Sarah Byford


Sarah Byford is a British economist. She is the André professor of health economics and director of King's Health Economics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. She specialises in the economic evaluation of mental health services and clinical and economic evaluation of complex interventions, including services for children and adolescents.
She is a senior economics advisor at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee, Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry and a Mental Health Review Journal editorial board member.

Academic career

Byford began her academic career by completing a BSc in economics at Brunel University. She continued her education by attaining an MSc, first in health economics and then health sciences at the University of York. Byford was awarded her PhD in health economics at King's College, London in 2009.

Editorial roles

Byford holds key editorial roles at a number of journals: