British health economist (1944-2018)
Alan Keith Maynard OBE FMedSci (15 December 1944 – 2 February 2018)[ 1] was a British health economist.
Biography
Born in Bebington , Maynard studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and York . After a stint at the University of Exeter , he was appointed to the University of York in 1971. There, he became a professor in 1983,[ 2] founded the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) the same year[ 1] and created the York Health Policy Group in 1996.[ 3] In 1995, he briefly served as the Chief Executive of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust . From 1997 to 2010, Maynard was Chairman of the York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust .[ 2] [ 4] He was founding editor of the journal Health Economics [ 5] and commentator for Pulse .[ 6]
In 2000, Maynard was made Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences .[ 7] He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009[ 8] for his involvement in the National Health Service and also received honorary degrees from the University of Aberdeen in 2003 and the University of Northumbria in 2006.[ 9] Along with his long-time colleague Anthony J. Culyer , he was the recipient of the 2015 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research .[ 10]
Further reading
References
^ a b "Obituary: Professor Alan Maynard OBE" . University of York, Centre for Health Economics. Retrieved 8 February 2018 .
^ a b Laycock, Mike. "Tributes after death of former hospital trust chairman Alan Maynard" . The Press . Retrieved 8 February 2018 .
^ Cookson, Richard; Goddard, Maria; Sheldon, Trevor (2016). "Introduction" . In Cookson, Richard; Goddard, Maria; Sheldon, Trevor (eds.). Maynard Matters: Critical Thinking on Health Policy . University of York, Centre for Health Economics. pp. xix– xxv. Retrieved 8 February 2018 .
^ for the trust's history, see fonds NHS/YHT - York Hospitals NHS Trust , Borthwick Institute for Archives
^ Briggs, Andrew; Hutton, John; Jones, Andrew M.; Mullahy, John; Sharp, Frances; Stearns, Sally (2017). "Twenty-Five Years of Health Economics: A Tribute to Alan Maynard and Acknowledgement of the Work of the Editorial Board" . Health Economics . 26 (1): 3– 5. doi :10.1002/hec.3456 . PMID 27943517 .
^ "Tributes paid to leading health economist Professor Alan Maynard" . Pulse Today . Retrieved 8 February 2018 .
^ Professor Alan Maynard OBE FMedSci , Academy of Medical Sciences
^ "New Year Honours: Yorkshire's great and good receive recognition" . The Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 8 February 2018 .
^ "Alan Maynard Emeritus Professor" . The University of York. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2018 .
^ Economists Anthony Culyer and Alan Maynard Named Co-Recipients of the 2015 William B. Graham Prize For Health Services Research Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine – press release
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