Frauke Becker
PhD
Senior Researcher
Frauke joined HERC as a senior researcher in May 2017. Her research interests include the economic analysis of lifestyle choices and implications for public health policy with a special focus on obesity; preference elicitation by means of discrete choice experiments; and economic evaluations of health care and public health interventions. She is currently working on a number of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials in diabetic and pre-diabetic populations.
She has previously held appointments at Hannover Medical School (MHH), the University of Aberdeen, Brunel University, and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists where she contributed to the development of NICE guidelines. Prior to her appointment at HERC, she worked at the Health Economics Group at Newcastle University where she was involved in a number of economic evaluations for public health interventions and conducted some preference elicitation work.
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Recent publications
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Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Police Custody Suites: Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (AcCePT)
Addison M. et al, (2018), Alcohol And Alcoholism
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Women’s preferences for alternative financial incentive schemes for breastfeeding: A discrete choice experiment
BECKER F. et al, (2018), PLoS ONE
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Health Economics of Obesity
Hill S. et al, (2017), Practical Guide to Obesity Medicine
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Discrete Choice Experiment Response Rates: A Meta-analysis
Watson V. et al, (2017), Health Economics, 26, 810 - 817
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Supporting Looked After Children and Care Leavers In Decreasing Drugs, and alcohol (SOLID): protocol for a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of interventions to decrease risky substance use (drugs and alcohol) and improve mental health of looked after children and care leavers aged 12–20 years
Alderson H. et al, (2017), Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 3