evaluation Of The Introduction And Scale-Up Of Robot-Assisted Surgical Services In The NHS: Evaluating Its Impact On Clinical And Service Delivery, Effectiveness And Cost (REINFORCE)]- I lead on the health economics work package where I am carrying out a within-trial analyses, economic modelling and a budget impact assessment.
  • NIHR Technology Appraisal Review (TAR)- I lead on the Single and Multiple technology appraisals/diagnostics assessments as per NICE's requirements.
  • NIHR ARC NENC open funding: Assessing the impact and cost-effectiveness of a community-centred approach to public health on mental health and well-being; a co-produced mixed methods study.- I lead on the health economics work package and conduct a controlled interrupted time series (ITS) analysis to assess the cost-effectiveness of the study intervention.


Teaching

I lead sessions in MSc Public Health and Health Services Research as one of the Health Economics Module Lecturers. I am actively involved in module planning, preparations and student markings.

My recent supervisee were: 

  • Will King (MSc)
  • Helen Grover (MD)

I also sit in progression panel of PhD/MD students.

Publications