Judit Simon

My main expertise lies in health care optimisation through applied and methodological economic evaluation and outcomes research primarily in the fields of mental health, public health, perinatal and palliative care, and various chronic diseases. Other research areas include cost-effective clinical guideline/HTA development; broader system-level evaluation and international comparison of health services and health systems.

I have been Visiting Professor of Cognitive Health Economics at the Department of Psychiatry since 2014, with relevant mental health economics research collaborations spanning over 25 years. These include NICE mental health clinical guideline developments, economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials (CEQUEL, OXTEXT, OCTET, PreDicT, PAX-D, PETRUSHKA), development of the OxCAP-MH capability well-being instrument, and assessing the cost of bipolar disorders in the UK and the physical comorbidity costs of mental disorders in Europe. Other linked works cover the Horizon 2020 PECUNIA project to improve the methods of (mental) health economic evaluations, co-authoring the New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, academic advisory roles (EBC VoT2, Oxford Health BRC, UK MHM), and the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Climate Change and Mental Health.

For further details, see main profile at the Department of Health Economics, Medical University of Vienna.