Dark Peak Analytics provide consulting services at the intersection of health economics and data-science. Established by Paul Schneider & Robert Smith in 2019, we have experienced high demand and continue to grow the team.
- HTA, Public Health, Epidemiology and Data Science consultancy.
- Training in Health Economics, especially building & deploying models with R.
- Deployment of web-based user-interfaces for health economic models.
- Model review & advisory services.
We are very active in research, and have a commitment to open publishing. See our list of recent publications below. We also make as many of our tools open source as possible.
Interested in collaborating on a project with us, contact us via email.
Table: Recent (last 4 yr) publications from Dark Peak Analytics. - (Autogenerated from Google Scholar)
| Title | Authors | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities | World Health Organization | World Health Organization | 2022 | 94 |
| Global return on investment and cost-effectiveness of WHO's HEAR interventions for hearing loss: a modelling study | D Tordrup, R Smith, K Kamenov, MY Bertram, N Green, S Chadha | The Lancet Global Health | 2022 | 24 |
| Making health economic models Shiny: A tutorial | R Smith, P Schneider | Wellcome open research | 2020 | 24 |
| Multiple deprivation and geographic distance to community physical activity events—Achieving equitable access to parkrun in England | PP Schneider, RA Smith, AM Bullas, H Quirk, T Bayley, SJ Haake, ... | Public health | 2020 | 20 |
| Does ethnic density influence community participation in mass participation physical activity events? The case of parkrun in England | R Smith, P Schneider, A Bullas, S Haake, H Quirk, R Cosulich, E Goyder | Wellcome Open Research | 2020 | 19 |
| Using web search queries to monitor influenza-like illness: an exploratory retrospective analysis, Netherlands, 2017/18 influenza season | PP Schneider, CJAW van Gool, P Spreeuwenberg, M Hooiveld, ... | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 18 |
| Quality-adjusted life expectancy norms for the English population | S McNamara, PP Schneider, J Love-Koh, T Doran, N Gutacker | Value in Health | 2023 | 15 |
| The QALY is ableist: on the unethical implications of health states worse than dead | P Schneider | Quality of Life Research | 2022 | 11 |
| EQ-5D-5L: a value set for Romania | E Olariu, W Mohammed, Y Oluboyede, R Caplescu, IG Niculescu-Aron, ... | The European Journal of Health Economics | 2023 | 9 |
| Variability of cost trajectories over the last year of life in patients with advanced breast cancer in the Netherlands | PP Schneider, XGLV Pouwels, VL Passos, BLT Ramaekers, SME Geurts, ... | Plos one | 2020 | 9 |
| Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions | PR Breeze, H Squires, K Ennis, P Meier, K Hayes, N Lomax, A Shiell, ... | Health economics | 2023 | 8 |
| Living HTA: Automating Health Economic Evaluation with R | RA Smith, PP Schneider, W Mohammed | Wellcome Open Research | 2022 | 8 |
| Where should new parkrun events be located? Modelling the potential impact of 200 new events on socio-economic inequalities in access and participation | PP Schneider, RA Smith, AM Bullas, T Bayley, SSJ Haake, A Brennan, ... | MedRxiv | 2019 | 8 |
| Living health technology assessment: issues, challenges and opportunities | P Thokala, T Srivastava, R Smith, S Ren, MD Whittington, J Elvidge, ... | PharmacoEconomics | 2023 | 7 |
| The Online Elicitation of Personal Utility Functions (OPUF) tool: a new method for valuing health states | PP Schneider, B van Hout, M Heisen, J Brazier, N Devlin | Wellcome Open Research | 2022 | 7 |
| Socioeconomic inequalities in distance to and participation in a community-based running and walking activity: A longitudinal ecological study of parkrun 2010 to 2019 | RA Smith, PP Schneider, R Cosulich, H Quirk, AM Bullas, SJ Haake, ... | Health & Place | 2021 | 7 |
| The price of precision: trade-offs between usability and validity in the World Health Organization Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling | R Smith, C Thomas, H Squires, T Götschi, S Kahlmeier, E Goyder | Public Health | 2021 | 6 |
| Direct medical costs of advanced breast cancer treatment: a real-world study in the southeast of the Netherlands | PP Schneider, BL Ramaekers, X Pouwels, S Geurts, K Ibragimova, ... | Value in Health | 2021 | 4 |
| Resource allocation in a national dental service using program budgeting marginal analysis | CR Vernazza, K Carr, RD Holmes, J Wildman, J Gray, C Exley, RA Smith, ... | JDR Clinical & Translational Research | 2023 | 3 |
| Socioeconomic inequalities in HRQoL in England: an age-sex stratified analysis | P Schneider, J Love-Koh, S McNamara, T Doran, N Gutacker | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | 2022 | 3 |
| Living HTA: automating health technology assessment with R [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations] | RA Smith, PP Schneider, W Mohammed | Wellcome Open Research | 2022 | 3 |
| Living HTa: automating health economic evaluation with R | RA Smith, PP Schneider, W Mohammed | Wellcome Open Research | 2022 | 3 |
| Social tariffs and democratic choice—Do population‐based health state values reflect the will of the people? | PP Schneider | Health Economics | 2021 | 3 |
| Decomposition of Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy Inequalities by Mortality and Health-Related Quality of Life Dimensions | J Love-Koh, P Schneider, S McNamara, T Doran, N Gutacker | PharmacoEconomics | 2023 | 2 |
| The influence of neighbourhood equity on parkrunners in a British city | S Haake, B Heller, P Schneider, R Smith, G Green | Health promotion international | 2022 | 2 |
Note: ^^ Last updated: 2024-02-08