Dr Emily Holmes
Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:
Award: Health Research Fellowship Scheme (2022 - 2025)
Project title: The Economics of Rapid Diagnostics to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing in NHS Wales (TRaDe)
Biography
Dr Emily Holmes holds a Health Research Fellowship investigating the economics of rapid diagnostics to reduce antibiotic prescribing in Wales (TRaDe). She is Principal Investigator of studies evaluating treatment preferences (TRaDE, PaCT) and co-investigator of the NIHR Collaborate Study. Her research interests and expertise include preference elicitation, medication adherence, and the influence of human behaviour on the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
Emily is an economics graduate and completed her doctoral research in behavioural economics and health psychology of medication adherence. She has over 50 published papers and conference proceedings and edited health technology assessment reports for the All-Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre (AWTTC) for several years. She is a member of The International Society for Medication Adherence (ESPACOMP) ECR committee, Epilepsy Action Scientific Awards Panel, LISTEN (NIHR) Trial Steering Committee, and Bangor University Athena SWAN working group. She supervises several research students and is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Read more about Emily and their work:
Three awards celebrate life-changing research at Health and Care Research Wales Conference 2021
Health and Care Research Wales announces recipients of 2019-20 funding awards worth over £5 million