Dr Gurdeep Sagoo is the Health Economics Lead for the HRC. He is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at Newcastle University where he co-leads the Health Economics Group. This is an academic group of 17 researchers and 4 PhD students.

He is the co-director of the Newcastle Technology Assessment Review (TAR) Group and the Digitally Enabled ProacTive Health AI Lab at Newcastle University. Gurdeep also leads the health economics for the Newcastle NICE External Assessment Group. He has a strong academic background in economic evaluation, evidence synthesis, and the evaluation of diagnostic tests and digital health technologies. He has over 50 peer reviewed publications, 12 technology appraisal reports for NICE, and more than £50 million secured in grant funding to date. His work focuses primarily on modelling the cost-effectiveness of health technologies using both primary and secondary data sources.

Gurdeep is a member of the NIHR HTA CET, Decarbonising Health and Social Care, and HTA Postdoctoral awards funding committees. He also serves as a Deputy Editor for the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Furthemore Gurdeep is co-convenor of the Health Economists’ Study Group Heads of Unit Group.

Through these additional roles, he currently supervises 6 PhD students and 2 MD students.