Dr Daniel Gallacher FHEA

Dr Daniel Gallacher

Health Services Management Centre
Assistant Professor

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Health Services Management Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dan is a medical statistician with extensive experience in health technology assessment, having appraised submissions to NICE since 2017. He is a senior member of the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science, and sits on NICE TA Committee B.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Health Sciences, University of Warwick, 2023
  • MSc in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester, 2016
  • BSc in Mathematics, University of Reading, 2014

Biography

Dan began his research career at the University of Warwick. After a year in Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Dan joined Warwick Evidence, one of NICE’s TAR teams. Dan remained in Warwick Evidence until the team’s move to University of Birmingham in January 2025, forming the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science.  

Previously, Dan completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Reading and the University of Leciester respectively. His PhD was completed whilst working full-time as a member of Warwick Evidence, evaluating the performance of routinely used methods of survival extrapolation to predict future survival through Monte Carlo simulation. He has extensive experience of critiquing company submissions and models, with a focus on the implementation of statistical methods into the economic model. He has particular interest in oncology appraisals.

Dan now leads the BCEIS TAR team, and is a member of NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B.

Postgraduate supervision

Dan is interested in supervising post-graduate projects which focus on methodology for economic evaluation, health technology assessment or survival extrapolation. Dan is also interested to supervise projects which will make a positive contribution to health outcomes and feature a large quantitative analysis element.

Research

Dan is primarily funded by the NIHR HTA TAR award for appraising evidence related to health technologies. (NIHR131964)

Alongside this work, Dan has varied research interests and has published work in the fields of screening, diagnostics, and orthopaedic surgery, using his skills in medical statistics and evidence synthesis.

Dan was a co-investigator on the NIHR HTA grant investigating the evidence for innovative ventilation methods for adults and children (NIHR154798).