Belen Corbacho
Research Fellow (Health Economist)

Profile

Biography

Belen is a Health Economist with special interest in the assessment and appraisal of health technologies. She was previously at York Trials Unit as a Research Fellow.  Belen holds an MSc in Health Economics and she was a visitor to the Centre of Health Economics (CHE).  She has previously worked at an HTA agency for the Ministry of Health in Spain. 

Qualifications

• MSc Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• BSc Economics, University of Seville, Spain

Publications

Full publications list

• Belen Corbacho's publications

Research

Overview

Belen's research interests are in the assessment and appraisal of health technologies.

Projects

• ACTIVE - Articular Pilon Fracture Trial
• DISC - Dupuytren's Interventions: Surgery v's Collagenase
• Gentle Years Yoga (GYY) - Individually randomised controlled, two arm, pragmatic, multi-centre trial to determine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an adapted yoga programme for older adults with multimorbidity.
• L1FE - Lateral compression of type-1 fracture fixation in the elderly, a randomised controlled trial
• PROFHER 2 - Proximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation Trial no. 2.
• QIST - Scaling up Quality Improvement for Surgical Teams
• SOFFT - Simple Olecranon Fracture Fixation Trial
• UK FROST - United Kingdom Frozen Shoulder Trial
• A multi-centre randomised controlled non-inferiority and cost effectiveness trial comparing Mupirocin to Octenidine or Naseptin for nasal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decolonisation amongst adult hospital in-patients
• Randomised controlled trial of a biomarker driven antifungal strategy versus a standard of care approach in AML

Completed Projects

• Building Blocks
• BOA Orthopaedic Surgery Research Centre (BOSRC)
• ENACT
• PRESTO - Pragmatic Randomised Evaluation of Stable Thoracolumbar fracture treatment Outcomes
• ProFHER - Proximal Fracture of the Humerus: Evaluation by Randomisation.
• REFORM - Multifaceted podiatry intervention for fall prevention in patients over 65 years of age.

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

External activities

Invited talks and conferences

• NICE criteria to assess cancer drugs, Consensus statement in Barcelona, Spanish Oncology Society, December 2012
• Evidence to inform Economic Evaluation, Spanish Health Economist Association, Granada, February 2013