Simon DixonAcademic

Biography

Simon Dixon is Professor of Health Economics at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, where he is a member of the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) section. His research concentrates on developing and applying methods for economic evaluation alongside controlled trials, with a particular focus on pre-hospital and emergency care, as well as the measurement and valuation of healthcare benefits. He teaches economic evaluation methods on the MSc in International Health Technology Assessment, Pricing and Reimbursement and the Masters in Public Health programmes at Sheffield. Dixon is also an Honorary Professor in the Priority Cost Effective Lessons for Systems Strengthening (PRICELESS) programme at the School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand. He has published widely on cost-effectiveness analysis in areas including urgent care, digital health in care homes, bladder cancer surgery, and diabetes management, and has spoken at international forums including the 2019 UK-China Health and Economy Partnership in Beijing.

References

1. 1.Professor Simon Dixon – ScHARR staff page, University of Sheffield — Confirms current role as Professor of Health Economics at ScHARR, research focus on economic evaluation in pre-hospital and emergency care, teaching responsibilities, and recent publications (2023–2024)
2. 2.Simon Dixon – ResearchGate profile — Confirms title (Professor of Health Economics), institutional affiliation (ScHARR, University of Sheffield), and citation count of 5,820 across 130+ publications
3. 3.The impact of digital technology in care homes on unplanned secondary care usage and associated costs – Age and Ageing (2024) — Evidences Dixon's co-authorship of a 2024 peer-reviewed publication on digital health in care homes, affiliated to ScHARR, University of Sheffield
4. 4.HEDS Blog: Professor Simon Dixon invited to speak at the 2019 UK-China Health and Economy Partnership in Beijing — Confirms his membership of the HEDS section at ScHARR and his public-facing role representing Sheffield health economics internationally
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Expertise

Cited on

• Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Stated areas of expertise

• Health technology assessment
• Economic evaluation methods
• Pre-hospital and emergency care economics
• Cost-effectiveness analysis
• Digital health in social care
• Health benefit valuation

Notable achievements

• Co-authored a 2024 study published in Age and Ageing showing that the HealthCall digital technology in care homes reduced unplanned secondary care usage and associated NHS costs across 118 care homes in the North East of England. Source ↗
• Co-authored a 2023 study published in JAMA Network Open on the cost-effectiveness of robot-assisted versus open radical cystectomy for bladder cancer patients. Source ↗
• Invited to speak at the 2019 UK-China Health and Economy Partnership in Beijing, representing the University of Sheffield on pharmacoeconomics and the economic evaluation of medicines. Source ↗
• Cited over 5,800 times on ResearchGate across more than 130 publications, reflecting sustained impact in health economics methodology. Source ↗

What they’ve said

• “The system put in place for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of new drugs is respected the world over and is successful in applying the principle that funding a new product should not damage the NHS as a whole.”

  Former professor of health economics, University of Sheffield · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Don’t give in to big pharma on drug pricing | Letters ↗

Source references

1. Don’t give in to big pharma on drug pricing | Letterstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

Contact & links

• Staff pagehttps://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/simon-dixon

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