Natalia Kunst
Senior Research Fellow

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Biography

Natalia is a Senior Research Fellow in Economic evaluation and has been based at the University of York since 2023. Further, she serves as a NICE Technology Appraisal Committee member. Natalia is also a Research Affiliate at Yale University School of Public Health and an Affiliated Member at the Center for Healthcare Research in Pediatrics (CHeRP), Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research Cancer Center (COPPER), Yale University School of Medicine.

Natalia is a decision sciences and health economics researcher with interests in uncertainty and evidence in decision-analytic modelling and health economic evaluations, value of information analysis, and health disparities. She has worked on health economic evaluations and outcomes research of a wide range of interventions for cancer, including early diagnosis and treatment, and also other therapeutic areas. Further, she has experience in national policy-making by performing evaluations of various health interventions and priority settings, and developing national guidelines. 

Natalia completed her PhD in Health Economic Evaluation and Health Policy at the University of Oslo, Norway, and spent 2 years of her 3-year PhD program at Yale University, first as a visiting PhD candidate and thereafter working as a Postgraduate Research Fellow. During her PhD, she co-founded and has since co-led the Collaborative Network for Value of Information (ConVOI), which is an international group of over 20 researchers with interests in the application and development of methods for value of information calculation. Natalia pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute where she was also awarded Thomas O. Pyle Fellowship by the Harvard University and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation. She has further gained insight into policy-making through her previous role as a Senior Advisor in the Norwegian Government. 

Research

Research group(s)

• Economic evaluation