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Anne Marciniak
PhD Student (since 2005)
E-Mail: anne.marciniak@brunel.ac.uk
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Anne Marciniak is a part-time PhD student at HERG. She is a physician specialised in public health (MD in Public Health from the University of Grenoble, 1989). She also holds an MBA from the Open University (2003), an MSc in Health Economics (1992) from York University and an MPhil in Epidemiology and Statistics from Paris University (1990). She has extensive experience as a Health Economist and Market Access expert in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Her research focuses on the Methodological issues for the measurement of Utility in Pain states. More specifically she is testing the empirical support for Expected Utility theory in the case of physical (bodily) pain states. The empirical work will be based on a general population of subjects, athletes from Brunel University and outpatients suffering from painful illness (but not disability), with approximately 1/3 subjects without pain, 1/3 subjects with mild pain, 1/3 with moderate or severe pain. A baseline questions and follow up at 3 further time points will include willingness to pay and time-trade-off as well as questionnaires assessing pain, psychological well-being, generic utility. Results will characterize the relationship between level of pain and utility, study which characteristics of pain affect the relationship level of pain/utility (confounders) and empirically test various aspects of prospect and Kahneman’s utility theories.
Research interests: health technology assessment, Measurement and valuation of health outcomes, evaluation of health technologies from the patient’s point-of-view, behavioural economics.
