ESMI workstreams

We currently have eight major work streams, which fund most of our 35+ research staff:

• PenTAG Health Technology Assessment (both for NICE, and the NIHR HTA programme)
• Exeter HSDR Evidence Synthesis Centre
• Exeter PRP Evidence Review Facility
• PenCHORD - health operations research and service delivery focused modelling (part of PenARC)
• PenARC Evidence Synthesis Team
• Information Specialist (IS) Team
• Evidence Reviews & Public Health
• Isca Evidence
• BEETLE
• NIHR Public Health Review Team

Our  methodological research includes

• Applying and evaluating new methods of evidence synthesis
• Developing and evaluating methods for professional elicitation
• Assessing the use and validation of surrogate outcomes in HTA
• Advancing methods for cost-effectiveness analysis

ESMI is one of a number of research groups within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, which is part of the University of Exeter Medical School.