Nancy J Devlin

Nancy is Professor of Health Economics at the University of Melbourne and Editor-in-Chief at Value in Health. Her principal areas of research expertise are the measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes; the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgments about value for money in health care; and priority setting in health care. Nancy has published >200 original peer reviewed journal articles on a wide range of empirical and theoretical topics in health economics, and is co-author of Economic Analysis in Health Care, a textbook on health economics widely used in the UK and elsewhere. In 2025 Nancy was named in the Stanford/Elsevier ‘top 2% scientists’. In 2024, she was ranked 3rd in the world’s ‘Highly Ranked Scholars’™ in Health Economics based on productivity, impact and research quality. Her work was highlighted in the UK’s NIHR 10-year anniversary report, which noted ‘The impact of her research is worldwide and highly significant in improving health and