Dr Shihua Zhu joined the Community and Health Research Unit and the Lincoln Clinical Trials Unit on 13th June 2023. Shihua is a Senior Research Fellow in Econometrics and Health Economics. His expertise lies in economic valuations alongside clinical trials, statistics and mathematical models. Dr Zhu has completed more than 10 economic evaluations alongside large scale random control trials. He has rich experience in conducting decision analytic models used in health care evaluation including Markov model, discrete event simulation model and population dynamic model. Zhu has published widely in high prestigious journals including Lancet, BMJ, PLOS One and HTA Reports.
Before Joining CaHRU, Dr Zhu worked as a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics at the Academic Unit of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton. He has worked on many economic valuations alongside clinical trials and large dataset including individual patient data of trials and observational studies, routinely collected electronic health records.
He was rewarded the HTA trainee fellowship at the University of Aberdeen in 2007 after his PhD in geometric modelling at the University of Birmingham.