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Contact information

Email
judit.simon@psych.ox.ac.uk

Website
https://public-health.meduniwien.ac.at/en/our-departments/department-of-health-economics-dhe/

Colleges

Judit Simon

MD (Hons), BA, BSc, MSc, DPhil (Oxford), FFPH

Visiting Professor of Cognitive Health Economics

Oxford Mental Health Economics and Policy

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.

Recent publications

A taxonomy of the process in implementation science: the Global Impact Analytics Framework (GIAF)

Salvador-Carulla L. et al, (2026), Implementation Science Communications, 7

Correction: A taxonomy of the process in implementation science_ the Global Impact Analytics Framework (GIAF) (Implementation Science Communications, (2026), 7, 1, (26), 10.1186/s43058-025-00824-8)

Salvador-Carulla L. et al, (2026), Implementation Science Communications, 7

A Decision-Support System to Personalize Antidepressant Treatment in Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Cipriani A. et al, (2026), JAMA, 335, 1219 - 1231

The cost-effectiveness of predictive algorithm guided primary antidepressant treatment: economic evaluation of the multinational PReDicT randomised controlled trial.

Perić N. et al, (2026), BJPsych Open, 12

Climate-Related and Nature-Based Interventions for Mental Health: An Umbrella Review and Meta-Analysis.

Brandt L. et al, (2026), JAMA Psychiatry

Economic evaluations in the palliative and end-of-life care settings: A systematic review of existing evidence, methods and quality.

Fischer C. et al, (2026), Palliat Med

Follow-up of suspected child maltreatment cases treated at a tertiary child protection service facility.

Mora-Theuer EA. et al, (2026), Eur J Pediatr, 185

Cost-effectiveness of pramipexole augmentation for acute phase and maintenance therapy of treatment-resistant depression compared to placebo augmentation: economic evaluation of the PAX-D randomised controlled trial.

Łaszewska A. et al, (2026), Lancet Reg Health Eur, 61

Theoretically Universal, Practically Unequal: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Healthcare Access for Long Covid-19 Patients in Austria.

Gamillscheg-Müllner P. et al, (2026), Health Expect, 29

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Caregiver Indirect and Informal Care Cost Assessment Questionnaire for end-of-life care into Spanish.

Lamfre LS. et al, (2026), Palliat Support Care, 24

Association between health literacy and reproductive health knowledge and behavior : A cross-sectional survey among women of reproductive age in Vienna.

Rottjakob P. et al, (2026), Wien Klin Wochenschr

Cost-effectiveness of pramipexole in addition to mood stabilisers for patients with treatment-resistant bipolar depression: Economic evaluation of the PAX-BD randomised controlled trial.

Berger M. et al, (2025), J Affect Disord, 391

Barriers, facilitators, and the role of central coordination: understanding long COVID-19 healthcare access in a universal healthcare system.

Gamillscheg-Müllner P. et al, (2025), Arch Public Health, 83

Climate change and mental health: announcing a new Lancet Psychiatry Commission.

Brandt L. et al, (2025), Lancet Psychiatry, 12, 811 - 813

Psychometric properties of the ICECAP-SCM capability-wellbeing measure in specialist palliative care units in Austria.

Saly E. et al, (2025), Qual Life Res, 34, 2821 - 2833

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