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Timea Marianna Helter MSc MRes
PhD Student (2008-)
E-Mail: timea.helter@brunel.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1895 265446
Fax: +44 (0)1895 269708
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Timea is a full-time PhD student at HERG, funded by the Medical Research Council. She completed her first degree in economics, followed by an MSc in Economics (2004), from the Corvinus University of Budapest with specialisation in Public Policy and Management. Timea holds an MSc in Health Informatics (2007) from the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, UCL, where she worked on a web-based routine health outcome measurement tool (a computer-based EQ-5D) for her dissertation. She also completed an MRes with merit in Health Research (2008) at Brunel University, funded by the MRC as part of her PhD programme. Timea has a wide range of work experience within the health sector, allowing her to gain an insight to the practical and operational side of the NHS and learning about several aspects of health outcomes research both in a consultancy firm and a national health technology assessment office.
Timea’s research aims to contribute to the conceptualisation of what the most important non-health outcomes of public health policies and interventions are, and which of those should be included in economic evaluations that feed into resource allocation decisions. She is aiming to design, implement and critically appraise a Discrete Choice Experiment in the area of alcohol misuse, whilst specifically focusing on the issue of developing attributes for DCEs in public health.
Timea was also the PhD student representative for HERG between 2009 and 2011 and worked as a residences student mentor from 2008 to 2010.
(She is currently on maternity leave.)
Research interests: economic evaluation of public health interventions, outcome measurement, Discrete Choice Experiments, the role of qualitative research in health economics and the use of web-based research techniques in health economics.
