Professor Cam Donaldson

Professor

Biography

Cam Donaldson is (part-time) professor of health economics in the Department of Health Services Research & Policy. He also holds the Yunus Chair at Glasgow Caledonian University, where he is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics. Cam is internationally-renowned for his work on developing methods and frameworks for health care priority setting and evaluation, including applications in public health. Having worked at the Universities of York and Sydney in his early career, he has since held a professorship at the University of Aberdeen, the Svare Chair at the University of Calgary and the Health Foundation Chair at Newcastle University, the funding for which was won in a UK-wide competition. He has published over 300 papers in refereed journals as well as 8 books and has attracted around £30m in competitive funding for his research (around £11m as principal investigator). He has held senior investigatorships funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the UK's National Institute for Health Research and, in 2022, was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Research

Research interests

- development and application of methods of economic evaluation

- economics and health care priority setting

- conceptualising and evidencing microfinance and social business/enterprise as complex, community-based public health initiatives

Groups

Publications

  1. McHugh N, Pinto Prades JL, Baker R, Mason H, Donaldson C. Exploring the relative value of end of life QALYs: are the comparators important? Social Science & Medicine 2020; 245: 112660 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112660).
  2. Lancsar E, Gu Y, Gyrd-Hansen D, Butler J, Ratcliffe J, Bulfone L, Donaldson C. The relative value of different QALY types. Journal of Health Economics 2020: 70: 102303 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102303).
  3. Biosca O, McHugh N, Ibrahim F, Baker R, Donaldson C Walking a tightrope: using financial diaries to investigate day-to-day financial decisions and the social safety net of the financially-excluded. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2020 Volume: 689 issue: 1, page(s): 46-64 https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716220921154.
  4. Baker R, McHugh N, Mason H, Donaldson C. Public values and plurality in health priority setting: what to do when people disagree and why economists should care about reasons as well as choices. Social Science & Medicine 2021: 202; 277: 113892. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113892).
  5. Carr K, Donaldson C, Wildman J, Smith R, Vernazza C. An Examination of Consistency in the Incremental Approach to Willingness to Pay: Evidence Using Societal Values for Dental Services. Medical Decision Making 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0272989X21996329).
  6. Baker R, McHugh N, Mason H, Donaldson C. Public values and plurality in health priority setting: what to do when people disagree and why economists should care about reasons as well as choices. Social Science & Medicine 2021: 202; 277: 113892. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113892).
  7. Ibrahim F, McHugh N, Biosca O, Laxton T, Baker R, Donaldson C. Microcredit as a public health initiative? Exploring mechanisms and pathways to health and well-being. Social Science & Medicine 2021; 270: 113633 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113633.
  8. Al-Janabi H, Wittenberg A, Donaldson C, Brouwer W. The relative value of carer and patient quality of life: a person trade-off (PTO) study. Social Science & Medicine 2022: 292: 114556 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114556).
  9. Lancsar E, Swait J, Mitton C, Breunig R, Mirk M, Huynh E, Donaldson C. Preparing for future pandemics: a multi-national comparison of health and economic trade-offs. Health Economics 2023; 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4673.
  10. Baker R, Donaldson C. Common Health Assets protocol: a mixed-methods, realist evaluation and economic appraisal of how community-led organisations (CLOs) impact on the health and wellbeing of people living in deprived areas. BMJ Open 2023;13:e069979. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069979