Dr. Gillian Currie
Positions
Adjunct Associate Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Adjunct Associate Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences
Child Health & Wellness Researcher
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Associate Director, Health Economics Research
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences
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Background
Biography
Dr. Gillian Currie is Associate Director, Health Economics Research with Dr. Marshall’s research team. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position with the Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Community Health Sciences. Gillian trained in economics at Yale University, with additional postdoctoral training in health economics at the University of Calgary. Prior to joining Dr. Marshall’s team in 2018, Gillian was a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics, with a joint appointment in Community Health Sciences. She brings over twenty years of research experience in child health and economics to the Marshall team. Dr. Currie is a member of the International Association of Health Preferences Research (IAHPR), and a member of the Honorary International Editorial Board of the journal The Patient-Patient Centred Outcome Research.
A key focus of her current work is on childhood arthritis, including examining parent and child preferences regarding discontinuation of biologic treatment. Gillian is passionate about mentorship and supporting the postdocs, trainees and staff on the team.
Research
Areas of Research
Dr. Currie's research is in the area of health economics. Health care resources are scarce, and in order to make the best use of these resources to achieve the best outcome, we need information on the costs and outcomes associated with different interventions. This is what economic evaluation is all about. Gillian works on the methods and application of economic evaluation of health and health care interventions in the maternal, infant, child, and youth content area. Within economic evaluation, her methodological focus is primarily on measurement of the benefits of health interventions through the use of stated preference methods, such as contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments, to elicit preferences for health and health care. These methods elicit values directly from families and children. A key focus of Gillian’s current work, with Dr. Deborah Marshall and team, is measuring the preferences for treatment initiation and tapering among children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), as well as modelling the cost-effectiveness of precision medicine approaches to tailored treatment strategies in JIA.
Participation in university strategic initiatives
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