Rate My Professor Trudy Sullivan

Sullivan's research specializations include health economics, focusing on measuring and valuing health-related quality of life (HRQoL), multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for priority setting in publicly funded services, cost-effectiveness analysis, and applied health economics. She has developed MCDA frameworks for prioritising publicly funded health care and is applying them to other public services. Her teaching includes PUBH 735: Economics of Health Policy Decision Making and PUBH 736: Economic Evaluation. Key publications encompass "A new tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets, including valuing 'dead'" (2020), "The hidden costs of employee drinking: A quantitative analysis" (2019), "Procrastination and the non-monotonic effect of deadlines on task completion" (2022), "Creating a priority list of non-communicable diseases to support health research funding decision-making" (2021), "Describing the health-related quality of life of Māori adults in Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu (New Zealand)" (2023), and "Creating an SF-6Dv2 social value set for New Zealand" (2024). She serves as a media expert on health economics and priority setting.