Dr Joanna Thorn
BSc (Bristol), PhD (Exeter), MSc (Birmingham)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Senior Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
My research interests include applied health economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials, particularly for non-pharmacological interventions for long-term conditions. I am also interested in more methodological aspects of economic evaluation, and have developed a research programme in costing methodology. I explore the use of both routine data sources and patient-reported methods for collecting resource-use data, and am particularly interested in the effective inclusion of social care data alongside healthcare data. I have also recently led a Delphi survey to identify the key content of a health economics analysis plan (HEAP) to create guidance for practitioners.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Improving outcomes by addressing variation in unmet needs at transition to adult care for young people born with cleft lip and palate
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
NIHR Programme GrantManaging organisational unit
Bristol Dental SchoolDates
01/04/2024 to 30/09/2029
Models of Meals on Wheels provision in England: a rapid review
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
The aim of the proposed NIHR Research Capability Funding project is to conduct a rapid review of the grey literature, in order to document existing models of provision of the…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
27/03/2023 to 31/07/2023
HTMR Network Impact Award: N57 'Identification of Items for Inclusion in a standardised resource use measure.'
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2019 to 31/10/2020
8071 - HEAPS 2 HTMR Network Impact Award: 'Health Economics Analysis Plans: developing content guidance through consensus' (CLOSED)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2018 to 31/05/2019
OAFI: Pecunia
Principal Investigator
Description
ProgrammE in Costing, resource use measurement and outcome valuation for Use in multi-sectoral National and International health economic evaluAtions (PECUNIA) addresses the call SC1-PM-20-2017 Methods research for improved health economic…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
15/03/2018 to 31/01/2021
Thesis supervisions
Secondary care costs to the NHS for children born with unilateral cleft lip and palate, bilateral cleft lip and palate and cleft palate from birth to 10 years of age
Supervisors
Development of a modular resource-use measure for use in economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials
Supervisors
The cost of cleft care to the parent and child
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
13/11/2024Health Economics Analysis Plan (HEAP) for STRATA
Hospital-based Costs to the National Health Service (UK) for Children and Adolescents Born with Cleft from Birth to 20 Years
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
How should we measure the use of social care and informal care?
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
Identification and prioritisation of items for a draft participant-reported questionnaire to measure use of social care, informal care, aids and adaptations
PharmacoEconomics - Open
"I never thought I’d see the day that I would be doing things on Zoom"
Health and Social Care in the Community
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