Miss Heather Fraser

  • Research Associate (Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment)

Biography

Heather is a Research Associate in the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) research group within the School of Health and Wellbeing. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Heather completed her MSc Epidemiology in the field of Implementation Science at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Prior to taking up her role at the University of Glasgow, Heather spent three years working on economic evaluations at the SA MRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science – PRICELESS SA, based in the Wits School of Public Health. Her current projects focus on economic evaluations alongside clinical trials.

Research interests

Heather's work focuses on economic evaluations of healthcare interventions. This involves a range of methods, including decision-analytic modelling, conceptual modelling, regression and survival analysis.  

Publications

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Number of items: 5.

2023

Taylor, R. and Fraser, H. L. (2023) Time to scale up access to cost-effective home-based/digitally supported models of rehabilitation delivery. Heart, (doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2023-322454) (PMID:36898703) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Haag, L. et al. (2022) The remote diet intervention to reduce Long COVID symptoms trial (ReDIRECT): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a remotely delivered supported weight management programme for people with Long COVID and excess weight, with personalised improvement goals. NIHR Open Research, 2, 57. (doi: 10.3310/nihropenres.13315.1)

Fraser, H. et al. (2022) Costs of seasonal influenza vaccination in South Africa. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 16(5), pp. 873-880. (doi: 10.1111/irv.12987) (PMID:35355414)

Edoka, I., Fraser, H. , Jamieson, L., Meyer-Rath, G. and Mdewa, W. (2022) Inpatient care costs of COVID-19 in South Africa’s public healthcare system. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(8), pp. 1354-1361. (doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.24) (PMID:33949817)

2021

Edoka, I., Kohli-Lynch, C., Fraser, H. , Hofman, K., Tempia, S., McMorrow, M., Ramkrishna, W., Lambach, P., Hutubessy, R. and Cohen, C. (2021) A cost-effectiveness analysis of South Africa’s seasonal influenza vaccination programme. Vaccine, 39(2), pp. 412-422. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.11.028) (PMID:33272702) (PMCID:PMC7804372)

This list was generated on Thu Jun 8 21:32:07 2023 BST.
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Number of items: 5.

Articles

Taylor, R. and Fraser, H. L. (2023) Time to scale up access to cost-effective home-based/digitally supported models of rehabilitation delivery. Heart, (doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2023-322454) (PMID:36898703) (Early Online Publication)

Haag, L. et al. (2022) The remote diet intervention to reduce Long COVID symptoms trial (ReDIRECT): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a remotely delivered supported weight management programme for people with Long COVID and excess weight, with personalised improvement goals. NIHR Open Research, 2, 57. (doi: 10.3310/nihropenres.13315.1)

Fraser, H. et al. (2022) Costs of seasonal influenza vaccination in South Africa. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 16(5), pp. 873-880. (doi: 10.1111/irv.12987) (PMID:35355414)

Edoka, I., Fraser, H. , Jamieson, L., Meyer-Rath, G. and Mdewa, W. (2022) Inpatient care costs of COVID-19 in South Africa’s public healthcare system. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(8), pp. 1354-1361. (doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.24) (PMID:33949817)

Edoka, I., Kohli-Lynch, C., Fraser, H. , Hofman, K., Tempia, S., McMorrow, M., Ramkrishna, W., Lambach, P., Hutubessy, R. and Cohen, C. (2021) A cost-effectiveness analysis of South Africa’s seasonal influenza vaccination programme. Vaccine, 39(2), pp. 412-422. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.11.028) (PMID:33272702) (PMCID:PMC7804372)

This list was generated on Thu Jun 8 21:32:07 2023 BST.

Teaching

Heather is involved in a range of teaching duties within HEHTA, including supervising MSc Health Technology Assessment (MSc HTA) students. She also contributes to teaching on the HTA: Policy and Principles MSc course.