DORTE GYRD-HANSEN
MSc (University of York, UK), MSc PhD (Odense University)
T: +61 7 3346 4832
F: +61 7 3346 4603
E: dgh@dsi.dk

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen is Professor of Health Economics at The University of Queensland as well as at the University of Southern Denmark.  Her primary academic interests are in preference elicitation and behavioral economics.  In recent years she has worked extensively with risk communication and valuation of health care benefits.  She has wide experience with cross-disciplinary work and has worked extensively on long term projects with people representing epidemiology, medicine and sociology.  Alongside her research activities she has extensive teaching experience in the topic of economic evaluation and health economics.

Selected publications

Gyrd-Hansen D and Kjær T, "Disentangling WTP per QALY data: Different analytical approaches, different answers", Health Economics (in press)

Gyrd-Hansen D, Halvorsen P, Nexøe J, Nielsen J, Støvring H and Kristiansen I, "Joint and separate evaluation of risk reduction: Impact on sensitivity to risk reduction magnitude in the context of 4 different risk information formats", Medical Decision Making, Vol.31 No.1, January/February 2011, E1-E10 (web only article) (Abstract)

Desser AS, Gyrd-Hansen D, Olsen JA, Grepperud S and Kristiansen IS, "Societal views on orphan drugs: Cross sectional survey of Norwegians aged 40 to 67", British Medical Journal, 22 September 2010, 341:c4715. (download)

Kvamme KM, Gyrd-Hansen D, Olsen JA and Kristiansen IS, "Increasing marginal utility of small increases in life-expectancy? Results from a population survey", Journal of Health Economics, Vol.29 No.4, July 2010, pp.541-8. (Preview)

Mørkbak M, Christensen T and Gyrd-Hansen D, "Consumer preferences for safety characteristics in pork", British Food Journal, Vol. 112 No. 7, June 2010, pp.775-91. (Abstract)

Sørensen TH, Olsen KR and Gyrd-Hansen D, "Differences in general practice initiated expenditures across Danish local health authorities – a multilevel analysis", Health Policy, Vol.92 No.1, September 2009, pp.35-42. (Abstract)

Olsen KR, Gyrd-Hansen D, Hartung-Hansen S and Bøgh A, "GPs as citizens’ agents: Prescription behaviour and altruism", European Journal of Health Economics, Vol.10 No.4, October 2009, pp.399-407. (Abstract)

Højgaard B, Srensen T, Olsen KR, Søgaard J and Gyrd-Hansen D, "Economic cost of abdominal obesity", Obesity Facts. The European Journal of Obesity, Vol.1 No.3, June 2008, pp.146-54. (download)

Gyrd-Hansen D and Kristiansen IS, "Preferences for ‘life-saving’ programmes: Small for all or gambling for the prize? ", Health Economics, Vol.17 No.6, June 2008, pp.709-20. (Abstract)

Gyrd-Hansen D, Halvorsen PA and Kristiansen IS, "Willingness-to-pay for a statistical life in the times of a pandemic", Health Economics, Vol.17 No.1, January 2008, pp.55-66. (Abstract)

Kjær T, Bech M, Gyrd-Hansen D and Hart-Hansen K, "Ordering effect and price sensitivity in discrete choice experiments: Need we worry? ", Health Economics, Vol.15 No.11, November 2006, pp.1217-28. (Abstract)

Bech M and Gyrd-Hansen D, "Effects coding in discrete choice experiments", Health Economics, Vol.14 No.10, October 2005, pp.1079-83. (Abstract)

Gyrd-Hansen D, "Investigating the social value of health changes", Journal of Health Economics, Vol.23 No.6, February 2004, pp.1101-16. (Preview)

Kristiansen IS and Gyrd-Hansen D, "Cost effectiveness analysis based on the number-needed-to-treat: Common sense or non-sense?", Health Economics, Vol.13 No.1, January 2004, pp.9-19. (Abstract)

Gyrd-Hansen D, "Willingness-to-pay-for a QALY", Health Economics, Vol.12 No.12, December 2003, pp.1049-60. (Abstract)