Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Mark Oremus, co-Editor-in-Chief

Dr Mark Oremus is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University.

Dr Oremus' primary research interests include aging and chronic disease, cognition, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. He has conducted studies on willingness-to-pay for Alzheimer’s disease medications, measuring quality-of-life in Alzheimer’s disease, and the use of outcome measurement instruments in Alzheimer’s disease drug trials. His other research interests include systematic reviews, population and public health from a life-course perspective, health policy and economics, and knowledge transfer.

Oliver Rivero-Arias, co-Editor-in-Chief

Dr Oliver Rivero-Arias is an Associate Professor at the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) at the University of Oxford. He is the Senior Health Economist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit based in the NDPH and holds a DPhil in Public Health from the University of Oxford. His main research interests concern the use of robust and appropriate methods to measure and value costs and benefits for the conduct of economic evaluations of interventions during pregnancy, childbirth, the newborn period and early childhood. His research agenda focuses on developing best practices to measure and value health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in cost-effectiveness analysis and he currently leads a programme of work around valuing health to inform healthcare decision-making in child and adolescent populations.