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Dr Edward Webb is a Senior Research Fellow in the Academic Unit of Health Economics at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds. His academic background includes an MSci in Theoretical Physics from the University of Durham, a PgDip and MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick, a Cand.polit. from the University of Copenhagen, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen completed in 2016. During his PhD, he studied the role of salience, attention, and perception in decision making, transferring psychological insights to economic environments. He joined the University of Leeds following his doctorate, where he conducts research in health economics specializing in decision making and preferences. His expertise encompasses discrete choice experiments and other stated preference methods, focusing on how individuals make decisions under risk and uncertainty to improve health policy and clinical practice. Webb investigates behavioural economics aspects, including deviations from the canonical rational choice model and how decision mechanisms affect interactions in different economic settings. Key areas include patient preferences, measurement and valuation of health.
Webb serves as co-investigator on projects such as ARISE - ARthrItiS and Employment, examining arthritis impacts on work, and Equitable Palliative care In the Community through Primary Care (EPIC-PC), proposing integrated neighbourhood teams for end-of-life care. His research also addresses EQ-5D health state valuation, potential changes post-COVID-19, financial impacts of caring, and arthritis effects on employment and wellbeing using survey and administrative data. Notable publications include 'A systematic review of discrete-choice experiments and conjoint analysis studies in people with multiple sclerosis' (2018), 'The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents' (2022), 'What’s important in AAC decision making for children? Evidence from a best–worst scaling survey' (2019), 'Transforming discrete choice experiment latent scale values for EQ-5D-3L using the visual analogue scale' (2020), and 'Does a health crisis change how we value health?' (2021). These contributions advance patient-centered outcomes and methodological innovations in health economics.
