Chris Henshall works as an independent consultant, advising governments, public and private sector organisations on health, research and innovation policy. He was the Founding President of Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) and is currently Chair of the HTAi Policy Forum and a Board member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Authority, an Associate Professor in the Health Economics Research Group at Brunel University, and an honorary Fellow in the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York.
Chris has worked previously for the Health Promotion Research Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, the Department of Health and NHS in England (where he was involved in establishing the NHS R&D Budget, the NHS HTA Programme and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), the Department of Trade and Industry (where he was responsible for UK science and innovation policy and funding), and the University of York (where he was responsible for promoting enterprise and innovation and links with the economy, government and businesses at home and overseas).
In addition to his work on health policy and on innovation and economic development, Chris has been involved for many years as a “policy customer” in work to assess the payback from research, and has worked on various projects with HERG at Brunel, RAND Europe and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.