HarknessProject: What Impact Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Have on Innovation?

Placement: Tufts University

Mentors: Peter Neumann, Sc.D., Professor and Director, Center for Evaluation and Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center
Sean Tunis, M.D., Director, Center for Medical Technology Policy
Ruth Faden, Ph.D., Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Philip Franklin Wagley Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Alan Garber, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Stanford University

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Sarah Garner, Ph.D., a 2010-11 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is associate director for research and development at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). She is also member of the U.K.'s Regulation of Medicines Review Panel, an editor for the Cochrane Skin Group, and visiting scientist at MIT. Past positions include technical advisor, NICE Appraisals Team; pharmacist lead, Health Protection Agency/Department of Health Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (SACAR); joint appointment as health technology analyst, NICE Appraisals Team and honorary research fellow at St. Georges University of London; and research associate in the unit of health-care epidemiology, Institute of Sciences, Oxford University. Garner is author of 18 peer-reviewed publications that have appeared in journals including JAMA and the BMJ. She holds a Ph.D. from Nottingham University.

Email: Sarah.Garner@nice.org.uk