Project Title: Developing a Comparative Effectiveness Research Agenda

Mentors: Gerard Anderson, Ph.D., and Sean Tunis, M.D.

Placement: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, and the Center for Medical Technology Policy, San Francisco, CA

Kalipso Chalkidou, M.D., Ph.D., a 2007–08 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is associate director of research and development at NICE, where her work includes disinvestment guidance, evaluation of fast-tracking appraisals of technologies closer to licensing, and the review of social value judgments used by NICE committees. Previous positions include clinical research fellow at the University of Newcastle Medical School and surgical trainee in NHS hospitals in Newcastle and Cambridge. She has authored peer-reviewed articles in basic science, clinical medicine, and health policy, with publications in the BMJ, Health Economics, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, as well as a book chapter on economic evaluation in public health. Chalkidou graduated with distinction from the Athens Medical School in 2000 and holds a doctorate in prostate cancer from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is an honorary lecturer in health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was recently awarded a two-year grant from the Sasakawa Foundation to study current applications of pharmacoeconomics in Japan.

E-mail: kalipso.chalkidou@nice.org.uk

Publications: Tunis SR, Chalkidou K. "Coverage with Evidence Development: A Very Good Beginning, But Much to Be Done" (Commentary to Hutton et al.), International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2007; 23(4): 432–435.