Penny Breeze

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Senior Research Fellow

Postgraduate Research Lead for Population Health

Penny Breeze
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p.breeze@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5429

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Penny Breeze
School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

Penny joined SCHARR in 2009 as a PhD student and more recently working as a health economics modeller. The subject of her thesis was to investigate the use of health economic models to develop drug development programmes for new treatments for systemic lupus erythematosus.

Before working in SCHARR, Penny was working as a health economics consultant at IMS Health developing cost-effectiveness models for pharmaceutical products. Since working at SCHARR Penny has been working various projects centred to evaluate the health and economic impact of strategies for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Qualifications

PhD University of Sheffield

Research interests

Dr. Penny Breeze is a health economist at the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR). Her work is primarily focused on using mathematical modelling to evaluate the long-term health benefits and cost-effectiveness of public health interventions, particularly those targeting obesity and chronic diseases. Dr Breeze is working across projects to evaluate the impact of food taxes, advertising restrictions and calorie labelling on menus. She has also evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the UK National Diabetes Prevention Programme and other targeted weight-management schemes for those living with obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Breeze is a specialist in microsimulation modelling, a method that moves beyond aggregate population data to capture how different people respond uniquely to the same policy. She is interested in the integration of Complex Systems Thinking into economic evaluations and developing models that account for systemic influences on policy outcomes. 

Publications

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Journal articles

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Journal articles

Conference proceedings

Reports

  • Hill J, Breeze P, Chrysanthou G, Bell H & Brennan A (2019) Summary report of the Health and Labour Outcomes (HaLO) Tool RIS download Bibtex download
  • Breeze PR, Thomas C, Squires H, Brennan A, Greaves C, Diggle P, Brunner E, Tabak A, Preston L & Chilcott J (2015) SPHR Diabetes Prevention Model: Detailed Description of Model Background, Methods, Assumptions and Parameters View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Software, code or databases

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Preprints

Research group

Health Economics and Decision Science

Grants
  • National Institute of Health Research. 'Evaluation of the Nursery Milk Scheme in England'
  • National Institute of Health Research: Public Health Research, ‘Impact of food environment policies and food insecurity on less healthy food consumption, obesity and health economic outcomes – a model-based appraisal’. 
  • National Institute of Health Research: School for Public Health Research. ‘Economic Evaluation of Calorie Labelling on out of home purchases - HPHP Food Systems Theme.’
  • National Institute of Health Research: Programme Grants for Applied Research, ‘Supporting Weight Management (SwIM): Evaluating the equity and cost-effectiveness of using acceptance-based guided self-help to improve long term outcomes of weight management interventions"’.
  • National Institute of Health Research: Public Health Research, ‘Health Economic Analysis incorporating effects on Labour outcomes, Households, Environment and Inequalities (HEALTHEI) for food taxes’.
  • National Institute of Health Research: Programme Grants for Applied Research, ‘New remission care pathway: Diabetes Adaptive Weight management Network "NewDAWN"’.
  • Population Health Agent-Based Simulation Network (PHASE). ‘Developing a proof-of-concept agent-based model of the relationship between food advertising and food choices in England’ .
  • National Institute of Health Research: Health Technology Appraisal, ‘Dietary Approaches to the Management Of type 2 Diabetes (DIAMOND) cluster randomised trial"’, £459,955.61, Co- investigator, 2021-2024.
  • National Institute of Health Research School for Public Health Research, Efficient and Equitable Public Health Systems ‘Evaluating the efficiency and equity impact of food policies to improve population health’.
  • National Institute of Health Research School for Public Health Research, Efficient and Equitable Public Health Systems ‘Develop and applying reporting guidelines for efficiency, equity and systems approaches’.
  • Wellcome Trust. ‘Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health, Economics and Decision Science (PHEDS): Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and prevention strategies that reduce noncommunicable disease burden and health inequity’.
  • National Institute of Health Research: Programme Grants for Applied Research, ‘Scalable behavioural weight management programme for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes’.
Professional activities and memberships

Member of the Association for the Study of Obesity

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