Shehzad Ali
Visiting Professor

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Biography

Shehzad Ali is a Visiting Professor in Health Economics and Health Services Research at the University of York. He was based full-time at York until 2018. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Heidelberg University (Germany) and Macquarie University (Australia) and a Research Consultant at the University of Louisville (US).

Shehzad has a unique background which spans the fields of Health Economics (PhD), Medical Statistics (MSc), Public Health (MPH) and Clinical Medicine (MBBS). He has over 10 years of professional experience as an academic researcher and independent consultant in the public and private sectors in both developed and developing countries.

With a career research income of >£15 million, Shehzad has jointly held grants funded in the UK (National Institute of Health Research, NIHR), USA (National Institute of Health, NIH) and Australia (National Health and Medical Research Council, NHMRC).

During his career, Shehzad has led and/or supervised distinct workstreams on 23 projects that align with his research interest in the following areas:

(a) Health technology assessment of diagnostic and treatment strategies using decision models;

(b) Estimating the treatment effect of interventions using real world evidence;

(c) Monitoring and benchmarking health service performance in terms of efficiency and equity of access, utilisation and outcomes using large patient-level administrative data (“big data”);

(d) Explaining heterogeneity in health outcomes and predicting events using individual patient-level data; and

(e) Eliciting value judgments and treatment preferences to inform resource allocation decisions.

Shehzad has been involved in teaching postgraduate courses in health economics, health care organisation and management and statistics. 

He has held a number of leadership positions, including the Lead Mental Health Economist in the Department of Health Sciences. He also held the position of the Dean of Derwent College at the University of York for four years (until 2012).

Shehzad has worked as National Programme Manager with the Aga Khan Development Network in Central Asia where he led a large team of professionals on 18 projects funded by the World Bank and UN organizations (>US$5 million). Also, he has worked as a clinician at Dr Ruth Pfau Hospital which is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Pakistan (1999-2000).

Qualifications

• PhD in Social Policy (Health Economics), University of York
• MSc in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester
• Master of Public Health (International), University of Leeds
• MBBS Medicine and Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences