His PhD topic is about the derivation of a preliminary U.K. preference-based tariff for the Short Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) to allow calculation of Mental Well-being Adjusted Life Years (MWALY). The MWALY will be an alternative outcome measure to QALY and it will be used to capture mental well-being benefits in the economic evaluation of mental health promotion interventions. I will be doing different piloting phases during the PhD to validate the proposed methodology to derive the preference-based tariff.

We celebrated in the office with cakes this morning, congratulations Edmund!