Professor Alastair Gray

Biography

Alastair Gray is Professor of Health Economics in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. He has previously held academic appointments at the University of Aberdeen, the Open University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

His main research interests concern the use of economic evaluation to aid decision-making. He has worked across many different disease areas, with particular interests in diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

As a researcher he has helped to evaluate changes to the breast and bowel cancer screening programmes. As a member of the UK NSC since 2015, he provides advice and expertise on health economics and disease modelling, with respect both to the existing screening programmes and to proposals for new programmes.