Dr Tessa Peasgood

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Senior Lecturer in Health Economics

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t.peasgood@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Tessa Peasgood
School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
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I am a mixed methods researcher based in the SCHARR Outcomes team.

I joined University of Sheffield in 2008 following my PhD in economics at Imperial College, London. Between 2020 and 2023 I worked at the University of Melbourne where I continue to hold an honorary position.


 

Research interests

My research interests fall into four main areas:

1. Measuring and valuing health and wellbeing. Including instrument development, qualitative research, psychometric data analysis and collecting and modelling preference data used to generate Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs).
2. Exploring the determinants of wellbeing, and use of wellbeing and subjective wellbeing as an outcome measure for public policy evaluation and priority setting.
3. Economic evaluation; specifically identifying and using utility values within health technology appraisal (HTA).
4. Understanding the social value of health gains and public preferences towards the distribution of health gains.
 

Publications

Edited books

  • Posner EA & Sunstien CR (Ed.) (2010) Law and Happiness. University Of Chicago Press.

Journal articles

  • Bailey C, Trapani K, Davies JN, Van Dam N, Galante J & Peasgood T (2025) . Quality of Life Research.
  • Keetharuth A, Mukuria C, Peasgood T & Wailoo A (2025) . Value in Health.
  • Franklin M, Peasgood T & Tennant PWG (2025) . Quality of Life Research, 34(8), 2175-2187.
  • Bailey C & Peasgood T (2025) . The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.
  • Engel L, Belay YB, Peasgood T, Devlin N, Viney R, Dow B, Gilbert A, Batchelor F & Mulhern B (2025) . Value in Health, 28(9), 1361-1369.
  • Bailey C, Dalziel K, Constable L & Peasgood T (2025) . Value in Health, 28(9), 1370-1379.
  • Peasgood T, Devlin N, Ludwig K, Marten O, McDool E, Schneider P, Shah K & Mukuria C (2025) . Quality of Life Research, 34(8), 2269-2278.
  • Varian F, Burney R, Pearson C, Goh ZM, Newman J, Rawlings G, Zafar H, Kiely DG, Thompson AAR, Condliffe R , Toshner M et al (2025) . European Respiratory Review, 34(176).
  • Bailey C, Peasgood T, Michalowsky B & Engel L (2025) . Value in Health, 28(8), 1221-1230.
  • De Silva A, van Heusden A, Lang Z, Devlin N, Norman R, Dalziel K, Peasgood T & Pan T (2025) . PharmacoEconomics, 43(7), 723-740.
  • Moolla A, Schneider P, Marten O, Mukuria C & Peasgood T (2025) . The European Journal of Health Economics, 26(7), 1175-1190.
  • Powell P, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Chandler F, Godfrey F & Reuben E (2025) . Quality of Life Research, 34(6), 1579-1585.
  • Gilbert AS, Batchelor F, Devlin N, Dow B, Mulhern B, Viney R, Peasgood T & Engel L (2025) . The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 18(3), 211-223.
  • Bailey C, Dalziel K, Constable L, Devlin NJ, Hiscock H, Skouteris H & Peasgood T (2025) . The European Journal of Health Economics, 26(1), 7-21.
  • Muchadeyi MT, Hernandez-Villafuerte K, Di Tanna GL, Eckford R, Feng Y, Meregaglia M, Peasgood T, Petrou S, Ubels J & Schlander M (2024) . International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 40(S1), S52-S52.
  • Engel L, Bailey C, Bogatyreva E, Batchelor F, Devlin N, Dow B, Gilbert AS, Mulhern B, Viney R & Peasgood T (2024) . The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 17(6), 673-683.
  • Schneider P, Ludwig K, Marten O, McDool E, Peasgood T, Devlin N, Shah K, Brazier J, Greiner W & Mukuria C (2024) . Wellcome Open Research, 9.
  • Peasgood T, Bailey C, Chen G, De Silva A, De Silva Perera U, Norman R, Shah K, Viney R & Devlin N (2024) . PLOS ONE, 19(6).
  • McDool E, Mukuria C & Peasgood T (2024) . Value in Health, 27(9), 1215-1224.
  • Muchadeyi MT, Hernandez-Villafuerte K, Di Tanna GL, Eckford RD, Feng Y, Meregaglia M, Peasgood T, Petrou S, Ubels J & Schlander M (2024) . PharmacoEconomics, 42, 767-782.
  • Feng Y-S, Kohlmann T, Peasgood T, Engel L, Mulhern B & Pickard AS (2024) . Quality of Life Research, 33(5), 1211-1222.
  • Bailey C, Dalziel K, Jones R, Hiscock H, Devlin NJ & Peasgood T (2024) . PharmacoEconomics, 42(S1), 163-179.
  • Peasgood T, Howell M, Raghunandan R, Salisbury A, Sellars M, Chen G, Coast J, Craig JC, Devlin NJ, Howard K , Lancsar E et al (2024) . PharmacoEconomics, 42(2), 177-198.
  • Muchadeyi M, Hernandez-Villafuerte K, Di Tanna GL, Eckford R, Feng Y, Meregaglia M, Peasgood T, Petrou S, Ubels J & Schlander M (2023) . Value in Health, 26(12), S501-S502.
  • Engel L, Kosowicz L, Bogatyreva E, Batchelor F, Devlin N, Dow B, Gilbert AS, Mulhern B, Peasgood T & Viney R (2023) . The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 16(6), 655-666.
  • Sheen D, Peasgood T & Goranitis I (2023) . Clinical Therapeutics, 45(8), 710-718.
  • Peasgood T, Bourke M, Devlin N, Rowen D, Yang Y & Dalziel K (2023) . Social Science and Medicine, 323.
  • Mukuria C, Peasgood T, McDool E, Norman R, Rowen D & Brazier J (2023) . Value in Health, 26(7), 1073-1084.
  • Peasgood T, Caruana JM & Mukuria C (2023) . The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 16(3), 201-221.
  • Ervin J, Taouk Y, Fleitas Alfonzo L, Peasgood T & King T (2022) . eClinicalMedicine, 53.
  • Khanna D, Khadka J, Mpundu-Kaambwa C, Lay K, Russo R, Ratcliffe J, Devlin N, Norman R, Viney R, Ratcliffe J , Dalziel K et al (2022) . PharmacoEconomics, 40(11), 1043-1067.
  • Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A & Wailoo A (2022) Should we consider including a value for ‘hope’ as an additional benefit within HTA?. Value in Health, 25(9), 1619-1623.
  • Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A & Wailoo A (2022) . Value in Health, 25(9), 1619-1623.
  • Zhang Y, He C, Peasgood T, Hulse ESG, Fairley CK, Brown G, Ofori‐Asenso R & Ong JJ (2022) . Journal of the International AIDS Society, 25(4).
  • Carlton J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Johnson J, Ogden M & Tovey W (2022) . Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 6(1).
  • Brazier J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Marten O, Kreimeier S, Luo N, Mulhern B, Pickard AS, Augustovski F, Greiner W , Engel L et al (2022) . Value in Health, 25(4), 482-491.
  • Carlton J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Connell J, Brazier J, Ludwig K, Marten O, Kreimeier S, Engel L, Belizán M , Yang Z et al (2022) . Value in Health, 25(4), 512-524.
  • Mukuria C, Connell J, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Scope A, Clowes M, Rand S, Jones K & Brazier J (2022) . Value in Health, 25(4), 492-511.
  • Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Brazier J, Marten O, Kreimeier S, Luo N, Mulhern B, Greiner W, Pickard AS, Augustovski F , Engel L et al (2022) . Value in Health, 25(4), 525-533.
  • Peasgood T, Bhardwaj A, Brazier JE, Biggs K, Coghill D, Daley D, Cooper CL, De Silva C, Harpin V, Hodgkins P , Nadkarni A et al (2021) . Journal of Attention Disorders, 25(14), 1962-1976.
  • Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Carlton J, Connell J & Brazier J (2021) . Quality of Life Research, 30(5), 1425-1432.
  • Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Carlton J, Connell J, Devlin N, Jones K, Lovett R, Naidoo B, Rand S, Rejon-Parrilla JC , Rowen D et al (2021) . European Journal of Health Economics, 22(7), 1067-1081.
  • Peasgood T, Chang J-Y, Mir R, Mukuria C & Powell P (2021) . Quality of Life Research, 30(7), 2097-2108.
  • Carlton J, Peasgood T, Khan S, Barber R, Bostock J & Keetharuth AD (2020) . Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 4(1).
  • Curtis S, Congdon P, Atkinson S, Corcoran R, MaGuire R & Peasgood T (2020) . Wellbeing, Space and Society, 1, 100009-100009.
  • Fibert P, Peasgood T & Relton C (2019) . European Journal of Pediatrics, 178(7), 983-993.
  • Peasgood T, Carlton J & Brazier J (2019) . Economies, 7(1).
  • Fibert P, Relton C, Peasgood T & Daley D (2018) . Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4.
  • Brazier J, Rowen DL, Karimi M, Peasgood T, Tsuchiya A & Ratcliffe J (2018) . European Journal of Health Economics, 19(6), 881-891.
  • Ara R, Brazier J, Peasgood T & Paisley S (2017) . PharmacoEconomics, 35(Supp 1), 43-55.
  • Ara RM, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Chevrou-Severac H, Rowen D, Azzabi-Zouraq I, Paisley S, Young T, van Hout B & Brazier J (2017) . PharmacoEconomics, 35(Suppl 1), 7-9.
  • Peasgood T, Brennan A, Mansell P, Elliott J, Basarir H & Kruger J (2016) . Medical Decision Making, 38(8), 1020-1033.
  • Peasgood T, Bhardwaj A, Biggs K, Brazier JE, Coghill D, Cooper CL, Daley D, De Silva C, Harpin V, Hodgkins P , Nadkarni A et al (2016) . European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 25(11), 1217-1231.
  • Peasgood T & Brazier J (2015) . PharmacoEconomics, 33(11), 1101-1105.
  • Heller S, Lawton J, Amiel S, Cooke D, Mansell P, Brennan A, Elliott J, Boote J, Emery C, Baird W , Basarir H et al (2014) . Programme Grants for Applied Research, 2(5).
  • Brazier J, Connell J, Papaioannou D, Mukuria C, Mulhern B, Peasgood T, Lloyd MJ, Paisley S, O’Cathain A, Barkham M , Knapp M et al (2014) . Health Technology Assessment, 18(34).
  • Dolan P, Lee H & Peasgood T (2012) . Pharmacoeconomics, 30(11), 1035-1049.
  • Dolan P, Lee H & Peasgood T (2012) Losing Sight of the Wood for the Trees. PharmacoEconomics, 30(11), 1035-1049.
  • Peasgood T, Ward SE & Brazier J (2010) . Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res, 10(5), 553-566.
  • Peasgood T, Herrmann K, Kanis JA & Brazier JE (2009) . Osteoporos Int, 20(6), 853-868.
  • Dolan P, Peasgood T & White M (2008) . J ECON PSYCHOL, 29(1), 94-122.
  • Dolan P & Peasgood T (2007) . BRIT J CRIMINOL, 47(1), 121-132.
  • Dolan P, Loomes G, Peasgood T & Tsuchiya A (2005) . BRIT J CRIMINOL, 45(6), 958-976.
  • Roderick P, Low J, Day R, Peasgood T, Mullee MA, Turnbull JC, Villar T & Raftery J (2001) . Age Ageing, 30(4), 303-310.
  • Al-Samarrai S & Peasgood T (1998) Educational attainments and household characteristics in Tanzania. ECON EDUC REV, 17(4), 395-417.
  • De Silva A, Bailey C, Devlin N, Norman R, Pan T & Peasgood T () . PLOS One, 20(10), e0319227-e0319227.
  • Schulz A, Jain M, Butt T, Ballinger R, Eliasson L, Macey J, Peasgood T, Olaye A, Terzakis-Snyder I-A, Dyck I & West A () . Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening, 8.
  • Brazier J, Connell J, Papaioannou D, Mukuria C, Mulhern B, Peasgood T, Lloyd MJ, Paisley S, O’Cathain A, Barkham M , Knapp M et al () .

Book chapters

  • Peasgood T (2023) , Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 2305-2308). Springer International Publishing
  • Peasgood T (2014) , Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 2092-2096). Springer Netherlands
  • Chen Y-F (2014) , Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 1733-1735). Springer Netherlands
  • Dolan P & Peasgood T (2010) Measuring Well-being for Public Policy: Preferences or Experiences? In Posner EA & Sunstein CR (Ed.), Law and Happiness (pp. 5-31). University Of Chicago Press

Conference proceedings

  • Carlton J, Powell P, Peasgood T, Chandler F, Godfrey J & Reuben E (2024) Changes are needed to adequately assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in informal carers of children with rare progressive life-limiting conditions: key learnings from a collaborative workshop. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 33 (pp S23-S23)
  • Carlton J, Powell P, Peasgood T, Chandler F, Godfrey J & Reuben E (2024) CURRENT METHODS OF ASSESSING HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQoL) IN INFORMAL CARERS OF CHILDREN WITH RARE PROGRESSIVE LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS ARE INADEQUATE: FINDINGS FROM A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT HERCULES WORKSHOP. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 27(12)
  • Muchadeyi M, Hernandez-Villafuerte K, Di Tanna GL, Eckford R, Feng Y, Meregaglia M, Peasgood T, Petrou S, Ubels J & Schlander M (2023) DEVELOPMENT OF A QUALITY APPRAISAL TOOL FOR SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEWS OF STUDIES ELICITING HEALTH STATE UTILITY VALUES (HSUVS): A DELPHI CONSENSUS APPROACH. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 26(12) (pp S501-S502)
  • Mukuria C, Peasgood T, McDool E, Norman R, Rowen D & Brazier JE (2022) VALUATION OF THE EQ HEALTH AND WELL-BEING SHORT USING TIME TRADE-OFF AND DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 25(12) (pp S413-S413)
  • Powell P, Chang J-Y, Mukuria C & Peasgood T (2019) The role of context and label in participants' quantitative interpretation of common quality of life PROM response options. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 28 (pp S136-S137)
  • (2019) . Quality of Life Research, Vol. 28(S1) (pp 1-190)
  • Pickard AS, Monteiro A, Kuharic M, Mukuria C, Peasgood T & Brazier J (2019) Extending the QALY project in the United States: face and content validity of items for a new preference-based measure. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 28 (pp S165-S165)
  • Carlton J, Peasgood T, Khan S, Barber R, Bostock J & Keetharuth AD (2019) Optimising patient and public involvement in Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) development. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 28 (pp S38-S39)
  • Mukuria C, Connell J, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Brazier J, Scope A, Clowes M & Jones K (2018) . Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S110-S110)
  • Connell J, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Brazier J, Augustovski F, Belizan M, Engel L, Greiner W, Hanna L , Ludwig K et al (2018) Extending the QALY: developing and testing the proposed items for a new generic measure - results from qualitative review and face validity with patients, social care users and carers. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 27 (pp S189-S189)
  • Brazier J, Mukuria CW, Peasgood T & Bjorner JB (2016) . Value in Health, Vol. 19(7) (pp A389-A389)
  • Mukuria C, Brazier J & Peasgood T (2015) Does EQ-5D-5L account for the impact of limitations in activities of daily livings (ADLS) on social care outcomes, capabilities and well-being?. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 24 (pp 179-179)
  • Papaioannou D, Peasgood T, Brazier J & Parry G (2011) . VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 14(7) (pp A239-A239)
  • Peasgood T, Ward SE & Brazier J (2011) . VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 14(7) (pp A462-A462)
  • Dolan P & Peasgood T (2008) Measuring Well-Being for Public Policy: Preferences or Experiences?. JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES, Vol. 37 (pp S5-S31)

Reports

  • Donna R, Brazier J, Hill H, Keetharuth A, Mukuria C, Peasgood T, Wailoo A, Wong R & Hill J (2022) Scoping, assessing feasibility, preliminary research and prioritising projects for the outcome measurement and valuation
  • Chambers D, Cantrell A, Preston L, Peasgood T, Paisley S & Clowes M (2018) Systematic review of the evidence on housing interventions for ‘housing-vulnerable’ adults and its relationship to wellbeing
  • Rowen DL, Brazier J, Tsuchiya A, Peasgood T, Ratcliffe J & Karimi M (2017) Experience-based utility and own health state valuation: why do it and how to do it
  • Mukuria C, Rowen D, Peasgood T & Brazier JE (2016) An empirical comparison of well-being measures used in the UK
  • Peasgood T, Brazier JE, Mukuria C & Rowen D (2014) A conceptual comparison of well-being measures used in the UK

Posters

  • Mukuria C, Peasgood T, Brazier J, Rowen D & Norman R (2020) E-QALY: valuing the items for a new generic preference-based measure using time trade-off and discrete choice experiments.

Working papers

  • Peasgood T, Roberts J & Tsuchiya A (2006) Incapacity Benefit: A Health or Labour Market Phenomenon?.

Other

  • Brazier J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Luo N, Mulhern B, Pickard AS, Augustovski F, Greiner W & Engel L (2023) . Value in Health, 26(3), 437-440.

Preprints

  • De Silva A, Bailey C, Devlin N, Norman R, Pan T & Peasgood T (2025) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Varian F, Burney R, Pearson C, Goh ZM, Newman J, Rawlings G, Zafar H, Kiely DG, Thompson AAR, Condliffe R , Toshner M et al (2024) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Mukuria C, Peasgood T & Brazier J () Applying EuroQol Portable Valuation Technology to the EQ Health and Wellbeing Short (EQHWB-S) : a pilot study.
  • Zhang Y, He C, Peasgood T, Hulse ESG, Fairley C, Brown G, Ofori-Asenso R & Ong JJ () .
Research group

SCHARR Outcomes

Teaching interests

My teaching interests include measuring and valuing health, economic evaluation methods and health care finance.

I am interested in supervising research students in topics related to the development, testing, and use of preference-based measures.
 

Teaching activities

I am module lead for 'Economic evaluation and health care finance' (HAR687) and co-module lead on 'Valuing the benefits of health care' (HAR694).

Professional activities and memberships

I am a member of the EuroQol group, and deputy chair of their Descriptive Systems Working Group.