Cam Donaldson is (part-time) professor of health economics in the Department of Health Services Research & Policy. He also holds the Yunus Chair at Glasgow Caledonian University, where he is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics. Cam is internationally-renowned for his work on developing methods and frameworks for health care priority setting and evaluation, including applications in public health. Having worked at the Universities of York and Sydney in his early career, he has since held a professorship at the University of Aberdeen, the Svare Chair at the University of Calgary and the Health Foundation Chair at Newcastle University, the funding for which was won in a UK-wide competition. He has published over 300 papers in refereed journals as well as 8 books and has attracted around £30m in competitive funding for his research (around £11m as principal investigator). He has held senior investigatorships funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the UK’s National Institute for Health Research and, in 2022, was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

BA (Hons) Economics (Nottm); MSc Health Economics (York); PhD Economics (Aberdeen)

- development and application of methods of economic evaluation

- economics and health care priority setting

- conceptualising and evidencing microfinance and social business/enterprise as complex, community-based public health initiatives