Professor Neil Craig, PHIRST Fusion Co-Investigator
Professor of Public Health Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University

Neil Craig is Professor of Public Health Economics within the Economics of Health and Wellbeing Research Group in the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health. He provides guidance on the design and conduct of economic evaluation methods as part of PHIRST Fusion evaluation projects.

He graduated in Economics and Social Policy from the University of Leeds and worked in the Government Economic Service as an Economic Assistant before completing the Masters degree in Health Economics at the University of York. He then worked as a Health Economist in health boards in the north of England and in Scotland before taking up a post in the Department of Public Health at the University of Glasgow where he was Lecturer in Health Economics and Co-ordinator of the Masters in Public Health.

He then moved on to Audit Scotland where he worked as a Performance Auditor in health and social care before taking up a post in NHS Health Scotland, latterly Public Health Scotland, where he was the Acting Head of the Evaluation, Evidence for Action and Public Health Observatory teams.

Work in Public Health Scotland included evaluation of Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol, citizens’ basic income, the increase in the funded hours of early learning and childcare and 20mph speed limits.

He has interests in health economics, in particular public health economics, the economics of prevention and the evaluation (including economic evaluation) of public health interventions. The economic evaluation of interventions to reduce drug-related deaths and evaluation of the health and economic impacts of community wealth building.