Joanne Gray

Professor Joanne Gray

Professor

School: Healthcare and Nursing Sciences

I am an experienced health economist with special interests in economic evaluation of health & social care interventions and priority setting methods to help underpin commissioning processes.

Campus Address

Coach Lane Campus West, B Block
51��
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7XA

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Key Publications

Case-mix-adjusted mean number of polyps per 100 procedures: a new candidate gold standard colonoscopy key performance indicator, Catlow, J., Lu, L., Sharp, L., Rutter, M., Ogundimu, E., McCarthy, S., Gray, J. 2 May 2025, In: BMJ Open Gastroenterology
Health Inequalities in Crisis Times: Questions for Global Health Governance, Crawshaw, P., Gray, J. 16 Oct 2025, In: International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
Improving local authority financial support services for users with complex health needs: a mixed-method economic evaluation of Social Navigators in South Tyneside, UK, Van der Graaf, P., McCarthy, A., Subramanian, M., Arnott, B., Samarakoon, D., Lee, S., Gray, J., Bate, A. 2025, In: BMJ Open Quality
Lifting the smoke screen on economic inactivity, Crawshaw, P., Gray, J. 1 Oct 2025, In: The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Mechanisms to support interventions involving the police when responding to persons experiencing a mental health crisis: A realist review, Redgate, S., Clibbens, N., Haighton, C., Dalkin, S., Bate, A., Girling, M., McCarthy, S., Eagles, T., Gray, J., McKinnon, I. 10 May 2025, In: Health & Social Care in the Community
North of England Women’s Diet and ActivitY - After Breast Cancer (NEWDAY-ABC) intervention in women diagnosed with early oestrogen-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer: a randomised controlled feasibility study, Wilson, C., Pickering, K., Wane, S., Cohen, J., Huang, C., Northgraves, M., Crank, H., Anderson, A., Cain, H., Copeland, R., Gray, J., Hargreaves, J., McNally, R., Saxton, J. 7 Aug 2025, In: Pilot and Feasibility Studies
P124 Influence of deprivation on COPD patients with respiratory acidaemia requiring non-invasive ventilation, Naseer, M., Brewin, K., Pakpahan, E., Gray, J., McCarthy, S., Bourke, S. Nov 2025, In: Thorax
Quantifying the cost savings and health impacts of improving colonoscopy quality: an economic evaluation, McCarthy, S., Rutter, M., McMeekin, P., Catlow, J., Sharp, L., Brookes, M., Valori, R., Bhardwaj-Gosling, R., Lee, T., McNally, R., McCarthy, A., Gray, J. 19 Jun 2025, In: BMJ Quality & Safety
S3 Standard versus accelerated weaning from non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease directed by the NIV outcomes score: a randomised controlled trial, Brewin, K., Naseer, M., Arries, R., Lane, N., Scadding, A., Ghosh, D., Prudon, B., Sovani, M., Hartley, T., McCarthy, S., Gray, J., Pakpahan, E., Bourke, S. Nov 2025, In: Thorax

Current and Recent Projects

Police involvement in interagency crisis mental health first response pathways in England: A realist and cost consequence analysis (PIONEER-MH), Clibbens, N. (Principal Investigator), Gray, J. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/04/25 - 30/11/27, £781,508.00
Developing an NIHR Health and Social care Delivery Research (HSDR) national evaluation team: InterDisciplinary Evaluation of complex innovations in heAlth and Social care (IDEAS) Centre, Bate, A. (Principal Investigator), Gray, J. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/02/25 - 31/01/30, £3,028,752.00
Early Aortic Repair in patients Needing Endovascular/open Surgery for Type B Aortic Dissection (EARNEST): A randomised trial to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of thoracic endovascular aortic repair in the subacute phase, Gray, J. (Principal Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/09/24 - 28/02/34, £210,136.00
Building and Evidencing Community Asset Partnerships in Housing and Health to address Health Disparities in North East North Cumbria, Lhussier, M. (Principal Investigator), Gray, J. (Co Investigator), UK Research and Innovation, 01/11/22 - 31/07/23, £195,356.00
tNIVOW - Standard versus accelerated weaning from non-invasive ventilation in COPD directed by the NIV Outcomes score, Gray, J. (Principal Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/08/22 - 31/07/25, £55,043.00

Karen Brewin Standard versus accelerated weaning from non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease directed by the NIVO score: a randomised controlled trial (NIVOW) Start Date: 01/10/2023