WEBVTT dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-0 00:00:26.328 --> 00:00:31.201 So we lose all of our health economic capacity, you know, in one fell swoop. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-1 00:00:31.201 --> 00:00:34.556 But, you know, a big welcome to everybody to today's dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-2 00:00:34.556 --> 00:00:39.304 inaugural lecture, Professor Jason Madden, family, friends and colleagues, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-3 00:00:39.304 --> 00:00:43.924 welcome to this inaugural lecture. An inaugural lecture is a significant dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-4 00:00:43.924 --> 00:00:48.608 milestone in an academic's career, marking their promotion to the rank of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-5 00:00:48.608 --> 00:00:51.836 professor. And this title is not something that is dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-6 00:00:51.836 --> 00:00:55.381 conferred lightly. It follows a rigorous and reflective dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/210-7 00:00:55.381 --> 00:00:55.888 process. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/235-0 00:00:56.528 --> 00:00:59.423 Acknowledges not only outstanding achievements, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/235-1 00:00:59.423 --> 00:01:03.644 but also the deepest respect and admiration of peers and the academic dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/235-2 00:01:03.644 --> 00:01:04.248 community. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/296-0 00:01:05.328 --> 00:01:09.923 Becoming a professor on as an individual's exceptional contribution and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/296-1 00:01:09.923 --> 00:01:14.965 the meaningful impact that they've made both within their field and across the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/296-2 00:01:14.965 --> 00:01:20.007 wider landscape of health education, it also sets a high bar for the future as dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/296-3 00:01:20.007 --> 00:01:24.283 the title carries with it responsibilities to uphold the values of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/296-4 00:01:24.283 --> 00:01:27.474 collegiality, academic freedom and the relentless dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/296-5 00:01:27.474 --> 00:01:31.368 pursuit of knowledge and impact and the benefits of society. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/326-0 00:01:32.368 --> 00:01:36.109 At 糖心TV Medical School, our vision is to transform health through dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/326-1 00:01:36.109 --> 00:01:38.603 innovative education and research excellence, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/326-2 00:01:38.603 --> 00:01:42.777 and we're incredibly fortunate to have Jason as part of our professori at an dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/326-3 00:01:42.777 --> 00:01:43.808 academic community. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/378-0 00:01:45.088 --> 00:01:49.563 Jason joined 糖心TV in 2012, following roles in Bristol and Sheffield, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/378-1 00:01:49.563 --> 00:01:54.661 and since then we've witnessed his career flourish progressing from the system to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/378-2 00:01:54.661 --> 00:01:59.447 associate and now on to full professor. As director of the Centre for Health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/378-3 00:01:59.447 --> 00:02:03.985 Economics, Jason leads by example. He embodies the very best of academic dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/378-4 00:02:03.985 --> 00:02:06.845 life, combining excellence in research with a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/378-5 00:02:06.845 --> 00:02:08.648 deep commitment to education. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/390-0 00:02:09.528 --> 00:02:13.768 His leadership and mentorship continues to inspire students and colleagues alike. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-0 00:02:15.068 --> 00:02:20.111 Jason's research and health economic evaluation addresses critical challenges dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-1 00:02:20.111 --> 00:02:23.344 in cancer, infectious diseases and mental health, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-2 00:02:23.344 --> 00:02:27.482 both locally and globally, informing health policy and practise dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-3 00:02:27.482 --> 00:02:32.332 exemplifies the power of applied interdisciplinary research to make a real dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-4 00:02:32.332 --> 00:02:35.500 world impact. I'm really looking forward to your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-5 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:40.608 presentation. If I were the money man, the challengers and joys of a career in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/452-6 00:02:40.608 --> 00:02:41.708 health economics. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/466-0 00:02:42.488 --> 00:02:46.764 It promises to offer fantastic insights into the rewarding and often complex dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/466-1 00:02:46.764 --> 00:02:48.208 world of health economics. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/480-0 00:02:49.278 --> 00:02:52.095 Contribution to both the local and international stage. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/480-1 00:02:52.095 --> 00:02:54.158 Looking forward to talk Jason. Thank you. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/483-0 00:02:57.368 --> 00:02:58.568 And thank you. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/500-0 00:03:04.768 --> 00:03:06.975 So I'd like to thank you all for coming today. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/500-1 00:03:06.975 --> 00:03:10.686 I'd like to thank Gavin in the medical school for those very kind and generous dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/500-2 00:03:10.686 --> 00:03:10.968 words. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/535-0 00:03:12.808 --> 00:03:17.080 For the chance to stand up here and talk about myself and my discipline for almost dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/535-1 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.455 a whole hour, but most importantly of all, for giving me a professional home for the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/535-2 00:03:21.455 --> 00:03:23.977 last 13 years. And if you were to ask my family, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/535-3 00:03:23.977 --> 00:03:26.088 and you can. They're here today. Welcome. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-0 00:03:26.788 --> 00:03:31.446 I hope you're to ask me if I've they thought they're gonna stick anything out dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-1 00:03:31.446 --> 00:03:36.522 for that long. I'll bet they'd say no way. And the fact I have reflects not just how dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-2 00:03:36.522 --> 00:03:40.105 great it is to work at what medical school. I can say that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-3 00:03:40.105 --> 00:03:43.568 I'd say that even if you weren't here, gap and I promise, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-4 00:03:43.568 --> 00:03:48.226 but also how health economics is is a fascinating and rewarding field to work dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-5 00:03:48.226 --> 00:03:50.555 in. And so I want to share with you my dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/591-6 00:03:50.555 --> 00:03:52.228 colleagues and family today. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/601-0 00:03:53.008 --> 00:03:56.008 Why it's such a joyful thing to work in, but in the interests of balance. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/639-0 00:03:56.688 --> 00:04:00.146 I'm also going to share some of the frustrations and the challenges of being dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/639-1 00:04:00.146 --> 00:04:02.662 a health communist. Luckily, as often as the rain life, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/639-2 00:04:02.662 --> 00:04:06.300 the things that make health joyful are also the source of those frustrations and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/639-3 00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:08.501 challenges. So I can cover both of those without dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/639-4 00:04:08.501 --> 00:04:10.568 running over time. So don't worry about that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-0 00:04:16.168 --> 00:04:18.971 So the risk of sounding like a petulant teenager, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-1 00:04:18.971 --> 00:04:23.343 I'm going to start with the frustration that's being misunderstood sometimes, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-2 00:04:23.343 --> 00:04:27.323 and some of the people that you come across almost seem to view health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-3 00:04:27.323 --> 00:04:30.575 economists as Oscar Wilde view cynics as people who knew, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-4 00:04:30.575 --> 00:04:33.658 know the price of everything but the value of nothing. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-5 00:04:33.658 --> 00:04:36.741 And I'm sure that isn't true of any of you here today. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/690-6 00:04:36.741 --> 00:04:38.648 All the people I get to work with. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/700-0 00:04:39.568 --> 00:04:42.448 In the projects that I've had a chance to work with over my career. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-0 00:04:43.308 --> 00:04:46.936 But every so often I'll stand up to present my healthy confidence results as dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-1 00:04:46.936 --> 00:04:50.753 part of a project dissemination event. And I've been introduced several times as dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-2 00:04:50.753 --> 00:04:53.439 the money man. Now it's time to hear from the money man, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-3 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:57.020 and I know it's kind of meant jokingly, but I stand up and I go and I think dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-4 00:04:57.020 --> 00:05:00.648 something about some of my colleagues from university days who did maths and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-5 00:05:00.648 --> 00:05:03.098 economics. They've gone to places like the city and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-6 00:05:03.098 --> 00:05:06.350 they really are the money men and the money women and I think, yeah, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/771-7 00:05:06.350 --> 00:05:08.188 I wish I had some of that but actually. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/797-0 00:05:08.968 --> 00:05:13.135 My my title is a bit of lie today because I don't really wish I was a money man. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/797-1 00:05:13.135 --> 00:05:16.068 I think what I wish what I want to be, what I hope I am, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/797-2 00:05:16.068 --> 00:05:20.288 and I think my colleagues speaking for you today hope that you all are value men. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/836-0 00:05:20.868 --> 00:05:23.863 And value women. And to illustrate what I mean by that, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/836-1 00:05:23.863 --> 00:05:28.303 I wanted to talk to you about a couple of projects I could have talked about many. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/836-2 00:05:28.303 --> 00:05:31.619 The first one is sort of, which is sort of illustrated by the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/836-3 00:05:31.619 --> 00:05:35.150 picture on the left here. Is that a trial we'd recently completed dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/836-4 00:05:35.150 --> 00:05:38.948 here at the clinical trial unit called Pippa. So Pippa was evaluating. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/867-0 00:05:40.488 --> 00:05:43.123 An online parenting support training course, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/867-1 00:05:43.123 --> 00:05:47.751 several modules and we found in Pippa that parents felt from doing this course dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/867-2 00:05:47.751 --> 00:05:52.437 that they felt more confident as parents. They felt they showed they would show dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/867-3 00:05:52.437 --> 00:05:56.128 that they were kind of up skilled. If you give that ugly word. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-0 00:05:56.868 --> 00:06:01.143 And and it was really rewarding to see that we were benefiting parents in that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-1 00:06:01.143 --> 00:06:03.525 way and helping them to look at, to manage, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-2 00:06:03.525 --> 00:06:07.963 to help their children manage that very tricky period in life between the ages of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-3 00:06:07.963 --> 00:06:10.885 11 and 15. So a wonderful project have been involved. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-4 00:06:10.885 --> 00:06:15.215 So the second project I want to kind of get talk about to get us thinking about dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-5 00:06:15.215 --> 00:06:18.733 this is that kind of illustrated by these pictures on the right. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/929-6 00:06:18.733 --> 00:06:20.628 And the picture there, you can see. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/948-0 00:06:21.768 --> 00:06:24.921 It's like a beauty parlour. There's a barbers, a nice canteen, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/948-1 00:06:24.921 --> 00:06:28.126 some good food there, and it might not be obvious to all of you dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/948-2 00:06:28.126 --> 00:06:29.728 where those pictures were taken. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-0 00:06:30.808 --> 00:06:36.012 They're actually taken in what I believe is South Asia's largest inpatient mental dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-1 00:06:36.012 --> 00:06:39.502 health hospital, which is in Nagpur in India and I was dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-2 00:06:39.502 --> 00:06:42.421 there. The reason I was there as part of this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-3 00:06:42.421 --> 00:06:47.181 group was because I was supporting supervising APHD student called Tasneem dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-4 00:06:47.181 --> 00:06:50.735 Raja. And OK aside here, having put this talk together, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-5 00:06:50.735 --> 00:06:55.939 I realised that most of what I'm going to talk about today is not stuff I've done dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-6 00:06:55.939 --> 00:06:59.556 myself directly, but stuff that PhD students I work with dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1013-7 00:06:59.556 --> 00:07:00.128 has done. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1070-0 00:07:01.148 --> 00:07:05.800 And I don't think that's an accident. I think the and I was thinking about the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1070-1 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.335 the thing my career probably found most rewarding is supporting students and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1070-2 00:07:10.335 --> 00:07:15.164 supervisors both myself as a supervisor, but also the time I spent as head of our dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1070-3 00:07:15.164 --> 00:07:19.994 PGR programme here at the medical school and through that experience I've learned dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1070-4 00:07:19.994 --> 00:07:24.588 as I think many of you will know that our PhD students, our PGR students are. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1089-0 00:07:25.808 --> 00:07:29.546 And you can kind of pick your metaphor here. They are the the engine room. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1089-1 00:07:29.546 --> 00:07:32.488 They are the foundation. They are the greenhouse in which. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1103-0 00:07:33.868 --> 00:07:37.111 So much of our innovative research flourishes, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1103-1 00:07:37.111 --> 00:07:40.148 develops and and and and becomes impactful. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1138-0 00:07:41.688 --> 00:07:46.387 So and this example just to sneeze work, Tasneem was running a project called Uran, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1138-1 00:07:46.387 --> 00:07:49.408 which I believe correct me Mum and Dad. If I'm wrong, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1138-2 00:07:49.408 --> 00:07:53.548 I believe it means flight in Hindi and the aim of Iran was to improve the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1138-3 00:07:53.548 --> 00:07:57.576 dignity and well-being of people living what can be quite a challenging dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1138-4 00:07:57.576 --> 00:07:58.248 environment. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1148-0 00:07:59.928 --> 00:08:04.589 A mental hospital in a place like India. So with both these projects and many dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1148-1 00:08:04.589 --> 00:08:05.008 others. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1187-0 00:08:06.988 --> 00:08:10.266 They're clear, very, very valuable and impactful things. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1187-1 00:08:10.266 --> 00:08:14.004 Things that we as academics want to support and get involved in. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1187-2 00:08:14.004 --> 00:08:18.087 Some of you may wonder what? Why do you need a health economist to get dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1187-3 00:08:18.087 --> 00:08:21.537 involved in these sort of things and others more knowledge, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1187-4 00:08:21.537 --> 00:08:23.148 more knowledgeably will say. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1229-0 00:08:24.688 --> 00:08:27.074 Well, you have to show things that these are dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1229-1 00:08:27.074 --> 00:08:29.619 cost effective, don't you as well as effective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1229-2 00:08:29.619 --> 00:08:33.596 And I'll come back to this idea of cost effectiveness later on in my talk. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1229-3 00:08:33.596 --> 00:08:37.839 But the point I want to make just now at the start of this talk is if you think dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1229-4 00:08:37.839 --> 00:08:40.596 about it, we can certainly work out what investment dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1229-5 00:08:40.596 --> 00:08:43.248 is required to do these things and that's useful. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1279-0 00:08:44.128 --> 00:08:48.228 But the real challenge if you're taking your work when you're working in these dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1279-1 00:08:48.228 --> 00:08:51.187 constrained environment resource challenge environments, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1279-2 00:08:51.187 --> 00:08:53.783 is trying to advocate for independence like this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1279-3 00:08:53.783 --> 00:08:57.572 Compared to all the other pressures that policymakers and services have. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1279-4 00:08:57.572 --> 00:09:00.168 And that boils down to trying to measure capture. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1310-0 00:09:01.808 --> 00:09:05.098 Compare something very intangible, which is the value of that you create in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1310-1 00:09:05.098 --> 00:09:08.388 people's lives are doing these things, and I think that is in fact the most dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1310-2 00:09:08.388 --> 00:09:10.337 interesting part of health economics for me. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1310-3 00:09:10.337 --> 00:09:13.368 And I think probably for many of my colleagues. And that's why I say. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1323-0 00:09:14.388 --> 00:09:18.385 I want to be and I think we all want to be value men and women. Maybe not money, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1323-1 00:09:18.385 --> 00:09:19.668 men and women, to be fair. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1374-0 00:09:24.958 --> 00:09:29.598 When did you talk about this? See, it gives you a chance to maybe look back dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1374-1 00:09:29.598 --> 00:09:32.345 and and how did you get where you are today? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1374-2 00:09:32.345 --> 00:09:35.947 How did you go from being this very fresh faced young lad? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1374-3 00:09:35.947 --> 00:09:40.404 And if you can spot me there. So at the back to this much older, grayer, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1374-4 00:09:40.404 --> 00:09:44.983 more wrinkled, very happy health. Member of Chew on the right and I'd love dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1374-5 00:09:44.983 --> 00:09:49.318 to say it was a very straight and smooth path. But As for many people. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1387-0 00:09:50.128 --> 00:09:52.920 I didn't dream of becoming a health economist when I was at school, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1387-1 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:54.728 I didn't even know what one was, of course. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1396-0 00:09:55.558 --> 00:09:58.038 So it was a bit more of a meandering path that I took. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1403-0 00:09:59.568 --> 00:10:01.448 With lots of sliding doors moments along the way. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1421-0 00:10:03.288 --> 00:10:06.837 I could have ended up as all sorts of things I could have ended up as a money dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1421-1 00:10:06.837 --> 00:10:09.339 man potentially. I'm quite happy with how I how I end, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1421-2 00:10:09.339 --> 00:10:10.568 where I ended up though so. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1440-0 00:10:12.328 --> 00:10:15.749 Even if I didn't take as my family will will know with some frustration, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1440-1 00:10:15.749 --> 00:10:18.328 I didn't take the sensible, direct route to get there. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1500-0 00:10:24.868 --> 00:10:29.414 One thing when I was thinking back on this one thing that I realised was I do dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1500-1 00:10:29.414 --> 00:10:33.902 love a university and in fact I've spent my pretty much my entire adult life dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1500-2 00:10:33.902 --> 00:10:38.041 either studying or working in and for universities I've been involved, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1500-3 00:10:38.041 --> 00:10:42.063 I've been linked works of, housed by or found a home in seven across dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1500-4 00:10:42.063 --> 00:10:46.551 the UK and you feel free to tune out. While I'm awfully on on this slide and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1500-5 00:10:46.551 --> 00:10:48.708 try and work out which ones they are. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1513-0 00:10:49.488 --> 00:10:51.472 I think the middle one, you'll get straight away, but mostly, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1513-1 00:10:51.472 --> 00:10:52.688 but if you can perk up the others too. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1525-0 00:10:54.528 --> 00:10:57.325 And that's, I mean, particularly in this time when in many dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1525-1 00:10:57.325 --> 00:11:00.408 ways universities are under a lot of pressure, a lot of attacks. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1564-0 00:11:01.258 --> 00:11:03.940 I really feel this is something that we need to defend, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1564-1 00:11:03.940 --> 00:11:07.677 that they they produce huge amounts of value both for the people who studying dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1564-2 00:11:07.677 --> 00:11:10.696 them and work in them, but also for the communities they serve dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1564-3 00:11:10.696 --> 00:11:13.378 and support, which can be the global community as well. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1564-4 00:11:13.378 --> 00:11:13.858 We'll see. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1600-0 00:11:14.818 --> 00:11:19.232 Having you said that I would just mention before I don't talk about it anymore. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1600-1 00:11:19.232 --> 00:11:23.646 I did spend a bit of time in what you might call the real world for a few years dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1600-2 00:11:23.646 --> 00:11:28.170 around Millennium back back in those days. And I did two very different things in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1600-3 00:11:28.170 --> 00:11:30.378 that time as as my family will remember. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1635-0 00:11:31.938 --> 00:11:35.763 Part of that was I I trained and worked as a teacher of English as a foreign dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1635-1 00:11:35.763 --> 00:11:39.339 language and saw some wonderful places like this picture is timishwara. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1635-2 00:11:39.339 --> 00:11:42.419 If you've ever been in Romania, if you haven't, getting some. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1635-3 00:11:42.419 --> 00:11:44.903 Some people have, it's definitely worth visiting. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1635-4 00:11:44.903 --> 00:11:45.698 Wonderful place. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1656-0 00:11:47.108 --> 00:11:51.301 The other so then I did that for a while and then completely did a 180 and decided dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1656-1 00:11:51.301 --> 00:11:53.828 panic decided to train as a chartered accountant. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1663-0 00:11:56.498 --> 00:11:58.498 So then I was the money manager, a while in a way. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1687-0 00:12:00.258 --> 00:12:03.095 But I managed, you know, I that didn't last. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1687-1 00:12:03.095 --> 00:12:07.760 I knew I was in the wrong place. I moved back into the world universities dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1687-2 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:09.778 and that's where I am today and. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1711-0 00:12:11.458 --> 00:12:14.815 I guess you know you could say that. Think about this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1711-1 00:12:14.815 --> 00:12:19.089 I did realise quite early on, particularly the counter training quite dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1711-2 00:12:19.089 --> 00:12:20.738 early on. It wasn't for me. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-0 00:12:22.188 --> 00:12:25.217 I did stick it out. I qualified as a chartered accountant. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-1 00:12:25.217 --> 00:12:28.247 I don't like admitting that. But I'll I'll admit it today. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-2 00:12:28.247 --> 00:12:31.431 So I was a qualified chartered accountant and I stuck it out. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-3 00:12:31.431 --> 00:12:35.077 Even though after a few weeks I realised it was the wrong thing to do. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-4 00:12:35.077 --> 00:12:38.775 So what lesson should we take from this? We could take the lesson away. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-5 00:12:38.775 --> 00:12:42.421 That don't be afraid to quit. But I don't feel like that's the lesson. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-6 00:12:42.421 --> 00:12:44.938 Really. I should be standing up here and giving. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-7 00:12:44.938 --> 00:12:48.738 So I'll try a different lesson. Which is even when you take a false path, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1784-8 00:12:48.738 --> 00:12:49.868 it's never a disaster. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1798-0 00:12:50.658 --> 00:12:54.466 You'll still find some scenic things to enjoy along the way. So for example, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1798-1 00:12:54.466 --> 00:12:57.138 teaching us the foreign language actually was really. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1824-0 00:12:58.508 --> 00:13:01.400 A real sort of insight. It was really helpful to have that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1824-1 00:13:01.400 --> 00:13:04.292 experience of taking something that you do very naturally, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1824-2 00:13:04.292 --> 00:13:08.164 like speak your mother tongue and try and teach it and communicate it to to to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1824-3 00:13:08.164 --> 00:13:08.508 others. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1864-0 00:13:10.058 --> 00:13:14.120 And I've benefited from that experience, undoubtedly, and Even so my time in, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1864-1 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.932 in the firm Anderson. So I work with Arthur Anderson. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1864-2 00:13:16.932 --> 00:13:20.369 If you haven't heard of that, it was one of the biggest financial dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1864-3 00:13:20.369 --> 00:13:23.077 companies in the world. If you haven't heard of it, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1864-4 00:13:23.077 --> 00:13:26.670 it's because they blew up because of something called Enron scandal. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1864-5 00:13:26.670 --> 00:13:28.858 Nothing to do with me, I promise. Firstly. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-0 00:13:30.098 --> 00:13:33.954 The statement I'm paper shredders, unlike many of the former employees, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-1 00:13:33.954 --> 00:13:37.490 but my job title then was assurance risk consultant and you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-2 00:13:37.490 --> 00:13:41.507 you might think what you know what a waste of no wonder you wanted to come dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-3 00:13:41.507 --> 00:13:44.775 back to universities. That's a little bit more like a proper dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-4 00:13:44.775 --> 00:13:47.989 job, a little bit more. But actually what I learned in that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-5 00:13:47.989 --> 00:13:52.060 experience was we we were trained to think about things like business risk. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1920-6 00:13:52.060 --> 00:13:54.578 So to understand processes in an organisation. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1952-0 00:13:55.378 --> 00:13:58.501 How they systematically or systemically might go wrong, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1952-1 00:13:58.501 --> 00:14:01.346 and what you might do to to mitigate those things, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1952-2 00:14:01.346 --> 00:14:04.916 or you know to pick them up early. And when you think about it, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1952-3 00:14:04.916 --> 00:14:08.988 that's actually a really good experience for working in clinical trials, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1952-4 00:14:08.988 --> 00:14:09.658 isn't it so? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1981-0 00:14:10.718 --> 00:14:14.336 So let's take the lesson from that experience of is don't worry if you take dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1981-1 00:14:14.336 --> 00:14:16.573 a wrong turn now and again, it won't hurt you. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1981-2 00:14:16.573 --> 00:14:19.478 You'll still pick up things you didn't expect along the way. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/1982-0 00:14:26.858 --> 00:14:27.018 None. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-0 00:14:31.358 --> 00:14:33.634 So. So my kind of routine to health economics dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-1 00:14:33.634 --> 00:14:37.198 was I started off as a mathematician. That's why I started off doing at dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-2 00:14:37.198 --> 00:14:40.514 university. I realised that was too hard. I switched to economics, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-3 00:14:40.514 --> 00:14:43.879 which I very much enjoyed. I stumbled across the concept of equally dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-4 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:47.690 and was intrigued and ended up in health economics by doing masters in York. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-5 00:14:47.690 --> 00:14:50.808 Like several of you here, that's kind of your we just want the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-6 00:14:50.808 --> 00:14:54.421 pictures just to give answers out. Now many of us go down that route and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-7 00:14:54.421 --> 00:14:58.480 York is kind of a mothership, isn't it? For many of us who are health economists, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2050-8 00:14:58.480 --> 00:14:58.678 but. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2083-0 00:14:59.578 --> 00:15:01.620 There are many routes into the field, actually, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2083-1 00:15:01.620 --> 00:15:03.620 and we've worked with many of us, James Mason, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2083-2 00:15:03.620 --> 00:15:05.961 who was recently offered this parish, was an engineer. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2083-3 00:15:05.961 --> 00:15:08.343 I think every nautical engineer or something like that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2083-4 00:15:08.343 --> 00:15:09.578 He was some kind of engineer. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2089-0 00:15:10.518 --> 00:15:12.518 I think it was. It was an engineer anyway. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2098-0 00:15:14.058 --> 00:15:17.178 We work with clinicians, dentists, pharmacists. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2111-0 00:15:18.858 --> 00:15:21.178 Statisticians, people come from all sorts of backgrounds, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2111-1 00:15:21.178 --> 00:15:22.938 not just economics, to do health economics. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2150-0 00:15:24.658 --> 00:15:28.068 And it's kind of like, I think it's also like kind of the French dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2150-1 00:15:28.068 --> 00:15:31.216 Foreign Legion of disciplines where we welcome people from. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2150-2 00:15:31.216 --> 00:15:34.206 We don't ask too much about your backgrounds to come in, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2150-3 00:15:34.206 --> 00:15:37.984 find a new home with us as long as you devote yourself to the fight for dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2150-4 00:15:37.984 --> 00:15:39.978 allocative efficiency, you're welcome. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2163-0 00:15:41.328 --> 00:15:45.691 And I think partly that reflects the fact that we're very pragmatic and problem dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2163-1 00:15:45.691 --> 00:15:46.128 focused. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2222-0 00:15:48.538 --> 00:15:52.990 And we we drawn lots of disciplines. I mean obviously economics is the obvious dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2222-1 00:15:52.990 --> 00:15:56.653 one and we draw across many fields of economics. And what we do. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2222-2 00:15:56.653 --> 00:16:00.993 But actually you know the we draw maths on stats on operational research and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2222-3 00:16:00.993 --> 00:16:03.585 modelling, we've drawn drawn lots of clinical dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2222-4 00:16:03.585 --> 00:16:07.925 specialities, you know psychology, lots of qualitative methodologies as many dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2222-5 00:16:07.925 --> 00:16:11.138 will know actually some people may be surprised to hear. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-0 00:16:11.678 --> 00:16:15.046 A part of of healthy comics too, so I think that's one of the things joys dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-1 00:16:15.046 --> 00:16:17.276 of what? Why it's such a rewarding careers is if dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-2 00:16:17.276 --> 00:16:20.325 you like that sort of thing. And I've just thought the person who, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-3 00:16:20.325 --> 00:16:22.920 when I was at Uni, couldn't go and revise in the library dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-4 00:16:22.920 --> 00:16:26.606 because I'd be reading everyone else's books rather than my own because I'm just dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-5 00:16:26.606 --> 00:16:29.656 obviously more interesting. So you have that kind of mindset and I dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-6 00:16:29.656 --> 00:16:33.479 think a lot of us in health economics do. That's why it's a very rewarding place to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-7 00:16:33.479 --> 00:16:37.257 be because you can satisfy that curiosity and that breadth of interests that a lot dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2305-8 00:16:37.257 --> 00:16:37.758 of us have. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-0 00:16:44.928 --> 00:16:49.380 So another aspect as as Gavin mentioned, was the fact that as health commissions dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-1 00:16:49.380 --> 00:16:53.722 had a chance to see the world again, a bit like the French Foreign Legion I've dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-2 00:16:53.722 --> 00:16:56.250 got, I've had the chance to see the world and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-3 00:16:56.250 --> 00:16:59.713 I was actually through joining Quarry before I joined 糖心TV. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-4 00:16:59.713 --> 00:17:03.396 I'm very much focused on on UK health economics and methods stuff, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-5 00:17:03.396 --> 00:17:07.024 but since joining work, I had a chance to to visit many wonderful dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2361-6 00:17:07.024 --> 00:17:08.728 places. This is just a handful. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2377-0 00:17:09.538 --> 00:17:13.295 I've got many, many photos like this. I could have used here and all these dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2377-1 00:17:13.295 --> 00:17:14.898 photos were taken on work trips. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2384-0 00:17:16.698 --> 00:17:19.298 I won't try and pretend that all of them are directly work related. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2451-0 00:17:21.408 --> 00:17:25.033 And there are definitely joys in just be able to travel. I mean, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2451-1 00:17:25.033 --> 00:17:29.272 their joys in hanging out with beach in Brazil and I can't recommend highly dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2451-2 00:17:29.272 --> 00:17:33.790 enough if you ever get the opportunity to go wine tasting with Martin Underwood. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2451-3 00:17:33.790 --> 00:17:38.085 Take it. It's a wonderful thing to do. That's Stellenbosch in the top right. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2451-4 00:17:38.085 --> 00:17:41.264 But it wasn't all like that before you get to, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2451-5 00:17:41.264 --> 00:17:45.448 sort of two sort of frustrated with me. And I think I'm complete skydiver. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2463-0 00:17:46.698 --> 00:17:48.586 It was. It was actually really incredibly useful dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2463-1 00:17:48.586 --> 00:17:49.858 to my work to be able to do that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2469-0 00:17:51.658 --> 00:17:53.658 And think about one of the first experiences I had. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2479-0 00:17:55.688 --> 00:18:00.088 Back me up. Probably 2013. I got to visit. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2497-0 00:18:01.778 --> 00:18:05.642 A large TB tuberculosis hospital in Blataire in Malawi, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2497-1 00:18:05.642 --> 00:18:08.058 which was a huge eye opener for me. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2532-0 00:18:10.418 --> 00:18:13.559 So many differences and a lot of challenges, as you can imagine. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2532-1 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:17.232 And one of the things I remember going around the tour and around the back, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2532-2 00:18:17.232 --> 00:18:19.648 I looked out the window and there were all these, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2532-3 00:18:19.648 --> 00:18:21.871 some tents up and there's like washing lines, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2532-4 00:18:21.871 --> 00:18:25.399 it kind of reminded me of almost there when we did our Duke of Edinburgh dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2532-5 00:18:25.399 --> 00:18:26.898 expeditions as a as a teenager. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2557-0 00:18:27.668 --> 00:18:30.810 All set up there, very sort of ramshackle, and I sort of asked the person who's dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2557-1 00:18:30.810 --> 00:18:33.874 taking me around what's going on there, what's that doing in the back of your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2557-2 00:18:33.874 --> 00:18:34.228 hospital? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2613-0 00:18:35.818 --> 00:18:40.194 And maybe I should have worked it out what that was and what they told me it dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2613-1 00:18:40.194 --> 00:18:44.798 was, is. That's where the Guardian stayed. So the point is that as I had no idea dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2613-2 00:18:44.798 --> 00:18:47.526 until you know, you really get on the ground to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2613-3 00:18:47.526 --> 00:18:50.709 understand this, they really have a massive shortage of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2613-4 00:18:50.709 --> 00:18:55.256 funding and nursing staff available. So a lot of the in the basic nursing care, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2613-5 00:18:55.256 --> 00:18:58.098 the people need their families to do it so often. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2625-0 00:18:58.598 --> 00:19:01.739 Bring someone with you when you have to stay in between length of time. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2625-1 00:19:01.739 --> 00:19:02.918 TB treatment can be months. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-0 00:19:04.458 --> 00:19:08.222 As many of you will know, so you have a guardian with you who does dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-1 00:19:08.222 --> 00:19:11.705 lots of sorts out your meals and lots of basic nursing stuff. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-2 00:19:11.705 --> 00:19:15.076 I wish I would never have understood or realised, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-3 00:19:15.076 --> 00:19:19.178 unless I've seen it for myself. And actually a lot of the work I've gone dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-4 00:19:19.178 --> 00:19:23.785 on to do in global health economics has been trying to understand and measure the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-5 00:19:23.785 --> 00:19:27.830 impact that being ill and seeking care has on on, on household poverty, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2685-6 00:19:27.830 --> 00:19:31.258 creating or or further driving people into creating poverty. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2694-0 00:19:32.138 --> 00:19:34.938 Or further driving people into it. That's been a big part of what I do. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-0 00:19:35.718 --> 00:19:39.859 And even in this age now with of teams and and we're all we're all working dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-1 00:19:39.859 --> 00:19:43.449 offline, a lot of the time, it's still there's no substitute for dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-2 00:19:43.449 --> 00:19:47.812 getting on the ground and seeing how Healthcare is delivered in facilities and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-3 00:19:47.812 --> 00:19:51.788 communities across the world. It really does bring a lot of insight and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-4 00:19:51.788 --> 00:19:54.881 direction to your research. So the wine tasting is fun, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-5 00:19:54.881 --> 00:19:59.465 but actually the experience will be able to see how Healthcare is delivered and to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2756-6 00:19:59.465 --> 00:20:02.558 understand that impact in communities across the world. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2766-0 00:20:03.298 --> 00:20:06.161 Is a wonderful privilege and one of the things I've really loved about this this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2766-1 00:20:06.161 --> 00:20:06.338 role. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2768-0 00:20:10.968 --> 00:20:11.368 So. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-0 00:20:13.098 --> 00:20:15.417 I was talking to about things that are the joys, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-1 00:20:15.417 --> 00:20:18.826 and they're also the frustrations, and I could have said that about the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-2 00:20:18.826 --> 00:20:22.709 global travel and how frustrating it is to have to live out of the suitcase every dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-3 00:20:22.709 --> 00:20:24.981 often, but I could see you all pulling out your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-4 00:20:24.981 --> 00:20:28.721 world's smallest violins if I tried that. So I won't claim that's frustration. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-5 00:20:28.721 --> 00:20:32.272 But one of the things that's a huge joy and also can be quite a challenge. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-6 00:20:32.272 --> 00:20:36.249 It goes back to this idea of how we work. So we we we're quite interdisciplinary in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2841-7 00:20:36.249 --> 00:20:36.818 how we work. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2895-0 00:20:37.598 --> 00:20:42.052 And it's not a subject to working. If you like being in your own bubble in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2895-1 00:20:42.052 --> 00:20:46.506 your own space with like minded folk, because inevitably in trials, in in, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2895-2 00:20:46.506 --> 00:20:49.891 in Policy Studies, you work with large multidisciplinary dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2895-3 00:20:49.891 --> 00:20:54.582 teams. You work with clinical experts, you work with methodologists, astitons, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2895-4 00:20:54.582 --> 00:20:58.918 sociologists, anthropologists, decision makers, health, health managers. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2898-0 00:21:00.738 --> 00:21:01.618 Members of the public. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2916-0 00:21:03.298 --> 00:21:04.988 Which is a joy. Definitely. I think for me, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2916-1 00:21:04.988 --> 00:21:08.178 I've really enjoyed having that kind of diversity of views and learning from that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2924-0 00:21:09.808 --> 00:21:12.768 But it can also be a challenge and a frustration and. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-0 00:21:14.778 --> 00:21:17.531 It does, and it's something that I've thought dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-1 00:21:17.531 --> 00:21:21.781 about more and more working through projects and I get to use a bit of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-2 00:21:21.781 --> 00:21:26.450 foreign language now, which I love. So economics is almost as bad as medicine dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-3 00:21:26.450 --> 00:21:30.222 when it comes to loving Latin, to confuse and distract people. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-4 00:21:30.222 --> 00:21:32.855 So in economics, when I've moved from math, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-5 00:21:32.855 --> 00:21:37.106 I learned terms which I love, like, mutatis mutandis, cetiris paribus. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/2991-6 00:21:37.106 --> 00:21:40.578 And my personal favourite, degustibus, non S disputandum. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-0 00:21:40.968 --> 00:21:43.810 Of that phrase, I won't translate them for you now I'm dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-1 00:21:43.810 --> 00:21:47.273 afraid if you've done laughing, you'll know what they are. If not, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-2 00:21:47.273 --> 00:21:50.839 I'm going to preserve that mystique for a few minutes. But actually, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-3 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.734 I'm going to use a French term. Even better. Therefore, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-4 00:21:53.734 --> 00:21:56.525 Massell professor now. And as you can probably guess, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-5 00:21:56.525 --> 00:21:59.160 because French is not that hidden language for us, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-6 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.088 it kind of refers to the way in which your professional training shapes and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3047-7 00:22:03.088 --> 00:22:05.208 often distorts the way you see the world. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3073-0 00:22:06.018 --> 00:22:10.092 And I think this concept originally sort of came across in quite a physical way. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3073-1 00:22:10.092 --> 00:22:13.412 So you can imagine how your job might lead to calluses or Stoops, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3073-2 00:22:13.412 --> 00:22:15.978 but that actually became a way to think about how. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3104-0 00:22:16.898 --> 00:22:21.338 The way you're trained, the way you work, the way the way that you kind of kind of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3104-1 00:22:21.338 --> 00:22:24.280 work things, you do shape a lot of in a lot of sort of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3104-2 00:22:24.280 --> 00:22:27.382 unchallenged and unconscious ways, how you see the world. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3104-3 00:22:27.382 --> 00:22:30.218 And then when you bring bring these things together. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3116-0 00:22:32.738 --> 00:22:35.606 You find there's this mutual incomprehension because we don't have the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3116-1 00:22:35.606 --> 00:22:36.778 shared understanding anymore. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3152-0 00:22:38.458 --> 00:22:41.708 So one way that manifests itself is definitely through language. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3152-1 00:22:41.708 --> 00:22:43.908 So there are lots of examples of this when, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3152-2 00:22:43.908 --> 00:22:47.958 as you'll know from your work where we'll use words and not realise that they're dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3152-3 00:22:47.958 --> 00:22:51.508 either being misunderstood or or creating completely wrong impression. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3152-4 00:22:51.508 --> 00:22:52.258 And I remember. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-0 00:22:53.138 --> 00:22:56.443 You're meeting a few months ago where STAP stations start talking about matrix dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-1 00:22:56.443 --> 00:22:58.954 decomposition and the commissions were like, no, you can't. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-2 00:22:58.954 --> 00:23:00.795 You can't say that you can't decomposition. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-3 00:23:00.795 --> 00:23:03.473 You can't talk about decomposition. It's not healthy, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-4 00:23:03.473 --> 00:23:06.778 and force that decision hasn't, you know, it was just a very technical term in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-5 00:23:06.778 --> 00:23:08.745 mathematics, hadn't really thought about that, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-6 00:23:08.745 --> 00:23:11.967 but has a very different meaning to a non statistician. But I think, I mean, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-7 00:23:11.967 --> 00:23:15.398 there are many examples of that and I'm sure a lot of you can come up with those. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3213-8 00:23:15.398 --> 00:23:17.658 But the word actually, I was thinking about for this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3217-0 00:23:18.458 --> 00:23:19.778 Was an assumption. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3223-0 00:23:21.678 --> 00:23:23.518 And what I kind of realised was. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-0 00:23:25.578 --> 00:23:29.200 For a lot of people I work with an assumption. Something you have. If you, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-1 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:31.518 if you really have to. If you haven't got data, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-2 00:23:31.518 --> 00:23:35.382 you must get data as soon as possible, and it's kind of the thing you say what? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-3 00:23:35.382 --> 00:23:37.604 You know, what you do when you assume, right? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-4 00:23:37.604 --> 00:23:40.405 That's the kind of I think that's the kind of assumption. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-5 00:23:40.405 --> 00:23:43.351 But actually coming from a maths and a modelling background, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-6 00:23:43.351 --> 00:23:47.167 assumptions are part part of what you do and they're very important and valid. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3285-7 00:23:47.167 --> 00:23:48.858 You set out your assumptions first. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3322-0 00:23:50.658 --> 00:23:54.145 And then you build on those for your analysis and then you see where your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3322-1 00:23:54.145 --> 00:23:57.679 assumptions take you, and there's nothing, nothing derogatory about making dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3322-2 00:23:57.679 --> 00:24:00.129 assumptions. It's just part part of what you do and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3322-3 00:24:00.129 --> 00:24:03.427 actually thinking about this. It's not just that we use the same word dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3322-4 00:24:03.427 --> 00:24:06.302 in different ways, but we have all these connotations to the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3322-5 00:24:06.302 --> 00:24:06.538 word. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3349-0 00:24:07.268 --> 00:24:10.068 But you don't realise until you try and discuss that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3349-1 00:24:10.068 --> 00:24:13.905 And I've had people say to me doing modelling health comics, for example, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3349-2 00:24:13.905 --> 00:24:17.068 modelling model based health economics for example research. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-0 00:24:18.618 --> 00:24:21.695 I guess and I sort of see where they're coming from after a while, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-1 00:24:21.695 --> 00:24:24.313 it just isn't kind of research they're expecting to see. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-2 00:24:24.313 --> 00:24:27.115 So another example of this then is another background thing. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-3 00:24:27.115 --> 00:24:30.928 As an economist and a modeller is you're very much thinking about decision theory. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-4 00:24:30.928 --> 00:24:34.051 A lot of the time when you work with people who come from different dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-5 00:24:34.051 --> 00:24:36.531 backgrounds, say, people are interested in open space dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3399-6 00:24:36.531 --> 00:24:37.818 medicine or or hard science. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3442-0 00:24:39.098 --> 00:24:42.880 They have a there's a whole kind of framework around scientific inquiry which dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3442-1 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.596 is different. It is a different way of seeing the world dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3442-2 00:24:45.596 --> 00:24:49.573 and then we do have some contrast about that and I think where that becomes quite dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3442-3 00:24:49.573 --> 00:24:53.210 interesting is how we think about uncertainty and those of you who know me dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3442-4 00:24:53.210 --> 00:24:57.187 well will know about my love of Bayesian methods and some of you are horrified by dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3442-5 00:24:57.187 --> 00:24:57.818 that, I know. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3460-0 00:24:59.378 --> 00:25:01.762 And I, but I think it just reflects the kind of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3460-1 00:25:01.762 --> 00:25:05.835 problems that we think we're dealing with and I kind of almost one time I thought dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3460-2 00:25:05.835 --> 00:25:06.978 the difference here is. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3471-0 00:25:08.698 --> 00:25:12.778 A lot of the statistians I work with in in the scientific inquiry there. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-0 00:25:13.428 --> 00:25:15.698 They're like uncertainty is like an infestation. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-1 00:25:15.698 --> 00:25:18.294 They're like pest controllers. We need to eliminate it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-2 00:25:18.294 --> 00:25:21.306 We need to eradicate it. But from a decision size point of view, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-3 00:25:21.306 --> 00:25:23.530 we're more like kind of wildlife photographers. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-4 00:25:23.530 --> 00:25:27.284 We love studying uncertainty in the world around us. We seem we have to have it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-5 00:25:27.284 --> 00:25:29.555 So I think. But that's all kind of comes to your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-6 00:25:29.555 --> 00:25:32.475 training and the kind of problems you're used to dealing with. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-7 00:25:32.475 --> 00:25:34.606 But we come together with these perspectives, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3530-8 00:25:34.606 --> 00:25:38.268 these different perspectives and have lots of arguments about something where. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3548-0 00:25:39.058 --> 00:25:41.709 Actually the the underlying math is all correct and true. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3548-1 00:25:41.709 --> 00:25:45.000 It's just the way it kind of fits with how we see the world is slightly dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3548-2 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:45.458 different. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-0 00:25:47.528 --> 00:25:51.003 So a couple of examples, because I've thought about this a lot and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-1 00:25:51.003 --> 00:25:54.633 I find it really interesting, fascinating and as well as challenging. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-2 00:25:54.633 --> 00:25:58.990 And there are many other examples of this. So another one is I think one thing that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-3 00:25:58.990 --> 00:26:02.206 happens when you do, if you with my background in training in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-4 00:26:02.206 --> 00:26:06.148 kind of model based evaluation and operational research management science, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-5 00:26:06.148 --> 00:26:10.453 lot of it is about developing models that are simplifications of the of the of the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3618-6 00:26:10.453 --> 00:26:11.128 world, right. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3635-0 00:26:11.938 --> 00:26:14.686 And a lot of you will have heard the famous saying we all Strat out with, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3635-1 00:26:14.686 --> 00:26:16.618 which is all models are wrong, but some are useful. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-0 00:26:18.768 --> 00:26:21.215 But so, but to build those models you have to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-1 00:26:21.215 --> 00:26:25.417 engage with the experts because you're not the expert or the model builder and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-2 00:26:25.417 --> 00:26:27.917 often so working with clinicians, for example, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-3 00:26:27.917 --> 00:26:31.854 to try and understand the National History of a disease or how treatments dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-4 00:26:31.854 --> 00:26:34.088 work. You'll try and get past some of the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-5 00:26:34.088 --> 00:26:37.971 detail because you think you can. You know it's it's not seeing the wood dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-6 00:26:37.971 --> 00:26:40.737 for the trees, but actually for the Commission that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3705-7 00:26:40.737 --> 00:26:44.568 detail is hugely important for that core role of being a diagnostician. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3722-0 00:26:45.378 --> 00:26:48.951 So you're kind of coming out from a very different point of view and that can lead dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3722-1 00:26:48.951 --> 00:26:52.138 to lots of frustrations. Well, you just kind of recognise that over time. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3733-0 00:26:52.928 --> 00:26:55.928 And finally I the last thing I'd say about this topic is. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-0 00:26:57.618 --> 00:27:00.172 We are researchers, but we don't even know I love dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-1 00:27:00.172 --> 00:27:02.522 universities. I love, I love the ivory tower. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-2 00:27:02.522 --> 00:27:05.995 I don't live in an ivory tower and we don't live in an ivory tower. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-3 00:27:05.995 --> 00:27:09.980 We work with people delivering care on the front line. We work with managers, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-4 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:12.738 we work with the public. But actually with academics, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-5 00:27:12.738 --> 00:27:16.774 we have a certain way of thinking about things and certain way certain sort of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-6 00:27:16.774 --> 00:27:20.809 expectations around processes and rigour which maybe don't sit with how people dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3793-7 00:27:20.809 --> 00:27:22.138 outside that bubble think. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3805-0 00:27:22.938 --> 00:27:24.738 And again, that can be a huge challenge in in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3805-1 00:27:24.738 --> 00:27:26.578 running these large multidisciplinary studies. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-0 00:27:27.628 --> 00:27:31.219 So this can be frustrating I think, and the definitely day-to-day I'm I'm dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-1 00:27:31.219 --> 00:27:35.296 hopefully some people will recognise this. We get these mutual frustrations through dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-2 00:27:35.296 --> 00:27:39.131 mutual gaps in understanding but we have to work past that and I think you can dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-3 00:27:39.131 --> 00:27:42.965 think about the you'll you'll probably know the story of the the blind men and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-4 00:27:42.965 --> 00:27:46.994 the elephant and each of those blind men they're holding on to bit of the elephant dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-5 00:27:46.994 --> 00:27:49.906 and they're not unsaning the elephant one's feeling a tree. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3865-6 00:27:49.906 --> 00:27:52.188 One's feeling a rock. One's feeling, you know. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3876-0 00:27:53.018 --> 00:27:54.740 I kind of I kind of what they're all feeling, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3876-1 00:27:54.740 --> 00:27:57.698 but none of them are feeling the elephant. But if they can talk to each other. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3891-0 00:27:58.698 --> 00:28:00.651 We can work out what an elephant looks like, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3891-1 00:28:00.651 --> 00:28:03.777 and I think that's what makes this fascinating and important as well as dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3891-2 00:28:03.777 --> 00:28:04.298 frustrating. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3892-0 00:28:11.338 --> 00:28:11.498 OK. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3923-0 00:28:15.208 --> 00:28:18.201 Because this is, I think, really, I'm so fascinated by this topic, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3923-1 00:28:18.201 --> 00:28:21.730 I wanted to give you an example of a project where we're we're looking at this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3923-2 00:28:21.730 --> 00:28:24.768 explicitly. So in Atara, which is a project that started last year. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3947-0 00:28:26.338 --> 00:28:30.119 Several of us are looking at the integration of TB and lung health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3947-1 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.618 services across three countries. Nigeria, Tanfania and Kenya. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3977-0 00:28:35.338 --> 00:28:39.517 And the background to this is TB is globally recognised health concern, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3977-1 00:28:39.517 --> 00:28:44.104 huge amount of attention by bodies like who and most countries will have quite dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/3977-2 00:28:44.104 --> 00:28:48.458 relatively well funded and and well monitored and effective TB programmes. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4007-0 00:28:49.728 --> 00:28:53.818 But there are other conditions that actually do cause a huge and growing dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4007-1 00:28:53.818 --> 00:28:56.564 problem in those countries. COPD, asthma, so on, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4007-2 00:28:56.564 --> 00:29:00.990 they don't have their own programmes, they get treated alongside everyone else dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4007-3 00:29:00.990 --> 00:29:03.288 in the hospitals and the clinics locally. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4019-0 00:29:04.898 --> 00:29:09.578 And actually that not only is that maybe an imbalance, but it's. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-0 00:29:12.038 --> 00:29:15.315 It it it's, it's it's. It ignores the fact that these things are dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-1 00:29:15.315 --> 00:29:18.291 related. So if you have TB, if you have quite lung health, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-2 00:29:18.291 --> 00:29:22.073 you're more likely to develop TB. If you develop TB, even if you're cured, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-3 00:29:22.073 --> 00:29:25.401 you're left with lung damage. That leaves you vulnerable to these dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-4 00:29:25.401 --> 00:29:29.435 chronic health lung health conditions. So there's a real there's the motivation dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-5 00:29:29.435 --> 00:29:32.713 is to look at kind of joined up thinking about these conditions, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-6 00:29:32.713 --> 00:29:36.545 but that creates lots of questions. What do we actually mean by integrating dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4081-7 00:29:36.545 --> 00:29:36.798 them? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4087-0 00:29:37.578 --> 00:29:40.898 Why has it not happened yet? What are the patient perspectives on this? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4118-0 00:29:41.628 --> 00:29:45.527 As economists, you know what? What the resources available and what dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4118-1 00:29:45.527 --> 00:29:49.140 what's the impact on poverty and how can they be be addressed. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4118-2 00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:53.613 So as you can see this is this is an elephant kind of problem and it can't be dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4118-3 00:29:53.613 --> 00:29:54.588 tackled in silos. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4127-0 00:30:00.108 --> 00:30:02.388 And one thing that's quite rewarding about this is. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-0 00:30:03.878 --> 00:30:07.330 And if you've explicitly recognised that and I'm in the project, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-1 00:30:07.330 --> 00:30:11.101 so we work with a multidisciplinary team, we have clinicians, experts, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-2 00:30:11.101 --> 00:30:14.287 young health from, from imperial and from the three African dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-3 00:30:14.287 --> 00:30:16.890 countries, we have myself as a health economist, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-4 00:30:16.890 --> 00:30:19.545 we have statistician, we have a social scientist, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-5 00:30:19.545 --> 00:30:22.466 anthropologist, and we've thought from the start about dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-6 00:30:22.466 --> 00:30:26.450 how we're going to work together. So the project funds three PhD students, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4189-7 00:30:26.450 --> 00:30:29.318 health economist, a social scientist and a clinician. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4208-0 00:30:30.138 --> 00:30:33.636 And there's also a postdoc whose background is in qualitative health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4208-1 00:30:33.636 --> 00:30:36.578 systems research, and we've set up a joint working group. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4218-0 00:30:37.208 --> 00:30:40.928 There was junior researchers. They come together. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-0 00:30:42.398 --> 00:30:46.061 Show each other's research plans, comment on each other's findings so they dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-1 00:30:46.061 --> 00:30:48.259 get that outside perspective from the start, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-2 00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:52.362 and we're also running workshops and meet our disciplines where we share what we're dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-3 00:30:52.362 --> 00:30:54.950 doing and we get feedback on whether it makes sense. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-4 00:30:54.950 --> 00:30:58.663 So what's my life about this project? A lot is that it's it we're trying to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-5 00:30:58.663 --> 00:31:02.570 explicitly as a priority from the start and hopefully we'll be able to see in a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4289-6 00:31:02.570 --> 00:31:06.478 few years time that it's really helped us become more insightful and effective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4322-0 00:31:13.148 --> 00:31:17.681 So here's another joy of being able to call Miss is that you can actually make a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4322-1 00:31:17.681 --> 00:31:20.647 difference, as Gavin kindly mentioned you know we we dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4322-2 00:31:20.647 --> 00:31:25.124 the work we do as health economists it directly influences UK and international dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4322-3 00:31:25.124 --> 00:31:26.468 guidance and guidelines. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4350-0 00:31:28.018 --> 00:31:32.118 It it it's also happened globally and that's one thing I've really, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4350-1 00:31:32.118 --> 00:31:36.521 really been really motivated to be involved in with lots of other health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4350-2 00:31:36.521 --> 00:31:39.778 policies to push The Who to recognise the problem of. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4369-0 00:31:41.498 --> 00:31:46.174 Impoverishment in TB and they've made WH have made the elimination of TB related dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4369-1 00:31:46.174 --> 00:31:48.138 catastrophic costs to policy goal. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4423-0 00:31:49.088 --> 00:31:52.690 And I've played a very small part in that with lots of our promise, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4423-1 00:31:52.690 --> 00:31:56.715 and that's a real a real source of pride and and sense that you're making a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4423-2 00:31:56.715 --> 00:32:01.006 difference and it's wonderful working in a in a trials unit where as you'll know dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4423-3 00:32:01.006 --> 00:32:04.926 that the trials that we do directly then go in and feed in these national dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4423-4 00:32:04.926 --> 00:32:09.057 international guidelines and change the day-to-day realities of patient care. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4423-5 00:32:09.057 --> 00:32:10.488 And that is very rewarding. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-0 00:32:14.248 --> 00:32:18.099 But with every joy comes a challenge. That's my theme today. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-1 00:32:18.099 --> 00:32:21.887 So actually the flip side of health of healthcare research, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-2 00:32:21.887 --> 00:32:25.865 I think is inevitably and rightly it's a very political topic. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-3 00:32:25.865 --> 00:32:30.600 You can't just put your research out there and have your peers applaud it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-4 00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:34.073 At conferences, you'll find you may have a very strong dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-5 00:32:34.073 --> 00:32:38.555 view about what should happen, but the role in the real world decision dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4475-6 00:32:38.555 --> 00:32:40.008 making is very complex. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4491-0 00:32:40.778 --> 00:32:43.773 There are various different special interests that lobby together or against dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4491-1 00:32:43.773 --> 00:32:46.458 each other against each other. There are all sorts of issues around. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-0 00:32:47.078 --> 00:32:51.148 How budgets get allocated and you find that you need investment in one part of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-1 00:32:51.148 --> 00:32:55.167 the system, like a local authority. But the benefits are actually accruing to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-2 00:32:55.167 --> 00:32:58.877 the NHS or many examples like that. So it makes it very difficult to to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-3 00:32:58.877 --> 00:33:02.226 advocate advocate for something when someone's bearing the pain, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-4 00:33:02.226 --> 00:33:06.399 the other one's sort of half seeing the fruit and there's a more general problem dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-5 00:33:06.399 --> 00:33:09.954 with that leads from that, which is we live in a world where there's dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-6 00:33:09.954 --> 00:33:14.128 a lot short termism a lot of the lot of the benefits that we measure and want to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4558-7 00:33:14.128 --> 00:33:14.798 abdicate for. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4576-0 00:33:15.578 --> 00:33:17.586 There are a few years or decades down the line, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4576-1 00:33:17.586 --> 00:33:20.138 and that's a challenging thing to get people to to buy into. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-0 00:33:21.888 --> 00:33:24.928 So what can we do about this? As health economists, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-1 00:33:24.928 --> 00:33:29.430 particularly for the the row at the back question for you to tomorrow? Well, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-2 00:33:29.430 --> 00:33:33.874 my my suggestion is I think there's two ways two different ways to do this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-3 00:33:33.874 --> 00:33:37.206 One is to stand your ground and advocate for what we do. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-4 00:33:37.206 --> 00:33:42.001 So you know that if we believe that the certain decision to adopt or not adopt an dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-5 00:33:42.001 --> 00:33:46.620 intervention or to adopt policy is the right one overall for maximising health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4629-6 00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:47.848 and improving health. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4636-0 00:33:48.778 --> 00:33:50.058 We should try and explain how we got to that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4650-0 00:33:52.258 --> 00:33:56.006 Conclusion. So it's it's, it's honest to explain our kind of our dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4650-1 00:33:56.006 --> 00:33:57.218 ideas as best we can. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-0 00:33:58.498 --> 00:34:02.223 But we shouldn't just assume that that is that we should never obviously assume dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-1 00:34:02.223 --> 00:34:05.203 that the problem is we're right, but we're just not understood. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-2 00:34:05.203 --> 00:34:07.903 We need to just shout louder. Maybe the problem often is, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-3 00:34:07.903 --> 00:34:09.952 is that we're answering the wrong question. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-4 00:34:09.952 --> 00:34:13.537 So that's the thing we probably need to think about a lot more S economists, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-5 00:34:13.537 --> 00:34:17.216 and I'm going to spend the rest of this lecture delving into that challenge of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4700-6 00:34:17.216 --> 00:34:19.498 what are we saying and what should we be saying? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-0 00:34:24.658 --> 00:34:27.340 Again, coming back to some of the many wonderful dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-1 00:34:27.340 --> 00:34:31.118 PhD students I've worked with. So one student was Megan was based in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-2 00:34:31.118 --> 00:34:33.581 Kenyon, and I worked with Megan on a project dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-3 00:34:33.581 --> 00:34:38.016 called Reach Out looking at investing in community health workers in East Africa dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-4 00:34:38.016 --> 00:34:42.067 who often seen as cheap labour or free labour because they're volunteers. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-5 00:34:42.067 --> 00:34:46.611 But actually a little bit of investment. We found we argued for and found a little dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4757-6 00:34:46.611 --> 00:34:49.458 bit of investment in their training and motivation. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4765-0 00:34:50.258 --> 00:34:53.218 Could make their contribution so much more effective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4808-0 00:34:54.768 --> 00:34:58.088 One question Megan was asking, I think very good question was OK. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4808-1 00:34:58.088 --> 00:35:01.106 If we can show this, can we convince people to do something dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4808-2 00:35:01.106 --> 00:35:05.030 about it? So she went and she'd come back. This idea that we do need a lot of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4808-3 00:35:05.030 --> 00:35:08.501 qualitative methods in the health economics. She went and talked to, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4808-4 00:35:08.501 --> 00:35:12.073 you know, people of ministries, local decision makers in the countries dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4808-5 00:35:12.073 --> 00:35:14.488 and asked them, is this analysis useful to you? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4834-0 00:35:16.058 --> 00:35:19.810 They basically said no, not really. And she wrote a paper with us about why dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4834-1 00:35:19.810 --> 00:35:23.761 and the kind of reasons were things like we tended to take as health economists dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4834-2 00:35:23.761 --> 00:35:27.218 working on the global scene, we tended to sort of take a perspective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-0 00:35:28.578 --> 00:35:31.555 Of global bodies, like who the Gates Foundation and those dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-1 00:35:31.555 --> 00:35:35.303 ways of thinking about resource allocation problems work quite different dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-2 00:35:35.303 --> 00:35:38.999 to the way the sort challenges that the more local decision makers had. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-3 00:35:38.999 --> 00:35:42.234 There was a focus on finance. We weren't maybe being too much. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-4 00:35:42.234 --> 00:35:45.827 The money meant the money wasn't, and we weren't thinking about other dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-5 00:35:45.827 --> 00:35:49.370 issues that were mattered locally, like access coverage of services, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-6 00:35:49.370 --> 00:35:53.220 quality of those services and the challenge you always find is you can say dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4899-7 00:35:53.220 --> 00:35:54.658 something is cost effective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4904-0 00:35:55.418 --> 00:35:56.378 I'll come back to that term. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4935-0 00:35:58.098 --> 00:36:00.556 Cost effective, but that doesn't create any more money to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4935-1 00:36:00.556 --> 00:36:02.930 fund it, does it? So you sometimes find that there's an dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4935-2 00:36:02.930 --> 00:36:04.964 implicit, very tough decision about what do you dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4935-3 00:36:04.964 --> 00:36:07.465 stop doing to fund it and stopping doing things. You know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4935-4 00:36:07.465 --> 00:36:10.178 if they're not cost effective is really hard to do politically. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4964-0 00:36:11.898 --> 00:36:15.225 Consoled easily, but it was useful for her to, I think, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4964-1 00:36:15.225 --> 00:36:19.979 identify these challenges and similarly an at another PhD student I worked with dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4964-2 00:36:19.979 --> 00:36:22.771 is now at LSC, was interested in investment in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4964-3 00:36:22.771 --> 00:36:26.218 intergenerational mental health, so basically supporting. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4976-0 00:36:27.898 --> 00:36:31.005 Particularly mothers who'd given birth recently and try and protect their mental dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/4976-1 00:36:31.005 --> 00:36:32.578 health. And she was showing that there's. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-0 00:36:33.248 --> 00:36:37.215 Huge long term benefits both of the mums but also to their children from doing dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-1 00:36:37.215 --> 00:36:39.374 this, but she was running into some of the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-2 00:36:39.374 --> 00:36:43.341 problems I've mentioned and she tried to address that in her PhD again through dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-3 00:36:43.341 --> 00:36:45.852 through, through dialogue with people rather than dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-4 00:36:45.852 --> 00:36:48.815 just saying it's cost effective, you need to listen to me. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-5 00:36:48.815 --> 00:36:52.883 And again she found that the challenge here was around trying to think about how dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-6 00:36:52.883 --> 00:36:55.946 you advocate for long term benefits in the short term world, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-7 00:36:55.946 --> 00:36:59.913 but also the importance of grounding your assumptions to use that word. Again, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5040-8 00:36:59.913 --> 00:37:00.968 if you'll forgive me. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5053-0 00:37:01.778 --> 00:37:05.475 Ground those assumptions in the way that stakeholders think what they find dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5053-1 00:37:05.475 --> 00:37:06.018 incredible. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-0 00:37:06.948 --> 00:37:10.802 So it's that constant reinforcing what you're doing based on what the people dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-1 00:37:10.802 --> 00:37:14.857 you're trying to influence think and make sure what you're assuming doesn't lose dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-2 00:37:14.857 --> 00:37:17.109 them. You don't want to lose people's credit dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-3 00:37:17.109 --> 00:37:19.863 credibility. Somewhere along the line then you lose it dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-4 00:37:19.863 --> 00:37:22.816 completely. So again, to really insights about some of the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-5 00:37:22.816 --> 00:37:26.220 practical issues that you face. And so this is a leading to an area dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-6 00:37:26.220 --> 00:37:29.324 really interesting area, I think of health economics recently dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5117-7 00:37:29.324 --> 00:37:32.428 around participatory health economics. People are calling it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5128-0 00:37:33.218 --> 00:37:36.801 We're actually trying to engage with decision makers and involve the right new dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5128-1 00:37:36.801 --> 00:37:37.618 start rather than. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5169-0 00:37:38.548 --> 00:37:42.279 Doing our thing and then putting our results out there in a conference and so dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5169-1 00:37:42.279 --> 00:37:45.627 shout out people like Harris at Birmingham who've set up a network of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5169-2 00:37:45.627 --> 00:37:49.358 both health economists and people working in integrated care boards and civil dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5169-3 00:37:49.358 --> 00:37:52.563 service to think about well, what kinds of work do we do to health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5169-4 00:37:52.563 --> 00:37:54.668 economists and is it what you need to hear? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5176-0 00:38:01.058 --> 00:38:03.898 So that's the last bit I want to talk about today. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5198-0 00:38:05.818 --> 00:38:07.996 Actually, what is the kind of evidence we're dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5198-1 00:38:07.996 --> 00:38:11.480 producing and is it the right or residence? And now I think about this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5198-2 00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:15.498 It reminds me of you may remember there was this whole joke a while ago about how. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5217-0 00:38:16.068 --> 00:38:20.474 The Daily Mail had this campaign to label everything in the world as either causing dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5217-1 00:38:20.474 --> 00:38:23.308 cancer or curing it, sometimes both at the same time. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-0 00:38:24.858 --> 00:38:28.403 And I was mad at that because sometimes it feels like we kind of do the same dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-1 00:38:28.403 --> 00:38:31.718 thing with cost effectiveness. So sometimes either we see or people see dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-2 00:38:31.718 --> 00:38:35.401 our world is coming in and saying it's cost effective. It's not cost effective, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-3 00:38:35.401 --> 00:38:38.302 it's cost effective. It's not cost effective and just a little dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-4 00:38:38.302 --> 00:38:42.032 other aside to try and illustrate this, you'll note you'll probably guess that I dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-5 00:38:42.032 --> 00:38:45.715 tried to use AI to get me a little stamp and I'd like to thought I thought this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-6 00:38:45.715 --> 00:38:47.741 isn't very good, something wrong with this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5276-7 00:38:47.741 --> 00:38:50.458 And I thought spelling I've made spelling mistake. Have I? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-0 00:38:50.998 --> 00:38:54.343 It took me a few days to realise what you probably spotted, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-1 00:38:54.343 --> 00:38:58.860 which is this the stamped in the wrong place. It's supposed to be at the bottom, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-2 00:38:58.860 --> 00:39:03.209 is it? Why would you put it on the side? And so now I've left in the Polycarp dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-3 00:39:03.209 --> 00:39:06.053 decision. Lovely illustration of don't panic about dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-4 00:39:06.053 --> 00:39:09.510 AI just yet, people. Because it can be pretty stupid and tell dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-5 00:39:09.510 --> 00:39:13.023 your students that too. I'm sure that the youngsters among you dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5331-6 00:39:13.023 --> 00:39:15.198 will have been better at using it. But. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5349-0 00:39:16.018 --> 00:39:19.003 I think that that shows the sort of things that AI will do and do race dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5349-1 00:39:19.003 --> 00:39:21.021 Jubilee, so I don't feel that we're going to be dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5349-2 00:39:21.021 --> 00:39:21.778 replaced just yet. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5363-0 00:39:26.728 --> 00:39:29.013 Well, I've thought for a long time that I feel dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5363-1 00:39:29.013 --> 00:39:31.688 a bit uncomfortable about summarising our findings as. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-0 00:39:33.008 --> 00:39:37.097 What's effectiveness and in sometimes when we work kind of enforces that we we dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-1 00:39:37.097 --> 00:39:41.186 people phrase it as we we look at the clinical and cost effectiveness of a new dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-2 00:39:41.186 --> 00:39:44.084 drug or treatment as if they're kind of similar things. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-3 00:39:44.084 --> 00:39:48.225 I think they're really not and I think what really gets hidden we we we produce dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-4 00:39:48.225 --> 00:39:52.314 these wonderful ratios where we we take the difference in cost between the new dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-5 00:39:52.314 --> 00:39:56.455 and the old we take how much better the new is than the old and if if you if it dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5434-6 00:39:56.455 --> 00:40:00.648 if it's a certain amount of benefit costs you know if it costs a certain amount. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5445-0 00:40:02.818 --> 00:40:05.098 To get the benefit you want. If it's less than that, you're fine. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5445-1 00:40:05.098 --> 00:40:05.858 You're cost effective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5493-0 00:40:06.318 --> 00:40:10.603 If it costs too much to get benefit, you want you're not cost effective and so dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5493-1 00:40:10.603 --> 00:40:14.346 we use all these jog in terms like ISIS and we presented this stuff. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5493-2 00:40:14.346 --> 00:40:18.578 But actually what I think that sometimes hides quite importantly is the value dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5493-3 00:40:18.578 --> 00:40:22.538 judgments involved because I think really what we mean when we say cross dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5493-4 00:40:22.538 --> 00:40:26.661 effectiveness is we're trying to help people decide how to best use limited dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5493-5 00:40:26.661 --> 00:40:27.638 resources we have. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5501-0 00:40:29.138 --> 00:40:30.958 And inevitably, actually, when you sit down and think about it, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5501-1 00:40:30.958 --> 00:40:31.698 this is a value judgement. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5531-0 00:40:33.298 --> 00:40:36.246 It's political. It has to be. It depends also depends on who's asking. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5531-1 00:40:36.246 --> 00:40:39.235 And we do know this as S economist. We'll always start by saying, well, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5531-2 00:40:39.235 --> 00:40:42.017 first you need to decide on your perspective. Your decision maker. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5531-3 00:40:42.017 --> 00:40:45.048 Then you can't and must forget, as we just go along and start doing ISIS dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5531-4 00:40:45.048 --> 00:40:45.298 again. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5556-0 00:40:47.058 --> 00:40:51.089 So I think maybe we need to and this is this is on us as health economists to try dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5556-1 00:40:51.089 --> 00:40:54.678 and make this a bit clearer in our discussions and and so in my last few dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5556-2 00:40:54.678 --> 00:40:56.498 minutes I'm going to try and explore. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5561-0 00:40:58.018 --> 00:40:58.978 Some ways we might want to do that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5582-0 00:41:01.698 --> 00:41:04.616 So you might think that even cost OK, well costs fine. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5582-1 00:41:04.616 --> 00:41:07.376 Surely cost is a is a technical and dry and boring, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5582-2 00:41:07.376 --> 00:41:09.818 but everyone can agree on what cost is right. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5603-0 00:41:11.498 --> 00:41:15.283 This is perhaps an example though of that kind of language issue I pointed out, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5603-1 00:41:15.283 --> 00:41:18.218 where as health economists, we know who the when we say cost. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5621-0 00:41:18.728 --> 00:41:21.476 Using that word as a synonym for input resources, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5621-1 00:41:21.476 --> 00:41:25.489 things you have that can do good, but I think a lot of people hear costs dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5621-2 00:41:25.489 --> 00:41:27.248 and they think money in budgets. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-0 00:41:28.818 --> 00:41:31.528 And there's a difference that we need to flag up, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-1 00:41:31.528 --> 00:41:35.974 because often and you'll find the most important resource that you're looking at. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-2 00:41:35.974 --> 00:41:38.359 Allocating isn't money. It's time the time, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-3 00:41:38.359 --> 00:41:40.744 the valuable time of clinicians and others, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-4 00:41:40.744 --> 00:41:43.238 and the valuable time of patients and carers. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-5 00:41:43.238 --> 00:41:46.871 That's actually the usually the most important resource. Not many, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5672-6 00:41:46.871 --> 00:41:50.178 but also how you value that resource, how you measure value. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-0 00:41:50.548 --> 00:41:54.573 Depends on who's asking. Again, it does. So we could have example of this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-1 00:41:54.573 --> 00:41:58.705 So one is there's a project called Milestone we did where we were looking at dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-2 00:41:58.705 --> 00:42:02.892 psychiatrist managing the transition from adolescent services to adult mental dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-3 00:42:02.892 --> 00:42:06.917 services. So I can take milestones, still a traumatic word for some of us. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-4 00:42:06.917 --> 00:42:10.835 So sorry to bring it up again, but you can ask afterwards as to why that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-5 00:42:10.835 --> 00:42:13.089 is. But I haven't got any days to go into dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5741-6 00:42:13.089 --> 00:42:15.988 that now. But anyway, one thing we didn't master was. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5760-0 00:42:16.778 --> 00:42:19.742 We asked the psychiatrist, the child psychiatrist, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5760-1 00:42:19.742 --> 00:42:24.334 how much time do you spend assessing whether your patient needs to go to adult dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5760-2 00:42:24.334 --> 00:42:24.858 services? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-0 00:42:25.528 --> 00:42:29.627 And if so, what kind of needs they have? And I don't want to put him back and said dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-1 00:42:29.627 --> 00:42:33.034 the interview in Croatia, wherever it was said, the Commission said, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-2 00:42:33.034 --> 00:42:36.590 told us they spend as much time, but they usually do it when they're in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-3 00:42:36.590 --> 00:42:39.405 the shower, you know, a bit like Archimedes in the bath. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-4 00:42:39.405 --> 00:42:43.405 They did all their best thinking in the shower. Does that count? Is that a cost? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-5 00:42:43.405 --> 00:42:46.369 In some ways? No, because your trust isn't paying for that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-6 00:42:46.369 --> 00:42:50.171 But actually it is a use of valuable time that could be done to use for many dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5820-7 00:42:50.171 --> 00:42:52.888 different things. So it kind of maybe does it doesn't. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5841-0 00:42:54.018 --> 00:42:56.918 And another example. So there are many examples like this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5841-1 00:42:56.918 --> 00:42:59.720 When you dig into it. So I've mentioned community health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5841-2 00:42:59.720 --> 00:43:02.129 workers. One problem is often they get seen as a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5841-3 00:43:02.129 --> 00:43:02.818 free resource. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5868-0 00:43:03.788 --> 00:43:06.824 And therefore, using the cost of 0. But actually that is a valuable resource. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5868-1 00:43:06.824 --> 00:43:09.587 Their time is valuable, but again, it kind of depends on who's asking. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5868-2 00:43:09.587 --> 00:43:11.884 So from a budgetary point of view, people might say, well, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5868-3 00:43:11.884 --> 00:43:13.908 I'm not paying for it, so why not worried about it? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-0 00:43:15.458 --> 00:43:18.302 Is it does evaluate in the cost as a value judgement, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-1 00:43:18.302 --> 00:43:22.253 and perhaps the most important of all, I think is we know that that a huge dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-2 00:43:22.253 --> 00:43:26.572 amount of resource involves people caring for their loved ones when they're sick, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-3 00:43:26.572 --> 00:43:29.838 so informal carers, and again that isn't some of the NHS pays dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-4 00:43:29.838 --> 00:43:32.472 for so often we might exclude that from analysis, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-5 00:43:32.472 --> 00:43:36.581 but there's growing recognition on how important it is and if an intervention dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5928-6 00:43:36.581 --> 00:43:40.058 reduces the burden on families and how much they have to provide. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5957-0 00:43:41.158 --> 00:43:43.791 We shouldn't ignore that. Then we'll be we'll be doing an dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5957-1 00:43:43.791 --> 00:43:46.470 intervention that benefits carers a deservice wouldn't we? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5957-2 00:43:46.470 --> 00:43:49.377 So even just you might think it was quite boring and technical, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/5957-3 00:43:49.377 --> 00:43:52.238 like cost can have a loss of judgement and subjectivity in it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-0 00:43:54.728 --> 00:43:57.392 But actually, as I keep coming back to my my theme of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-1 00:43:57.392 --> 00:44:00.549 today, valuing the real, the real challenge in health policy is dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-2 00:44:00.549 --> 00:44:02.917 value. And again you have these sort of cliches dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-3 00:44:02.917 --> 00:44:06.666 you you lean on when you're teaching off. You've been teaching for a while. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-4 00:44:06.666 --> 00:44:10.218 One of those is I say to new students in health economics. OK, imagine. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-5 00:44:10.218 --> 00:44:13.622 So you're buying something. It could be as simple as a pair of shoes dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-6 00:44:13.622 --> 00:44:17.224 or it can be as, like a house. The price tag's the simple bit. Actually, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-7 00:44:17.224 --> 00:44:21.072 the hard bit is working out to drop the house a over here or house to be over dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6018-8 00:44:21.072 --> 00:44:21.368 there. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6042-0 00:44:22.178 --> 00:44:25.210 Trying to balance those pros and cons balance those benefits, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6042-1 00:44:25.210 --> 00:44:28.928 values them against each other when they're so different and the same thing dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6042-2 00:44:28.928 --> 00:44:30.298 is true in health economics. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6053-0 00:44:31.058 --> 00:44:32.894 And I want to talk a bit more about quality, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6053-1 00:44:32.894 --> 00:44:35.098 which we use every day as a way of trying to do this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6059-0 00:44:37.538 --> 00:44:38.858 And the thing I want to point out. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6065-0 00:44:41.658 --> 00:44:43.949 As you may well know, there's a two step process involving dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6065-1 00:44:43.949 --> 00:44:44.338 qualities. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-0 00:44:46.618 --> 00:44:49.002 So the first thing is you have a questionnaire, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-1 00:44:49.002 --> 00:44:51.187 a lot of you all know about this. You have. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-2 00:44:51.187 --> 00:44:54.763 It's not EQ5D which basically asked people to rate their health on five dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-3 00:44:54.763 --> 00:44:57.396 dimensions. And the idea is that these 5 dimensions, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-4 00:44:57.396 --> 00:45:00.923 mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain and anxiety or depression, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-5 00:45:00.923 --> 00:45:04.449 no matter what your illness is, they just pick up your quality of your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6115-6 00:45:04.449 --> 00:45:04.698 life. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6131-0 00:45:06.378 --> 00:45:09.103 And how the answer is affecting that and that's patient reported, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6131-1 00:45:09.103 --> 00:45:11.458 but then we apply a formula to then calculate a quality. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6161-0 00:45:12.008 --> 00:45:15.482 That isn't coming from the patient. It's a separate step, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6161-1 00:45:15.482 --> 00:45:19.855 and that's coming from people, subjective judgements about, for example, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6161-2 00:45:19.855 --> 00:45:24.289 how much is the value of taking someone paying from Level 3, for example, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6161-3 00:45:24.289 --> 00:45:25.008 which means. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6195-0 00:45:26.738 --> 00:45:30.993 About paying a lot of time to level 2, which is on a moderate amount of pain dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6195-1 00:45:30.993 --> 00:45:34.254 compared to, say, going on your usual activities from two, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6195-2 00:45:34.254 --> 00:45:37.459 I'm having some trouble to 1 so we have a scoring system. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6195-3 00:45:37.459 --> 00:45:41.218 It's totally based on people's judgements. It's totally subjective. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6249-0 00:45:42.418 --> 00:45:45.279 Why is that? But again depends on who you're asking, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6249-1 00:45:45.279 --> 00:45:49.707 so I just want to illustrate this point by looking at how when you do that second dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6249-2 00:45:49.707 --> 00:45:53.757 step, how it depends where you're asking. So let's take this health state. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6249-3 00:45:53.757 --> 00:45:57.968 I can see someone might fill in one of these EQ ID forms and said I've got no dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6249-4 00:45:57.968 --> 00:46:02.126 problems with my mobility or self-care. I've got some problems with my usual dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6249-5 00:46:02.126 --> 00:46:06.338 activities and I'm feeling a bit anxious and depressed. I'm in a lot of pain. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6266-0 00:46:07.138 --> 00:46:09.830 And they could be they could be suffering from cancer treatments. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6266-1 00:46:09.830 --> 00:46:11.706 They could have back pain. It doesn't matter. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6266-2 00:46:11.706 --> 00:46:13.338 The point is it's a genetic measure now. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6295-0 00:46:14.318 --> 00:46:17.204 How is? How is that state valued relative to full dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6295-1 00:46:17.204 --> 00:46:21.765 health and it really depends on where you're asking. So in Japan, for example, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6295-2 00:46:21.765 --> 00:46:25.345 it gets a weighting of . 547 where one is perfect out of good dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6295-3 00:46:25.345 --> 00:46:26.558 health, zero is dead. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6316-0 00:46:28.098 --> 00:46:33.458 Whereas down, say the UK is about 1. 157 and try and put that in a bit of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6316-1 00:46:33.458 --> 00:46:36.863 context, one way to think about this is if you dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6316-2 00:46:36.863 --> 00:46:37.298 could. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6349-0 00:46:38.938 --> 00:46:42.061 Live for a year. Imagine going to live for a year in this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6349-1 00:46:42.061 --> 00:46:45.884 House. In this health state. Imagine how the treatment that shown your dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6349-2 00:46:45.884 --> 00:46:49.653 life but brought you actual health. So your quality of life improved, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6349-3 00:46:49.653 --> 00:46:53.099 the quality went down. At what point would you think that was a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6349-4 00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:54.338 trade off worth making? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6370-0 00:46:55.088 --> 00:46:58.568 So for Japanese person, they've only made that trade off. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6370-1 00:46:58.568 --> 00:47:02.288 If you were to to give them around six or seven months of of. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6397-0 00:47:04.458 --> 00:47:07.645 Full health. If it was less than that, they'd say no thank you. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6397-1 00:47:07.645 --> 00:47:10.883 I'll live like this. I'll. I'll. I'll suck it up for auk person. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6397-2 00:47:10.883 --> 00:47:14.419 This implies that in fewer to just given two months of perfect health, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6397-3 00:47:14.419 --> 00:47:17.458 they'd take that. Compared to a year or something like this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-0 00:47:18.878 --> 00:47:22.567 And I just mentioned because all these calculations are going on behind the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-1 00:47:22.567 --> 00:47:26.403 scenes when we presented with this cost quality ratios and how subjective they dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-2 00:47:26.403 --> 00:47:29.267 are and how much they vary depending on who you're asking. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-3 00:47:29.267 --> 00:47:33.006 So I really want to put your attention on that and just the other thing that dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-4 00:47:33.006 --> 00:47:36.501 quickly is the picture on the bottom left, which might look like a sun, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-5 00:47:36.501 --> 00:47:38.929 what sunspots, but the clinicians will recognise, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-6 00:47:38.929 --> 00:47:42.570 this is actually the back of an eye that's suffering from diabetic eye eye dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6479-7 00:47:42.570 --> 00:47:44.998 damage. So one thing we did as well we looked at. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6487-0 00:47:46.938 --> 00:47:49.218 Screening for eye damage in diabetics in Malawi. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6530-0 00:47:50.138 --> 00:47:54.230 We found that the impact of having visual impairment in malaria is very different dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6530-1 00:47:54.230 --> 00:47:56.825 to the UK. If you think about it as kind of you can dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6530-2 00:47:56.825 --> 00:48:00.917 sort of see what that is because things like driving and reading are so much more dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6530-3 00:48:00.917 --> 00:48:04.210 important than UK national Malawi for lots of contextual factors, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6530-4 00:48:04.210 --> 00:48:05.658 lots of subjective judgments. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-0 00:48:10.898 --> 00:48:15.317 So only that just the the problem we make about this is we can we can use this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-1 00:48:15.317 --> 00:48:19.625 things like EQ5D and we do them because we're thinking about very high level dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-2 00:48:19.625 --> 00:48:22.982 decisions about do we prioritise cancer over mental health. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-3 00:48:22.982 --> 00:48:25.667 So we need something that expands those things. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-4 00:48:25.667 --> 00:48:30.143 But Even so the quality can miss so much of benefit and we don't want to do it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-5 00:48:30.143 --> 00:48:34.227 We don't have the right as health economists to say if it doesn't fit in dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6592-6 00:48:34.227 --> 00:48:36.018 our EQ5D we don't care about it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6606-0 00:48:36.818 --> 00:48:40.621 So we need to think about capturing value properly and there's so many measures dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6606-1 00:48:40.621 --> 00:48:42.618 like ice cap that have been developed and. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-0 00:48:43.238 --> 00:48:47.173 Couple web webs and we had a PhD student again another PhD student I worked with dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-1 00:48:47.173 --> 00:48:50.720 who enabled us to use Wem Web, which is a well-being measure to do this. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-2 00:48:50.720 --> 00:48:54.509 So we need to make sure we're not missing out on things that are important to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-3 00:48:54.509 --> 00:48:57.716 people when we we we try and value the benefits of any treatment. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-4 00:48:57.716 --> 00:49:01.603 So there's all these things happening. There's comparison of the ratios and the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-5 00:49:01.603 --> 00:49:05.052 point I'm trying to make I think today is we can present these ratios. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-6 00:49:05.052 --> 00:49:08.891 We can present these lobby technical diagrams but we're hiding a lot of values dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-7 00:49:08.891 --> 00:49:12.826 and behind us that we don't not because we shouldn't be making them but actually dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6677-8 00:49:12.826 --> 00:49:13.118 maybe. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6700-0 00:49:13.838 --> 00:49:16.082 We do. We want people to be aware of them and to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6700-1 00:49:16.082 --> 00:49:18.098 challenge them and to work with us on them. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6700-2 00:49:18.098 --> 00:49:21.579 I think that that's the key thing we need to maybe be better at doing South dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6700-3 00:49:21.579 --> 00:49:22.038 colonists. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-0 00:49:23.898 --> 00:49:27.552 And it's finally very and then very quickly just to flag up that we do dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-1 00:49:27.552 --> 00:49:30.023 understand, it's not just how much health we're dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-2 00:49:30.023 --> 00:49:33.678 creating, it's who benefits. So another thing we need to do and we are dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-3 00:49:33.678 --> 00:49:37.745 doing better is understanding not just how a treatment effects health overall, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-4 00:49:37.745 --> 00:49:40.782 but is it particularly benefiting some groups over others. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-5 00:49:40.782 --> 00:49:44.231 So there's some really interesting innovations around what we call dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-6 00:49:44.231 --> 00:49:48.195 distributive cost effect analysis. And I know that's something we're looking dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-7 00:49:48.195 --> 00:49:50.975 to do more of in the trials in, in the, in tune here. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6771-8 00:49:50.975 --> 00:49:53.858 And we hope we're coming to some of the trials that we. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6802-0 00:49:54.488 --> 00:49:58.265 To really help us to show that we don't just care about maximising things we care dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6802-1 00:49:58.265 --> 00:50:01.351 about who benefits as well. So this is again another exciting area dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6802-2 00:50:01.351 --> 00:50:03.793 where we are trying to make ourselves more relevant. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6802-3 00:50:03.793 --> 00:50:05.728 I think it's the point I'm trying to make. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6806-0 00:50:09.958 --> 00:50:11.118 So to summarise. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-0 00:50:13.898 --> 00:50:18.302 The reason why I had problems is is fascinating and why I enjoy working on it dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-1 00:50:18.302 --> 00:50:22.085 is because we are trying to. We are trying to maximise the health. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-2 00:50:22.085 --> 00:50:25.642 You can produce the society for giving resources that we have, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-3 00:50:25.642 --> 00:50:29.877 which are limited and this requires some difficult and challenging values. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-4 00:50:29.877 --> 00:50:33.717 It's not a technical thing to do and one thing maybe we need to do, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-5 00:50:33.717 --> 00:50:37.726 we need to be better at as health economists is making that a bit more dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6862-6 00:50:37.726 --> 00:50:38.178 obvious. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6880-0 00:50:39.058 --> 00:50:43.520 And not being afraid of illustrating that and only way we can do that is through dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6880-1 00:50:43.520 --> 00:50:47.818 engaging with others, with clinicians, with the public, with decision makers. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-0 00:50:48.718 --> 00:50:52.335 And that's when we we are we are doing, we continue to do loyal and I think dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-1 00:50:52.335 --> 00:50:55.810 that's only going to make us more effective. So as I do finally wrap up, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-2 00:50:55.810 --> 00:50:58.999 so I've got a bit over time, but I don't want to seem like I'm not dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-3 00:50:58.999 --> 00:51:01.855 quite ready to retire yet. I can't really afford to anyway. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-4 00:51:01.855 --> 00:51:04.663 We've still got quite a lot of years left in the mortgage. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-5 00:51:04.663 --> 00:51:08.519 So you've given me 13 wonderful years in the medical school maybe hopefully I'll dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-6 00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:11.280 have a 13 more. There are lots of projects I'm working on dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-7 00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:13.850 at the moment. There's that I'm really excited about. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6951-8 00:51:13.850 --> 00:51:16.278 There's the correct confederation of trials which. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6967-0 00:51:17.058 --> 00:51:20.487 Is looking at trying to do health economics and trials work across multiple dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/6967-1 00:51:20.487 --> 00:51:22.338 related trials in the same patient group. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-0 00:51:24.088 --> 00:51:27.723 Jobs working with the Institute of Employment Research here at 糖心TV. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-1 00:51:27.723 --> 00:51:31.660 There's currently working on transform, looking at using some of those health dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-2 00:51:31.660 --> 00:51:35.699 point measures I've mentioned the broader ones to understand how we can improve dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-3 00:51:35.699 --> 00:51:39.536 mental health in Nigeria and Bangladesh and as well as the entire project I dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-4 00:51:39.536 --> 00:51:43.525 mentioned and then many more to come. But I think the main thing is the reason dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-5 00:51:43.525 --> 00:51:46.806 why I want to stay here for another 13 years. It's all you guys, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7035-6 00:51:46.806 --> 00:51:47.968 the people I work with. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7044-0 00:51:49.138 --> 00:51:53.018 In chair and the CTU Cross University and all our collaborators. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7056-0 00:51:53.848 --> 00:51:58.288 With only the occasional very, very exception, the milestone. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-0 00:52:00.178 --> 00:52:03.460 Are wonderful people, and that's what makes us coming to work a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-1 00:52:03.460 --> 00:52:05.768 joy. So thank you all so much for for giving dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-2 00:52:05.768 --> 00:52:09.922 me this satisfaction and letting me to find a home. I'm happy to take questions, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-3 00:52:09.922 --> 00:52:13.461 but it's a lovely day outside. I understand. If you want to get out, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-4 00:52:13.461 --> 00:52:16.385 then sun and enjoy your lunches. So I'll just say again. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-5 00:52:16.385 --> 00:52:20.590 Thank you all so much for your attention today and for giving this opportunity to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7110-6 00:52:20.590 --> 00:52:23.258 have such an enjoyable career. Thank you very much. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7164-0 00:52:41.688 --> 00:52:46.848 Tech fantastic. Thank you. You know, Jason and some really great insights into dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7164-1 00:52:46.848 --> 00:52:51.486 the work that you you've done, we've got about 5 minutes for questions dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7164-2 00:52:51.486 --> 00:52:56.647 that people have questions and I will bring the microphone benefits of working dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7164-3 00:52:56.647 --> 00:53:01.808 with people that are online and actually your your what people are thinking of dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7164-4 00:53:01.808 --> 00:53:03.768 their questions, your summary. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7191-0 00:53:04.578 --> 00:53:08.836 About the team and the thing that makes you know 糖心TV, so special was actually, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7191-1 00:53:08.836 --> 00:53:11.299 you know, the call with the question that I was dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7191-2 00:53:11.299 --> 00:53:14.378 going to ask because it was fairly clear through your talk. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-0 00:53:14.968 --> 00:53:17.928 That you've worked with some fantastic, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-1 00:53:17.928 --> 00:53:22.486 teams and I think that's one of the things that strikes me about 糖心TV and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-2 00:53:22.486 --> 00:53:26.630 tune is the collegiality and how everybody, you know, pulls together. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-3 00:53:26.630 --> 00:53:30.241 And I guess it's a question for you to reflect on, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-4 00:53:30.241 --> 00:53:33.616 what are the core ingredients that are brought together, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-5 00:53:33.616 --> 00:53:38.056 what you've described as really quite interdisciplinary groups to tackle a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7257-6 00:53:38.056 --> 00:53:40.128 whole, you know, range of subjects? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7274-0 00:53:40.938 --> 00:53:45.231 You know that enables, you know, people to, you know, to pull together and, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7274-1 00:53:45.231 --> 00:53:47.942 you know, work in that kind of team approach to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7274-2 00:53:47.942 --> 00:53:48.338 things. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-0 00:53:51.088 --> 00:53:54.383 I think my location a lot. I don't it's it's, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-1 00:53:54.383 --> 00:53:58.149 there's so much to it. I think it boils down to shared respect, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-2 00:53:58.149 --> 00:54:01.267 communication. The fact that we all want to do this, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-3 00:54:01.267 --> 00:54:03.915 achieve the same thing. And I think, Jeremy, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-4 00:54:03.915 --> 00:54:08.152 the people that work in this field, they're motivated by need to make a dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-5 00:54:08.152 --> 00:54:12.624 difference. And they're often not. It's not so much about personal success, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7333-6 00:54:12.624 --> 00:54:13.448 personal egos. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7345-0 00:54:14.258 --> 00:54:16.417 But also an openness to different points of view, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7345-1 00:54:16.417 --> 00:54:19.138 and I think almost there's bit of self selection that goes on. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-0 00:54:19.818 --> 00:54:23.400 That if you want to be a, you know a, you know, a big deal, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-1 00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:27.034 you can do that in many ways, but if you enjoy being part of the team, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-2 00:54:27.034 --> 00:54:30.054 if you enjoy having impact, if you enjoy having, you know, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-3 00:54:30.054 --> 00:54:33.841 working with people that will think very differently to you, you'll stay. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-4 00:54:33.841 --> 00:54:37.833 So I think some of it's self selection we try and you know we try and be very dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-5 00:54:37.833 --> 00:54:41.006 friendly. We try and be very commutative. I know that CTU is, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7407-6 00:54:41.006 --> 00:54:44.538 you know it stands for cake Trials unit because we do one for cakes. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7439-0 00:54:45.338 --> 00:54:48.732 And other things like that matter too. And I'll shout out to people like James dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7439-1 00:54:48.732 --> 00:54:51.783 and your well-being initiatives. So I think it's a combination of self dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7439-2 00:54:51.783 --> 00:54:54.835 selection and one being being on the same track and the fact we don't, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7439-3 00:54:54.835 --> 00:54:57.585 we don't just let it happen, we do actively care about people's dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7439-4 00:54:57.585 --> 00:54:58.058 well-being. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7441-0 00:55:00.168 --> 00:55:00.608 Thank you. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7449-0 00:55:02.258 --> 00:55:05.618 Did anyone either online or in person have a question? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7456-0 00:55:11.958 --> 00:55:14.478 Hello I knew you would see. You know what? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7462-0 00:55:19.848 --> 00:55:21.168 Yeah. OK. Can you hear me now? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7476-0 00:55:23.098 --> 00:55:29.738 It's really lovely to hear about all your research. It hasn't yet likewise 13 years. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7492-0 00:55:32.738 --> 00:55:37.698 But understanding, understand please, what does the health monitor do? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7495-0 00:55:39.938 --> 00:55:40.418 What is the? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7498-0 00:55:42.058 --> 00:55:42.378 What, sorry. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7505-0 00:55:45.298 --> 00:55:47.218 What does it do? You mean that the the VAS? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7520-0 00:55:48.488 --> 00:55:50.850 I mean, I think that's a question for all the can. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7520-1 00:55:50.850 --> 00:55:53.768 I think if you ask who you ask, you'll get a different result. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-0 00:55:55.338 --> 00:55:59.121 The the people tend to use the vows that connect the vows and do we use it much? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-1 00:55:59.121 --> 00:56:02.999 And my experience and I've been to what other my colleagues think. Often we don't, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-2 00:56:02.999 --> 00:56:05.708 but we have found. Sometimes people do find the vas a lot dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-3 00:56:05.708 --> 00:56:07.764 easier. So just for those of you who don't, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-4 00:56:07.764 --> 00:56:10.520 so you're you're filling your answer those five questions, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-5 00:56:10.520 --> 00:56:12.856 you'll say how your health is in five dimensions, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-6 00:56:12.856 --> 00:56:15.098 you have like a thermometer that says on scale, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-7 00:56:15.098 --> 00:56:18.228 naughty to 100 where 100 is wonderful. Naughty basically I'm dead. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7592-8 00:56:18.228 --> 00:56:20.938 I can't barely cross the line. How are you feeling today? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7652-0 00:56:21.638 --> 00:56:25.974 When we asked both of those, then we tend not to use the VAS as much, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7652-1 00:56:25.974 --> 00:56:31.053 but I think maybe we should be using that more because maybe it's a more it comes dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7652-2 00:56:31.053 --> 00:56:36.195 down to what is what do people find more intuitive and maybe and maybe I don't and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7652-3 00:56:36.195 --> 00:56:39.973 this is my expertise. Colleagues may step in and say there's dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7652-4 00:56:39.973 --> 00:56:44.247 gurvans to answer this question, but maybe actually the vast is what dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7652-5 00:56:44.247 --> 00:56:46.478 people find, it's usually better so. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7702-0 00:56:47.258 --> 00:56:50.717 It's there. People should use it, but we often slips by and the key thing I dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7702-1 00:56:50.717 --> 00:56:54.403 think to come back to my themes today is maybe we should asking our participants dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7702-2 00:56:54.403 --> 00:56:57.817 what they think about the Vads. So over to your process evaluation guides, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7702-3 00:56:57.817 --> 00:57:00.365 what do they think about do they do they like the Vars, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7702-4 00:57:00.365 --> 00:57:02.778 do they like the thermometer? Do they find it silly? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7721-0 00:57:03.338 --> 00:57:06.847 Should do anything we should be using it more. Let them tell us what to do with it. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7721-1 00:57:06.847 --> 00:57:09.855 I think maybe I'll bring in my answer. Thank you, Alan. Great question. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7721-2 00:57:09.855 --> 00:57:10.858 I think that was coming. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7728-0 00:57:13.258 --> 00:57:15.418 Great. OK. Well, I think in the interests of. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7731-0 00:57:17.978 --> 00:57:19.178 Thank you very much, Jason. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7741-0 00:57:21.018 --> 00:57:24.298 Lovely to know where you disappear after what you do. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7748-0 00:57:26.738 --> 00:57:28.058 When we when we come. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7754-0 00:57:31.778 --> 00:57:33.418 Question is about time scales and. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7756-0 00:57:35.898 --> 00:57:36.778 Briefly, a lot of times. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7776-0 00:57:37.468 --> 00:57:42.751 Because if your PhD students who are working to a type of timescale producing dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7776-1 00:57:42.751 --> 00:57:45.868 themselves to get their PhD on this original. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7810-0 00:57:49.818 --> 00:57:54.193 Trials taken by the trials, which you've got a separate time scale. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7810-1 00:57:54.193 --> 00:57:57.218 You know the governments have got time scales, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7810-2 00:57:57.218 --> 00:58:02.558 they must really in a sense frustrating your way to balance all these time scales. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7810-3 00:58:02.558 --> 00:58:07.127 How long does a project need to? And it's a very difficult question to dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7810-4 00:58:07.127 --> 00:58:07.578 answer. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7827-0 00:58:08.128 --> 00:58:14.561 Project need to go on for before you can see an effectiveness coming out of the dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7827-1 00:58:14.561 --> 00:58:15.848 work being done. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7842-0 00:58:17.498 --> 00:58:22.458 Changing in practise and benefits I mean how long do you keep? dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7875-0 00:58:24.778 --> 00:58:28.195 So I'm reminded that when you ask that question, Peter, thank you. Again, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7875-1 00:58:28.195 --> 00:58:31.797 I didn't know what question you were going to ask. Like Helen, I had an idea. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7875-2 00:58:31.797 --> 00:58:34.245 I had no idea. So that I think of my feet the when I dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7875-3 00:58:34.245 --> 00:58:36.323 started as training as an accountant, I was. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7875-4 00:58:36.323 --> 00:58:40.018 When someone said if your senior sends you an e-mail, then says this is urgent. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-0 00:58:40.798 --> 00:58:45.152 And you have to reply by I mean coming out of university, I said end of the week, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-1 00:58:45.152 --> 00:58:49.613 the great answer was like within the hour. So I think there's definitely part of it dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-2 00:58:49.613 --> 00:58:53.331 is different ways of thinking but also balancing this rigour and this dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-3 00:58:53.331 --> 00:58:57.314 effectiveness and there's no I mean there's a trade off I think inevitably dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-4 00:58:57.314 --> 00:59:01.403 and I've been I think wolves will have different views on that trade off and dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-5 00:59:01.403 --> 00:59:05.598 it's a mix because in some ways you do need years to run a definitive clinical dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7940-6 00:59:05.598 --> 00:59:08.838 trial is my impression others will know it's better than me. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/7944-0 00:59:09.578 --> 00:59:10.418 And there's a risk of getting it wrong. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-0 00:59:11.258 --> 00:59:14.467 But then if you talk to people in government or in in care boards, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-1 00:59:14.467 --> 00:59:16.575 they may need an answer like within a week. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-2 00:59:16.575 --> 00:59:19.546 So I guess part of it is knowing what we can do as academics. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-3 00:59:19.546 --> 00:59:22.756 We're not Tracy trained to do that, and there are people in state, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-4 00:59:22.756 --> 00:59:25.055 civil service or boards who can. So there's no, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-5 00:59:25.055 --> 00:59:28.648 there's no single answer to your question. I never give a straight on yes, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-6 00:59:28.648 --> 00:59:31.235 no answer to any question. People will tell you that. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-7 00:59:31.235 --> 00:59:34.924 But many of the things to do is think that we different different people can dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8005-8 00:59:34.924 --> 00:59:36.458 tackle different different ways. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8017-0 00:59:37.258 --> 00:59:39.180 We can't. We can't do rapid artists of things, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8017-1 00:59:39.180 --> 00:59:40.898 but we do need to work with people who do. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8056-0 00:59:41.678 --> 00:59:44.423 The stuff we do, I think, does take years rather than months, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8056-1 00:59:44.423 --> 00:59:47.922 but that doesn't mean we can't engage with and talk to people who need answers dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8056-2 00:59:47.922 --> 00:59:51.465 next week and see you know how much we can guide what they're doing and and how dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8056-3 00:59:51.465 --> 00:59:54.255 much we might say, well, actually hold on here and how much we dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8056-4 00:59:54.255 --> 00:59:55.318 might be willing to say. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-0 00:59:56.898 --> 00:59:59.115 OK. We think we're sorry you're coming from. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-1 00:59:59.115 --> 01:00:02.613 You need to do something now. Go ahead and do it. So we do need years, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-2 01:00:02.613 --> 01:00:05.027 I think. But we need to be able to talk to those dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-3 01:00:05.027 --> 01:00:09.018 people who don't have years and see how we can help each other and how we can at dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-4 01:00:09.018 --> 01:00:12.269 least provide you with some kind of insight and advice. But yeah, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-5 01:00:12.269 --> 01:00:15.324 I don't know. I mean, just not set up to do things like that, dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8103-6 01:00:15.324 --> 01:00:17.098 are we? That's just not how we work. dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8118-0 01:00:19.468 --> 01:00:22.541 Yeah. Thank you. Very lovely. Let's put our hands together and thank dc189df2-cf59-44fb-a0f7-56dea35c8aef/8118-1 01:00:22.541 --> 01:00:23.788 Jason again for a fantastic.