Poushali Ganguli

I am a health economist working in the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, where I am a member of the Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research. My research contributes to the Centre's goal of developing effective, scalable approaches to promote good mental health in children and young people, with a particular focus on understanding value for money and supporting evidence-informed policy.

My research contributes to two complementary areas:

1. Economic evaluation of mental health interventions, conducted primarily alongside randomised controlled trials, with a particular focus on programmes for children and young people delivered in school and community settings. I am interested in the value and affordability of these programmes, and in how economic evidence can better inform decisions about mental health policy and service provision.
2. Methodological development in health economics, including the development and validation of mapping algorithms for preference-based health outcome measures, and the application of systematic review methods to health economic evidence.

I use a range of methods in my work, including cost-effectiveness analysis, health state valuation, systematic review and evidence synthesis, and participatory and arts-based approaches to research.

My broader interests include school mental health, global mental health, digital health, and epidemiology, with a particular emphasis on the economics of mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries. I am also interested in health inequalities and in interdisciplinary approaches that bring together health economics with other methodological traditions.