Professor Dawn Craig is the Director of the NIHR Innovation Observatory (est. 2017) and Professor of Evidence Synthesis at Newcastle University. A health economist by training, the early part of her career was spent honing her expertise in economic evaluation and systematic review methodologies. In 2014, she joined Newcastle University, where she established a successful Evidence Synthesis Group. She now co-leads the Evidence Synthesis Group and the Health Economics Group, two very active research groups.
She has senior investigator roles in two NIHR Policy Research Units (Healthy Ageing & Behavioural & Social Sciences) and co-leads the NIHR NENC ARC Enabling Methodology theme. She plays an active role in both the Newcastle & Partners NIHR RSS and the RSS national collaboration. As an applied methodologists these roles allow her to keep abreast of current methods and support the use of robust methods across a diverse range of projects. In addition to roles on national funding committees and strategic steering groups, she is currently the international HealthTechScan (EuroScan) Vice-President-elect (Information & Digital Tools).
