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How can economic models inform decision-making about screening programmes?

Dr Elisabeth Adams, Managing Director and Founder of Aquarius Population Health, spoke at a continuing medical education webinar for health professionals hosted on September 23,2020 by the Consortium for Infectious Disease Control (CIDC).  

With increasing demands on time and resources, decision-makers in healthcare need information about how to create a safe, effective and cost-effective screening programme. Elisabeth discussed how theoretical quantitative evidence from health economic evaluations and models can inform decision-making, and guide policy decisions at local, regional, national and international levels in the absence of empirical data.

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by Elisabeth Adams

PRESS RELEASE: Aquarius Population Health wins a prestigious SBRI grant from Innovate UK

SBRI2 Grant Press Release

Work has begun to develop a digital value proposition tool for a novel rapid sexually transmitted infection (STI) test

London, UK, 14 August 2017

Aquarius Population Health, a leading independent health economics consultancy, has recently been awarded an 18-month Innovate UK grant in collaboration with Atlas Genetics Ltd and the Applied Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Unit at St George’s University of London (total £2,000,000). The funding will be used to develop evidence for health services to support the introduction of a new rapid diagnostic test. In 30-minutes the test can diagnose multiple sexually transmitted infections including chlamydia and gonorrhoea – infections which could take up to a week to diagnose using the current laboratory testing systems.

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by Susie Huntington

Evaluating the use AMR POCT in treatment of gonorrhoea

Point-of-care tests for STI

Aquarius Population Health recently worked with the Applied Diagnostic Research & Evaluation Unit (ADREU) at St. Georges, University of London, to assess the cost-effectiveness of six hypothetical strategies for using antimicrobial resistance point-of-care testing to guide the treatment of gonorrhoea.  Our findings were presented at the STI & HIV World Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Wednesday 12th July, Session 15: STI/HIV testing and management].

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Aquarius Population Health presents the breast cancer diagnostic pathway at ISPOR Milan

Our Managing Director, Dr Elisabeth Adams, will be presenting “Mapping the diagnostic pathway for breast cancer in England and comparison to Europe” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Milan event which runs from the 7 – 11 November, 2015.

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Rapid on-demand testing of HPV and cervical cancer prevention: IPV Conference in Lisbon

Our managing director, Dr Elisabeth Adams, is presenting two posters at the 30th annual International Papillomavirus Conference  in Lisbon, Portugal.  The first poster, “Exploring the value of a rapid, on-demand test for the detection of human papillomavirus”, is a detailed look at the current patient pathways for cervical screening programmes, and key opinion leaders’ views on the impact a rapid diagnostic would have on the health and overall wellbeing of women.

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