Barbara Arzymanow is a Research Fellow at 2020health and is a founding director of an independent healthcare consultancy firm. She has been an investment analyst specialising in Pharmaceuticals for 25 years, prior to which she carried out academic medical research in university laboratories. Her experience, obtained entirely from outside the pharmaceutical industry, gives her a unique, political perspective independent of commercial lobbies. She has extensive experience in financing the biotechnology industry, which is vital for the long-term standing of medical research in the UK. She has always been inspired by the scientific excellence within the UK and would like to see collaborations between industry, the NHS and academia strengthened. For more information about Barbara’s research and writings including submissions to Government Departments please visit http://www.researchideas.co.uk .
Stuart Carroll is a Senior Health Economist specialising in pharmaceuticals and health policy. He studied a BA (Hons) in Politics and Economics (1st Class) at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle and an MSc in Health Economics (Distinction) from the University of York. Stuart currently heads up the health economics, health outcomes and epidemiology functions in the UK for a leading pharmaceutical company specialising in vaccines, and is a member of the International Society for Pharmcoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).
He has authorship credits in a number of policy papers on topics including military healthcare, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), health education, value-based pricing (VBP), public health and obesity, and the role of pharmacy. In 2008, Stuart researched and wrote the Conservative Party’s official policy on NICE, ‘Improving Access to New Drugs: A Plan to Renew the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’.
Stuart is also the Chairman of the Bow Group Health & Education Policy Committee and the Editorial Adviser to Crossbow, the Bow Group’s magazine, having previously served as Treasurer in 2010.
Tom Packer is an expert in US history, politics and public policy.He is finishing a doctorate in modern American political history at Oxford.’ He has taught at Oxford and the London school of Economics and has written for the Journal of American Studies.
Gail Beer worked in the NHS for over 30 years latterly as an Executive Director at Barts and the London NHS Trust. She trained as a general nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital before undertaking a course in Renal Nursing at the Royal Free Hospital. After a number of senior nursing posts within London she moved into management taking a Masters in Health Management at City University, before becoming Director of Operations at BLT. Since leaving Barts and the London she has worked as an independent consultant in healthcare. Gail was a member of the team that produced the Independent Review of NHS and Social Care IT Commissioned by Stephen O’Brien MP, Chaired by Dr Glyn Hayes.
