Dark Peak Analytics

Rob is an expert in the use of R for health economic modelling. He has previously worked at the UK Joint Biosecurity Centre, the UK Health Security Agency, the World Health Organization and The University of Sheffield. He has consulted for a wide range of organisations including top 10 pharmaceutical companies, national health ministries and HTA bodies. He is a keen proponent of the use of R for HTA; serving as co-director of the international R-HTA consortium and the World Health Organisation’s Health Economic Assessment Tool Expert Advisory Group.

Felicity is Programme Director for the MSc in Data Analytics at Queens University Belfast and a Statistical Advisor to the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. As well as teaching, Felicity has published tutorial papers on the use of R for health economic evaluation, and is a co-director of R-HTA consortium.

Paul is an expert in the development of software for HEOR. A medical doctor and epidemiologist by training, he has used R on various research projects, ranging from the modelling costs of breast cancer, and value of information analyses, to the monitoring of influenza in real-time using online data. He is a keen advocate of open science practices and has published several open-source papers with Rob on the use of shiny and R for health economic evaluation.