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Caroline Marie Fairhurst serves as a Senior Research Fellow in Health Sciences at the University of York, specializing in health economics and clinical trials methodology. Her research integrates rigorous cost-effectiveness analyses with pragmatic intervention studies across surgical, mental health, and oncology domains, supported by active National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funding.
Her primary research interests focus on economic evaluation of complex healthcare interventions, particularly for vulnerable populations including older adults with depression and patients requiring wound management or cancer-related care. This encompasses methodological expertise in pragmatic randomized controlled trials, regression-discontinuity designs, and health technology assessment frameworks applicable to real-world clinical settings.
Recent publications demonstrate a consistent trend toward evaluating interventions with dual clinical and economic outcomes, emphasizing patient-centered approaches for conditions like surgical wound healing, depression management during pandemics, and post-cardiac surgery care pathways. Her work frequently addresses implementation challenges in primary and secondary care systems.
Dr. Fairhurst currently contributes as Co-investigator to three major NIHR-funded projects: PORTRAIT (radiotherapy for bone metastasis fractures, 2024-2029), FARSTER-care (accelerated cardiac surgery pathways, 2023-2027), and AMICABLE (2023-2027). These grants reflect her leadership in designing multicenter trials that bridge clinical practice and health economic decision-making, often involving complex stakeholder collaborations across academic, clinical, and third-sector partners.
